Face unit Flashcards for Elementary EFL

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The flashcards apply for a range of activities to include the 4 skills such as listening/speaking and reading/writing, but not leaving behind grammar and vocaubulary.

Facial features, adjectives for physical description

Introduce the physical appearance vocabulary.

Show a face part flashcard and have the students touch that part of the face and say the word. Listening the action helps internalize the new language.

Teacher: Touch your mouth! (Show the flashcard ) 

Play sit down. Show a facial feature flashcard as you say a statement.
Teacher: If you have gray hair, sit down! (Obviously no one will sit down)
If you have green eyes, sit down.
If you long red hair, sit down.
Continue with all the hair color /length and eyes. The winners will be the last one standing. Have the students say why they are the winners.
Students: He/she has short blonde hair and blue eyes.

Critical thinking is in use when students will analyse the flashcards. Practice the question word: What color?

Ask questions: What color is her hair?
Students: red!
Teacher: Does she have brown hair?
Students: Yes, she does.
Teacher: Does Tom have gray hair?
Students: No, he doesn’t.
Teacher: Who has blonde hair?
Students: Luca.

Discuss about hair length. Sort the flashcard by short and long.

Ask questions:
Teacher: Who has long hair?
Students: Sophia, Olivia, Emma and Amelia.
Teacher: Who has short hair?
Students: Owen.
Ask questions using color and length: Who has short blond hair?
Students: Ava.
Have your students describe themselves: I have long brown hair. Ask questions about their physical appearance.

You can continue working on this for more speaking practice with your students to gain confidence. Hand in the people mat to each student or group of students. Place it inside a clear plastic sheet for your students to check or write on it and erase it easily.
Describe a person and have the students guess the person and cross out on the mat: He has short black hair.
Students: Tom!
Have your students describe another person for the class to guess: She has long red hair!
students: Emma!
Then, students can play in pairs or small groups.

Play a little more with your students with these fun crazy hair flashcards. Kids have weird hairdo and colors. Say a sentence and students have to say the number of that person.

Teacher: She has purple hair!
Students: She’s number seven!
Say it backwards: Number twelve!
Teacher: He has orange hair.

Use the flashcards to graph from the color and length of the hair of the people in class and even more. Place them on the board and ask questions:
Who has black long hair?
Students: Olivia and Leny.

It can be graphing the curly and straight hair. Have the students come and stand under each flashcard and say how they look: I have straight hair.

And don’t miss graphing the eye color.

Next part will be the Face Unit small cards.

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