Transportation Flashcards for Elementary ELL

 This resource is included in the Transportation unit for Elementary ESL at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4049752

The resource helps students learn essential transportation-related words to improve their vocabulary. These flashcards provide clear, visual representations of transportation vocabulary, aiding comprehension and retention.

The flashcards can be used in vocabulary drills such as description of the vehicles: The train is red.

Flashcards encourage students to answer questions about the different types of transportation.

Teacher: Are there two cars?
Students: Yes, there are.

Flashcards work for counting.

Make your lessons more dynamic and fun, incorporating the sorting  the flashcards by land, sea, air activity.

Use any flashcards for small group or whole-class activities. Model an example using the demonstratives: this and that, these and those. Example: This is a boat and that is a ship.

Hand in several flashcards to the students and have them say their sentences to describe the vehicles.

Practice the grammar structure: “I like [transportation], but I don’t like [transportation].” to reinforce transportation vocabulary. Emphasize the” final s” to the nouns.

Teach and practice adjectives related to the vehicles (e.g., long, short, cheap, expensive, fast, slow, new, old, big, small).

Review the adjective words using your arms and hands. Stretch your arms for long and hold your hands closer for short. Practice by doing another sorting on the board, having the students select the corresponding flashcards for each adjective.

Sort by size using the adjectives of size: big/small. Practice the Adjectives of cost or value: cheap and expensive.

Equal Comparison (as…as)

Introduce the comparatives of adjectives (faster, slower, bigger, smaller). Teach the Spelling Rule: Add -er to the adjective: fast → faster

Practice the superlatives of the adjectives (the fastest, the slowest, the biggest, the smallest). Ask students to make sentences with other flashcards to describe the cars. This is the use of the adjectives of condition: new and old.

Students can physically move flashcards around to demonstrate prepositions.

Give students instructions: “The van is next to the bus.”

Ask where people are in the vehicles using the corresponding preposition. Have the learners write transport text.

Have students use the word “ by “ to describe how to go to different places.

The flashcards can be adapted for different verb tenses and structures.

Tell the students that we use these three main verbs for the vehicles. Place them on the board and create a mind map.

Teacher: I can drive a car.
Students: I can fly a plane.

Have students take turns making sentences answering with the present continuous.

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Calendar: days, Months, ordinal numbers Games

  This resource is included in -Calendar Unit Elementary ESL- https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Calendar-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-1722495

The Calendar Games make learning fun and interactive, keeping students motivated. The repetition and practice in an enjoyable format promoting teamwork and communication skills.

Calendar Bingo. Students will write the numbers 1 to 31 on the calendar and the month that you assign. Then, call out dates, and students mark them on their calendar template.

Teacher: Tuesday, 12^th.

Print the cards of the Calendar pocket chart. These can be used on the board as well. Have the students use the cards to listen to a Date and Match it to build correct dates.

Make two or more teams race to arrange the days of the week or months in the correct order using the cards.

Place the abbreviation card for Days and Months.

Print the cards and use the ones from above to complete the questions on each card.

Teacher: How many days are there in a month?
Students: 28 in Februrary and 30 or 31 in the others.

Teachers can use the resource for collaborative activities where students work together to arrange the letters to make a months or days crosswords.

Adding the days of the week crowns for your lower elementary students.

The durable and reusable nature of the cards makes them a valuable addition to any classroom for years to come.

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Calendar: days, Months, ordinal numbers Worksheets

 This resource is included in -Calendar Unit Elementary ESL- https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Calendar-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-1722495

Choose these ready-to-print worksheets to save preparation time. There are engaging exercises to keep students motivated while practicing days, months, and dates.

Most worksheets are suitable for group work, independent tasks, or homework assignments.

This worksheet is for differentiating between ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and their written forms (first, second, third) to strengthen both reading comprehension and spelling.

Dates in English are commonly written and spoken using ordinal numbers (e.g., June 1st, March 3rd, October 31st). Learning them helps students correctly read, say, and write dates in everyday contexts. Here is a practice worksheet.

Provide writing practice for the dates, reinforcing both spelling and number recognition.

Match full sentences like “It’s June 2^nd in this worksheet to help students build proper sentence structure and practice grammatical forms.

Number of days in each month Worksheet. Sorting activities as this one is to reinforce memorization of month lengths in a hands-on, interactive way. Students will cut the months of the year and paste where they belong. You can dictate the color of each month as a review: September is green!

Students identify and write the month or date for each holiday on this worksheet. Have the learners write sentences about the Holidays on their notebooks.

Students will practice forming complete answers for the question “When is…?” using “in (month)”, improving their grammar and sentence-building skills. There is a month list to cut and paste on the corresponding Holiday.

Encourage students to answer aloud (e.g., “The third month of the year is March”), supporting listening and speaking skills.

Crosswords require students to focus on the correct spelling of each month, helping them memorize tricky spellings (e.g., February, August).

Writing the words helps students memorize the correct spelling of the days and months. There are small calendar months to fill in this worksheet.

Writing by hand the vocabulary for this calendar unit on this worksheet activates motor memory and strengthens cognitive connections. If you are into crafting, cut the monsters, add a butterfly pin and a clip to play with the spinners.

Knowing the days and months is a core part of being able to understand and use a calendar. This worksheet is for sorting the vocabulary words.

Students are asked to recall and apply knowledge about the order of the months in this worksheet.

A question-and-answer worksheet with prompts develops language and calendar skills.

Find Ready-to-use lesson plans and activities to use with your students. They will learn through play and hands-on activities.

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