“Fun on the Farm: Engaging ESL Learners with Hands-On Farm Games”

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Games are a powerful tool for language learning. That’s why I included several interactive farm-themed games in this resource!

Card Games encourage students to speak, listen, read, and think in English in an authentic way. Whether they’re identifying animals, matching vocabulary, or making sentences.

By spelling out farm animal names like horse, duck, sheep, and goat, students are reviewing the words they're learning in a new and tactile way. Draw an animal card, and students race to build the word using letter tiles.

With four starting points, students follow the path on the board game, landing on colored spaces and answering questions that match the color using the corresponding cards. Set up groups of 2–4 students and assign each group a board. Instruct a follow-Up Writing where students write 2–3 sentences about their favorite animal they landed on during the game.

Sorting helps students understand how things are grouped and connected, which is key for building comprehension and academic thinking.  This farm resource includes several sorting mats, such as:

Mommy and Baby Animals

Animal and the Product It Produces

Animal Sounds (Moo, Baa, Oink, etc.)

Farm Headband Game Cards.

Whether you use store-bought headbands or make simple paper ones, this activity is guaranteed to get your students engaged. Each card features a farm animal image, and students wear the card on their head without seeing it, while their classmates give clues.

Encourages Descriptive Language
Clue-givers use descriptions like:“It says moo.”“It gives us milk.”“It’s black and white.” 

This matching game helps students explore farm life by pairing each animal with what it eats. Students learn not just the animal names, but words like grass, hay, corn, worms, grain, insects, and carrots—expanding their word bank around the farm theme. Lay out all the animals and food cards. Students match them in pairs (cow → grass, pig → corn, chicken → worms).

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“Where’s the Mouse? Teaching Prepositions with a Clock

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

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Teaching prepositions is essential for helping English language learners (ELLs) understand how objects relate to one another in space. By interacting with the mouse and the clock in different positions, students will build visual comprehension of common prepositions.

Flashcards and Small cards-Partner Practice. One student picks a flashcard and describes it without showing. The other has to find the small card to match it.

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Small Card Puzzle Match: Picture + Word. Cut the cards into two pieces—one with the image and one with the sentence or preposition. Students match and read them aloud.

Worksheets support multiple learning styles – visual (coloring/drawing), kinesthetic (cut and paste), and auditory (when paired with read-alouds).

Draw the Mouse Worksheet. Students read the instruction: “There is a pink mouse on the clock.” This helps reinforce understanding through art and movement.

Roll & Color Worksheet. Use the preposition dice provided in the resource. Students roll, find a matching image on the worksheet, and color it.

Read and Color the Scene Worksheet. Students read simple sentences like “The brown mouse is under the clock.” They find the matching picture and color it.

Students write the number to match images of the mouse and clock with written preposition sentences. This builds reading comprehension and visual matching.

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Print two sets of mini cards. Students play memory by flipping two cards at a time, trying to find matching positions. When they find a match, they say the sentence: “The mouse is behind the clock.”

Use these same cards and have students find a card and physically move the mouse to match the preposition.” The mouse is on the clock!”

Print the mats labeled with prepositions.  Students sort the small cards by placing them under the correct label. You can turn it into a center activity or partner game!

Give students a set of puzzle word cards. They match the picture card and build the sentence to describe it.

Board Game. When students land on a space, they say the sentence to move forward.

Flap Book-They write the sentence under each space: “The mouse is on the clock.”  There is a set of illustrations to color, cut and paste for extra fun!

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“Hands-On Farm Vocabulary Activities Worksheets for ELLs”

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These worksheets give your students a meaningful way to practice grammar and vocabulary together, making your Farm Unit comprehensive, communicative, and fun!

To support language development in context, I’ve included two essential grammar worksheets in the Farm Unit resource: one focused on the verb “can” and another practicing the present continuous tense (e.g., "The cow is eating"). These worksheets help students connect grammar structures with real-life vocabulary

Students describe each image using the present continuous tense:
"The horse is jumping."

To support early literacy and vocabulary development, I’ve added a variety of vocabulary-focused worksheets to the Farm Unit resource. These include activities where students match, write, read, color, and draw farm animals.

Find a farm animal word search and sorting worksheets that build on the same set of animal words. Word searches help students scan for patterns, recognize letter combinations, and reinforce spelling. Sorting the farm animals by features (e.g., number of legs, baby/mommy pairs) promotes logical thinking.

Label-the-body-parts worksheets featuring farm animals. These worksheets combine science, vocabulary building. Students learn key animal body part words like tail, legs, ears, wings, beak, hooves, etc.

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“Monkey & Box Prepositions: Fun, Hands-On Activities for ELLs”

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Click here:

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Learning prepositions of place is essential for your learners because it helps them develop key communication skills and a deeper understanding of how objects relate to each other in space.

Young learners will use the flashcards with prepositions to describe where animals are. Prepositions help students form complete sentences and improve their fluency. They will write yes/no questions for each flashcard (e.g., "Is the monkey on the box?"). After writing, students can ask those questions to a partner, strengthening their ability to use prepositions in spoken language.

Students must observe the image carefully to form the puzzle sentence, improving their visual literacy and understanding of spatial relationships.  Students match the image to the correct puzzle sentence: “The monkey is in the box.”

Start the fun Copycat Drawing & Writing Activity. Students draw the image from a small card and write the corresponding sentence. This is multi-sensory learning (seeing, drawing, writing) to boost recall.

Activities like placing objects in a specific location improve both language and spatial thinking. Students must connect the preposition word to positioning the monkey and the box in that correct location, after rolling the die included in the resource. Students then describe the sentence using the cutouts: “The monkey is in front of thebox!”

Worksheets give students multiple opportunities to practice prepositions in different contexts. Students can work at their own pace, allowing for differentiation based on ability levels. Just choose the correct one for your students.

Worksheets provide a way for teachers to assess individual understanding.  By reading sentences and matching them to pictures, students improve comprehension.

Worksheets will keep students engaged while deepening their understanding of prepositions.

Matching mats help students recognize and decode words, improving their sight word recognition.

Students will practice sentence structure in context, by saying where they landed on the board game.

If students write sentences in the flip book, they practice sentence formation and grammar. It’s a tactile activity, which helps kinesthetic learners absorb information better.

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