Town Flashcards for ELL

Town Flashcards

I made 190 flashcards for the Town theme and included places, community, stores, land features, neighborhood, places for leisure activities. And here are several ideas to promote speaking using flashcards.

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                     This is the complete set of flashcards! The language objective is to learn the name of the places in a town.

Town Unit Flashcards 1. Demonstartives This and That. Use the point finger to introduce this and that.

Teacher: This is a bank. That is the cinema.

Hand in the point finger and using more flashcards, have the students say the sentences.

Town Unit Flashcards 2. Drill. Nominate an individual student to be the driller. The class or the group members have to read each flashcard.

Give the flashcards at individual students.

Teacher: Where are you ?

Student: I am at the police station. ( shows the card)This is the police station.

Town Unit Flashcards 3. Go to. I use my Commands Flashcards for this activity. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Commands-Flashcards-1816475

Place a flashcard on each seat or desk.

Teacher: Pam, run to the police station.

Teacher: Kim, Go to the hospital.

Town Unit Flashcards 4. Name more. Place several flashcards and have students name a place in your town or city. Write the place under each flashcard. Have the students make another list with more flashcards. Here I wrote examples of my hometown.

Town Unit Flashcards 5. Sort the flashcards by buildings, stores, work places,nature.

Town Unit Flashcards 6. Let´s go ! Have the students make sentences using Let´s go to.

Teacher: Let´s go to the museum!

Students: Let´s go to the park !

Town Unit Flashcards 7. There is ,  Guess game using interrogatives . Have 5 students come to the front and give a flashcard to each one and don´t let them show the flashcards to the class, but they do have to know what flashcards are playing. The class has to guess the buildings in town.

Students: Is there a library?

Student in the front: Yes, there is. (shows the card)

Students: Is there a museum?

Student in the front: No, there isn´t.

Town Unit Flashcards. Use of the structure There are to describe the town. Place several town flashcards on the board. Have a student come up one at a time and draw as you say. The students will draw the scene on their notebooks and write the sentences.

Teacher: There are two cars at the post office. There are four flowers at the restaurant. There are three giraffes at the zoo.

Town Unit Flashcards 8.  Where is the family? I added a set of family flashcards to make sentences with the town flashcards.

Teacher: Where is Mother ?

Students: Mother is in the shoe store.

Or, you place more place flashcards and tell students where the family members are and have them attach the corresponding flashcard.

Teacher: Father is in the restaurant.

Town Unit Flashcards 9. Where?. Place several flashcards on the board.  Draw Main Street and start asking questions.

Teacher: Excuse me, It is on Main Street, between the fire station and the library.

Teacher: Where is the library ?

Students: It is on Main Street, next to the hospital.

Town Unit Flashcards 10. Use of the adjectives On the left, on the right. Draw the street and arrows, place a flashcard on the right and another on the left.

Teacher: The bus station is on the right. The beauty salon is on the left.

Have students write questions to ask you about your street.

Student: Is there a bus stop ?
Teacher: No, there isn´t.

Flashcards 11. Where and what number? A good review for the numbers 1 to 20.

Place several flashcards on both sides of the road and add a write on each one.

Teacher: Where is the apartment building ?

Students: It´s on the right.

Teacher: What number is it ?

Students: It´s number 14.

Flashcards 12. Use of the preposition At the corner of. Draw a street intersection, if it is a known one of your town the better. Add the flashcards.

Teacher: The school is at the corner of First Avenue and Main Street.

Have the students draw more examples and write the sentences. Then dictate to a student that will go to the board and place the flashcards.

Flashcards 13. Draw a street on the board. Give a set of flashcards to several students. Have them place the cards in the correct position on the street. Give them a written text where the cards should go. The students have to discuss how to place them.

The shoe store is on Main Street. The clothing store is next to the shoe store.The Hotel is next to the shoe store. The shoe store is between the clothing store and the Hotel. The bowling alley is across the street. The planetarium is next to the bowling alley.

                                     

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