Seasons and verbs for ESL

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Teaching verbs with seasons vocabulary helps elementary ESL students describe actions and activities in different times of the year. Using visual materials and interactive activities allows students to connect grammar with real-life situations.

 There are many verbs related to each Season. First, here are the flashcards.

Sort Verbs by Season

Sort the Flashcards into Seasons on the blackboard.

Teacher: What season is this?

Students: It is Winter.

Teacher: What is he doing?

Students: He is building a snowman.

Ask and Answer Questions

Place each Season Flashcard on the blackboard. Have the students look into all the flashcards and find the Activities(Verbs) that can be done in each Season.

Teacher: What season is this?

Students: It is Fall.

Teacher: What do we do in the Fall?

Students: Play with the leaves, sit on the pumpkins, rake the leaves, and walk.

  Do the same with the other Seasons.

Practice CAN for Seasonal Activities

You can use many Verb Tenses with the flashcards. Start with CAN. Use the flashcards to model questions and sentences on the board.

   Or model Present Continuous.

                 Or you can introduce the simple past tense questions.

                                     

Maybe you can review the future.

Complete Worksheets

As in all the Seasons Units, there is a Sorting Worksheet.

And just two worksheets.

Students complete the worksheet. Then have them cut each picture and glue next to the sentences on their notebooks.

The other worksheet will be used as a BINGO template as well. Using either the colored flashcards placed on the board or the small cards used for the sorting, students write the activities that can be done and the ones that can’t be done in each Season, completing the worksheet in an allotted amount of time, maybe 5 minutes. Some students will have more verbs than others, but that is the idea. Then, announce the BINGO! Use the colored flashcards to call the Verbs. The students will cross out the verb word if they have it written down. The winner is the first one to cross out all the words.

Teaching clothes together with seasons helps students understand when to use vocabulary. It connects language to real-life situations and improves comprehension. Go to the blog post:    https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/03/seasons-and-clothes.html

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Seasons and Nature

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Seasons and nature activities help elementary ESL students connect vocabulary with the world around them. Using trees, animals, and seasonal visuals makes it easier for students to observe changes in nature while practicing speaking, sorting, spelling, and prepositions.

Introduce Seasons with Tree Flashcards

 Start with the trees flashcards in different seasons.

Sort Trees by Season

Place each Season Flashcard on the board and have the students name them. Then, have the students sort the trees into each season. Have them notice how they change with each season.

Teacher: What season is this ?

Students: It’s Winter!

Teacher: look at the tree. What happened with the leaves?

Students: There are no leaves!

And again the worksheet to sort the trees.

Use a Tree Craft for Speaking Practice

Cut the trees from the worksheet and make a small craft. I cut the toilet paper tubes into smaller rolls. Then, cut two slits on each one and place the tree. Ask questions:

Teacher: What season is this ?

Students: It's Winter.

Teacher: Dos the tree have leaves ?

Students: No, it doesn't.

Introduce the Nature vocabulary using the flashcards.

Introduce Nature Vocabulary, video!

Sort Nature Vocabulary by Season

Then, have the students sort them into each Season.

Teacher: What is this ?

Students: It’s a polar bear.

Teacher: What season do you see a polar bear ?

Students: In the Winter!

And another worksheet to sort the nature vocabulary.

Roll ,read and write (Spelling game). 

I saw this game on the mailbox.com. I gave it a twist. Distribute a die and the templates to each group. Hand in the nature cards template and the die template. Explain that each number represented on the die stands for the number of letters in a word. In each group, the students take turns to roll the die and choose a card from the template that has the corresponding number of letters that is on the die rolled. The student has to make a check mark on that word. The student reads the card to the group and they have to write the word under the corresponding column. Each word can be written only once.

Watch the videos on how to play.

Seasons and Nature Prepositions Game

This is an old game that I used to play 20 years ago. Yes, a very old game!! The aim is to review prepositions. I prepared a set of instructions for each team and some cutouts.

Make 2 groups.  When you say, "Go!" the students must read the slips of paper

and get the necessary cutouts to complete the task.

The first group who puts the proper number of things in the correct location wins.

Here are the four trees that the four groups should end up with. I made a blank template for you to write the instructions or even better, the students can write the instructions for themselves or for another group to accomplish.

 Seasons and Nature Prepositions Game, video:

Use Cutouts for More Seasonal Sorting

The cutouts can be used to sort them into Seasons using the McDonalds french fres container.

Use Cutouts for More Seasonal Sorting, video: 

Seasons and Weather Activities for Elementary ESL Students, go to the blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/03/seasons-and-weather.html

And there is still one last part for the Seasons Unit: Seasons and Verbs. Follow me! Please leave your comments.

Seasons and Clothes

Seasons and Clothes Activities for Elementary ESL Students for the Seasons pack, at this LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981

Teaching clothes and seasons vocabulary helps elementary ESL students describe what people wear in different weather conditions. Using visual materials, sorting activities, and hands-on tasks makes learning meaningful and connected to real-life situations.

 Start by reviewing all the clothes vocabulary using the flashcards provided.

Sort Clothes by Season

Have the students sort the people flashcards into each season.

                                       Teacher: What season is this ?

Students: SPRING!

Teacher: What is she wearing ?

Students: a t-shirt, a skirt and rain boots.

Teacher: What is this ?

Students: It’s an umbrella.

Teacher: When do you wear a scarf ?

Students: In the Winter.

Teacher: What do you wear in the Spring ?

Students: A raincoat.

                                            

Clothes Flashcards:

Have the students sort all the clothes flashcards into each season.

seasons clothing ESL lesson elementary learners,video!

Have the students sort the clothes out on the worksheet.

And sort out along with the weather and Months cutouts from last blog post using the fries containers.

Seasons and Clothes Worksheets! 

The frogs again, but this time Seasons and Clothes.

This is how students should complete the worksheets of the clothes according to the season.

But, that’s not all, have the students cut and paste the frogs on their notebooks. Then, write sentences according to their level.

I put all the notebook writing together into a book!

I made it all into a video.

This is the second worksheet for the reading ring that I presented last blog post. The students color the worksheet and then cut the strips and place it in the book ring.

An extra worksheet.

Have the students create a Venn Diagram. 

Students work in pairs. Assign each student a Season in which they will write about the clothes that are worn on their side of the Venn Diagram. And they write in the center of the Venn Diagram the clothes that are common for both seasons. They will have to discuss on the clothes that are common and the ones that are not. Assign different combination of Seasons.

Winter-Fall, Winter-Spring, Winter-Summer, Fall-Spring, Fall-Summer, Spring-Summer. Have the students present the results to the class.

There are the four Seasons Scenes for the students to complete the weather and dressing the child that will be pasted there. 

Write Sentences About Clothes

Included are the symbols of each season. It can be done as a group work. The students can write a text or do a show and tell about their season.

After the Seasons Scenes are reading, students can do free writing and create a poster.

These are games that you can play with the Seasons Unit or any other.

Word chain. 

Write a Season word on the board, e.g. Summer. Then the students have to say a word with the last letter of the word Summer, e.g. rain. This is a good warm up activity.

Spelling Game

Put a Season flashcard on the board and have teams or individuals make as many words as possible from those letters, e.g. Spring = S/sun, P/pants, R/rain, ,I/I, N/November, G/gloves.

Then, students write sentences using those words.

Teaching seasons with nature helps students notice visual changes in the environment and connect vocabulary with real-life observations, go to the blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/03/seasons-and-nature.html

                                

                             

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