Pets Unit Small cards for Elementary ELL

These pet small cards are part of the pets unit for Elementary English Languge learners-Starters pack.  Newcomer Teacher can find the material great for planning, ready to download at the store.     LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015

 These **Pets Unit Small Cards** give teachers compact, ready-to-use visuals that make it easy for students to practise pet vocabulary actively — in games, matching, speaking drills, and stations. This is ideal for beginner ESL/ELL learners who need multiple exposures and repetition to master English vocabulary confidently.

Use these to introduce and develop animal vocabulary.

Introduce the verb to have in interrogative, affirmative and negative answers.

Hand in all the printable pets unit vocabulary small cards to the students and ask questions: What do you have?
Student: I have a dog.

Teacher: Do you have a cat?

Student: Yes, I do.

Do you have a fish?
Student: No, I don’t.

Speaking fluency. Students can describe the pet on the small cards.
Look, I have a mouse!

 Listening comprehension. Have your students develop their self-expression through movement using their body and/or mime as you show the small cards. Check how the students will reproduce animal movements maybe even using the sounds the pets make.
Teacher: Move like a fish!

Picture-to-word matching skills. Display the pet unit small cards and the word strips all mixed up on the board, a volunteer matches the picture to the written word.

Show all the flashcards, both pictures and word cards. Give nine children the words and bring them to the front of the class. Then, hand out the pictures around the class. The children with the pictures do not let the children with the words see their flashcard. The children with the words then have to find which children have the picture that corresponds to it by asking: Do you have a mouse?

Students can do sorting of the small cards on their own. Use the cards to review vocabulary related to the parts of the body of the pets.

Hand in several white boards with the sorting phrases written on each. It can be the size of the ears: big ears and small ears.

Use for Simple sentence building: The rabbit has big ears, but the cat has small ears.

 Sort the pets with 2 legs and 4 legs!

Sort the size of the tails: big or small/long or short.

Create your own grid for the tic tac toe game. Draw a grid on a piece of cardboard of 9 spaces arranged in 3x3.

When to Use These Small Cards

• Vocabulary introduction or review  

• Pair and small group activities  

• ESL centers / stations  

• Warm-ups / quick recall drills  

• Early finisher tasks

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