St. Patrick’s Day and the House Unit

 This resource is included here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

This resource combines the vocabulary from the house unit with cultural elements of the St. Patrick’s Day holiday, making learning more engaging.

 Help your students reinforce house-related words in the context of a holiday theme, exposing students to traditions while learning English.

Use the flashcards with beginners for word recognition and more advanced learners will start sentence building. Place a house flashcard on the board and have the students match the roof, door, window.

Teacher: This is the roof.

Student: This is the door.

Encourage speaking through interactive activities. Have the students describe a house on the flashcard. Write the sentences provided by them.

Place the flashcards in a grid form. Give specific details about a cards and students have to guess the location.

Teacher: It’s a green house. It has an orange roof, a shamrock window, a purple and yellow horseshoe door.

Student: 2c

Place different St. Patrick’s Day house flashcards on a board. Have students position the boy, girl, or leprechaun next to, in front of, behind, or on the house. They must describe the scene using prepositions (e.g., "The leprechaun is in front of the shamrock house.").

Students draw two small cards (a house and a character). I placed the cards onto a toilet paper roll for easy handling. They will create a short text using those elements.

Students cut out the house and character images and glue them into their notebooks and create a scene, then write a short description.

Develop Reading Comprehension with this worksheet where students practice following instructions by reading and completing short sentences and coloring specific details.

A few more worksheets to choose the ones for your specific students.

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Town Small Cards for elementary ESL

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The small cards can be used for pair work, small group games, or individual practice, making lessons more engaging. Smaller size makes them more portable and convenient for teachers with limited storage space

Play "Listen and Number the Building".

Students will listen to name or descriptions of different buildings and number correctly the small cards using the number cutouts. Place the small cards with buildings on the streets.

Teacher: The restaurant is number 3!

As a variation students can play in pairs: One student describes, and the other numbers the buildings.

Look at the video:

Town Map Placement Game

Students will listen to location-based cues and correctly place their small town cards on a the designated space at the streets. Lay out the printable streets. Distribute the Small Cards.
The teacher calls out location instructions: "Place the park next to the school."
This kind of activity reinforces prepositions and directions in a hands-on way.

Just Like in this video!

Guess the Building!

 Students will listen to clues and guess the correct town building from the small cards or flashcards. Place the small town unit cards (e.g., hospital, school, park, supermarket, etc.) on the streets templates. Select a Game Leader who will be the clue giver. The leader secretly picks a building card without showing or telling the others. The leader describes the building without saying its name. The other students listen carefully and raise their hands or call out their answer. This game Improves listening and critical thinking as students analyze clues.

Video example:

Encourage speaking and writing as you ask questions:

Teacher: Where is the library?
Students: It is between the post office and the pet shop.
Students can also write the questions and answers on their notebooks.

Take a look!

Make sentences using the expression There is.

Students can describe locations using the cards.

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