Present Continuous Small Cards for Elementary English Language Learners

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Handling and manipulating the Present Continuous small cards can make learning more interactive and engaging for the learners.

 

Cards can be used in sentence construction. Students pick a card and form a sentence using the Present Continuous tense, such as "She is doing homework."

Divide a large piece of paper or board into a grid with rows and columns. I used ABC and 123, you can make yours to suit your needs. Glue the small cards.

Students can a write sentence per grid- A1- He’s jumping rope.

Students can do Acting.  B2: DRINK! I am drinking coffee!

You can ask questions:  B1- Is she playing the guitar or the violin?

Students: She’s playing the violin.

Play BINGO. Students write 5 verbs or sentences from the grid. You call out the words or sentences. The first student to cross them out, wins.

Visual and tactile learning aids can help students better remember the structure and usage of the tense. Prepare a word display in an inflexible order. Just print the templates and assemble the display. I glued only the vertical spots on the horizontal structure. To put it together questions, just message me. Learners will move the strips to write the correct sentence to each small card.

Students can also write the sentences formed on their notebooks.

Find the use of the flashcards for teaching Present Continuous blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/07/present-continuous-flashcards-for.html

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https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/

Using flashcards for the presentation part of the lesson plan to teach English Language Learners

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Using flashcards will engage the visual learners. The pictures have to be clear to help the learners understand and memorize the new vocabualry presented.

Choose the flashcards that you want to highlight and reinforce through repetition.

Plan interactive activities to keep the interest in the new language. The flashcards are versatile, There are many games and dynamic speaking practice to add to the presentation part.

The flashcards will provide you with an easy assessment of understanding. You can see which words children are grasping and which ones need more planned activities for next class.

Flashcards are easy to carry around from one class to another and use in different classroom settings, such as a large class or smaller groups.

Flashcards can be used for Scaffolding Learning. Write more complex sentences activities to support all students.

And, the question is, what can I plan? Well, check the flashcards presentation activities ideas  video and start planning. Any help needed? Just text me through any social media.

Here are the flashcards activities for the presentation part for teaching Elementary English Learners.

After writing the presentation part, go to the practice section of the lesson plan:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/08/writing-practice-part-of-lesson-plan-to.html

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Present Continuous Flashcards for Elementary English Language Learners

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Teach the Present Continuous tense to describe actions that are happening right now. This helps ELLs talk about their immediate actions. Achieving this tense will help students describe their daily routines and activities

Activity 1. Show a flashcard and have the students do the action and say the word. Do the same with as many flashcards as you can.

Students: dancing! Dancing! (as they do the action).

Activity 2. Place the eat flashcards on the board. Designate a student a flashcard. Ask questions.
Teacher: Are you eating cake?
Student: Yes, I am.

Activity 3. Make a grid on the board using the flashcards.
Teacher: B2!
Student: Dancing. They are dancing.
Teacher: She is opening her locker.
Student: C3!.

Activity 4. Place several flashcards on the board and write the questions words: Who, What; Where?
Teacher: CLIMB!
Students: Where is he climbing?
Teacher: He is climbing in Bolivia.
Students: Who is climbing?
Teacher: Peter is climbing in Bolivia.
Students: What is he doing?
Teacher: He is climbing a mountain in Bolivia.

Have the students write questions on their notebooks using the flashcards as prompts.

Activity 5. Collocations. Place three flashcards on the board.
Teacher: What are they doing?
Students: They are sitting.
Teacher: Where is he sitting?
Students: He is sitting on a bench.  (write on a bench)
Continue with the other two. Tell students that adding words to a verb gives more details to a sentence in Present Continuous.

Activity 6. Now, place only one flashcard on the board. I used studying. Have the students dictate words to make more sentences.
Students: Math!
Teacher: She is studying Math.

Activity 7. Place the flashcards on the board and say a wrong sentence on purpose for each flashcard.
Teacher: She is eating spaghetti.
Students: No! She is eating a hamburger.

Activity 8. Students write a 3x3 Bingo board on their notebooks. Place all the action flashcards on the board that you are working on. Students choose 9 action words and write them on each square. Take away all the flashcards from the board, mix them up and start calling the verb flashcards as you show each one to the class. Students cross out the ones that they have, the first student to do it shouts BINGO!

Activity 9. Routines. Place the get up flashcard on the board and mime getting up. Have the students mime getting up and say the sentence: I am getting up. Continue with more daily routines as you place the flashcards on the board.

Point to each flashcard and ask questions.
Teacher: What is he doing?.
Student 1: He is making his bed.
Say a name of a flashcard in random order and have a student come up and point to it and say a sentence.
Teacher: take!
Student 1: He is taking a shower. ( pointing to the flashcard)

 Present progressive spelling.

Here is a video with all the flashcards included in the resource:

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Writing the presentation part of the lesson plan to teach English Language Learners

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The presentation part of a lesson plan for teaching English Language Learners (ELLs) involves the Objective Statement previously written.

It should link the new content to what students already know.

It is Presenting the new material using suitable tools and techniques. Show the new language or grammar point in context. Use flashcards or realia. Plan an activity to capture students' interest.

Use the flashcards: For introducing  the new vocabular,For repetition,For contextualization,For drilling,For games,For question and answer,For Reinforcement.

§  Use Colorful and Clear Images on the flashcards that you choose.

§  Engage All Students

§  Combine with Other Materials: Use flashcards in conjunction with songs, stories, and real objects to provide a multi-sensory learning experience.

I highly suggest using flashcards for this part, check the ideas and videos:          https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/07/using-flashcards-for-presentation-part.html

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Furniture in the House Book for Elementary ELLs

 This resource is part of the House Furniture for Elementary ESL, at my store:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/House-Furniture-unit-for-Elementary-ESL-3420723

Instead of a printable book, I propose creating a furniture catalog. It will help them learn vocabulary related to furniture, by cutting and pasting the items in the template. You can also use the other template which are blank for the students to draw the furniture or cut from magazine, in order to practice their descriptive skills, and improve their overall language proficiency.

There is a cover page for the students to decorate.

There are pages for the furniture in the Living Room, Bedroom, Dining room, Kitchen, Bathroom and a black frame for you to add any other location in a house. Students can also add a description to each item in the catalog.

You can have a display of all the catalogs that the learners have done either individually or in small groups and give an award to each one.

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