Present Continuous Games for Elementary English Language Learners

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Use the Printable games to reinforce the present continuous tense in a dynamic way. Students can repeatedly use the present continuous reinforcing their understanding. Many games involve speaking, listening, and interacting with others, which helps ELLs practice the present continuous in a communicative way.

 

This is a classic Bingo game that comes with 15 cards for the students to listen carefully to the sentences describing ongoing actions in the present continuous tense such as "She is jumping,".  They will have to recognize the tense when spoken. To mark their Bingo cards correctly, students need to identify the correct picture. There is a teacher’s mat for you place the calling cards as you say the tense sentence. You can also use this game for other tenses since it is in the base form of the verb.

This Domino game combines pictures and words. This game will game appeals to both visual and linguistic learners. Have your students practice the action-related vocabulary (e.g., "running," "eating," "dancing") as they match the picture with the correct word.

Grab a die and give it the players to play the board game. They roll a dice to determine how many spaces to move forward.  There are four challenge cards (each with a corresponding color on the path) where students have to answer a question "What are you doing?"—The player answers, "I am dancing". Each player chooses a game piece to move along the board.  I used fun foam pieces that I had left behind. The goal is to reach the end of the board first and get the most points. On my example: I landed on a dark blue space, answered correctly and won 4 points and got the corresponding token.

Letter tiles work well for spelling and sentence construction skill.  Use the sets of letter tiles with enough letters to form words and then write sentences later on their notebook. Use any of the cards from any of the games with the base verbs written on them to aid in spelling.

The matching picture and word mat is an activity useful for visual learners and younger students.  they take turns selecting a word and then finding the corresponding picture that matches the action in the picture.  Once they find a match, they can place the word and say a sentence in the present continuous reinforcing their speaking skills. Use this game with any other tense later on.

Solve the puzzle set as you scatter the pieces on a table or the floor. Make sure that the pieces are mixed up so that students need to think carefully about how to match them. This can be done individually or in small groups to match the verb to the picture in the present continuous tense.

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Can as an Ability Small Cards

 This resource is part of Can as an Ability for Elementary ESL at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Can-as-an-Ability-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4299251

Print and use the interactive, visual, and flexible Can as an Ability small cards.  These supportive cards help ELLs to make connections between visuals and vocabulary, improving recall. The cards are portable and can be used in various settings—inside the classroom, in small groups, or for individual study.

Students can work together in pairs or small groups, helping each other use new vocabulary as they sort the cards into what they can or can’t do. Learners use critical thinking to complete the activity. Perfect for making sure that students understand the use of can and can't for ability.

Play Bingo! Hand in the bingo grid to the students and place the small cards on the board, table, etc. for them to select 9 cards to write what they can actually do. Then, lift all the cards and start calling the verbs.

Repeated exposure to vocabulary using the card to reinforce writing. ELLs benefit from the repetition that cards facilitate. Have the stduents pick cards and write a sentence, a question or any other grammar structure that you suggest.

Use the cards for making contrasting sentences. Model your example. Take a look!

Playing with the small cards will encourage active participation from students. Introduce this matching game. Cut the word from each card and have the students in groups collaborate to put the verb card to a verb word together. Matching activities can quickly show if a student has understood the concept or needs further practice.

Try more spelling using the cards. Grab an egg holder from the grocery store. Cut the word into letters and place them into each egg space. Players will pick up the letters and write the word under each small card.

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Rooms of the house Printable Games

  This TESOL and ELL resource is included in the House Unit available here: 

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These printables games will provide the house scenarios for the context that students need for language use. It is a fun and easy way to practice what they learned in a more meaningful situation, enhancing their comprehension and retention of the new language in this unit.

House Unit Sentence association game. Students will associate each picture card to the corresponding sentence. The learners will develop a better understanding of the context of the people in the house.This game can be played in small groups to promote interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Students will display the picture cards and the sentences on both sides of a desk or floor. Then, they start connecting all the cards to their corresponding sentence as they will develop a better understanding of the people in the rooms of the house. The result comes with a better comprehension and improvement of the overall language skills.

Visual Writing. Give the students the cards and have them write sentences for each one. They will write about what they see. Ask them questions about the picture to stimulate writing and their imagination. The colorful pictures are age -appropriate and relevant to the vocabulary plus grammar for the house unit. There is a clear representation of the family members and children in different rooms of the house.

Students can play matching the text that the classmates wrote to the pictures. And check  all 40 cards available: 

Descriptive sentences cards. These cards are great to practice writing clear and effective sentences that will enhance their communication skill. Display all the cards to aid students into writing a sentence. There are also blank cards to write any other word. Then, students will write their sentences and draw.

Rooms of the house Domino. The game will expose the students to the vocabulary as they match the pictures of a room scene, helping to expand the language learned.

Board games involve the use of spaces with pictures. Students will say a sentence or phrase in order to move in the board to make it even more meaningful: Brother is in the bathroom.

Pocket charts for the house unit. This works well for your visual learners. They are useful for organizing the sentences in a clear and structured manner. Students can then write the sentences on their notebooks.

Adding a game, a Bingo to review the parts of the house: chimney, roof, door and window. Students choose one house, 1,2 or 3. Display the colors that are playing the game meaning that they can only color each part in those colors. Have the calling cards available.

 Start reading any house card and have the students mark if they it in their house: This house is number 1. It is a yellow house.  It has a green chimney, a blue roof, a pink window and an orange door.

In this case the student can mark the blue roof. They keep on marking their house. The student that marks all the parts or most of the them first, wins the game.

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Numbers 1 to 20 Games and Activities for Elementary EFL

   This English as a new language teacher resource is part of the Numbers Unit 1 to 20 for Elementary English Language Learnes-Starters. Right here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Numbers-1-to-20-for-Elementary-EFL-3640162

Numbers 1 to 20 games and activities

Get creative into teaching this unit to your learners. Get them involved into play and explore many possibilities with their imagination within each game. It's so useful to have enjoyable and motivating extra activities to plan for your students. Find suggestions for your warm up and wrap up activities. lastly, the values of tolerenace and respect will be encouraged during play time.Find a rich array of fun games to support all learners. The games are also useful for testing knowledge.

Here is a printable board game to use with small groups of students. There is a colored version and a black and white that the students can color as they wish. The game can help consolidate the new number words.

Lots of small cards to play a matching pair of numbers and picture, or memory to recognize the numbers in print and numeral.  It’s a co-operative kind of game working together to match all the cards.

There is even more matching and counting the pencils in each cup to match to the numeral and the word.

A worksheet to wrap up counting the pencils and reviewing the colors at the same time. Do some listening as you dictate the colors of each number:

Number one is pink!

Then, students fill in the color word in each sentence.

Use the cards above to play this motivating spelling bingo game. Students will write any numbers from 1 to 20 on the blank lines. Use the cards to call out the numbers.

Use the small cards to play the automatic number. Hand in either the number word card or the numeral to each student. They stand in a circle with their card and not showing it. The students with number one says: one! the student with the number two, says: two! And so on. They can repeat but in a faster and automatic way. You can vary by handing in two cards instead of one to make it more difficult.

A little writing the number words with these colorful letters. Have the students find the letters and write the words corresponding to each number from 1 to 20. It will be an enjoyable task to complete, either individually or in a group as a collaborative learning experience.

Write descriptive sentences. Hand in the blank worksheet and the small cards with words to create sentences. You can write even more words on the blank cards provided.  Each student will make a sentence or phrase and draw on the square to illustrate. Students can compare their work.

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Numbers 1 to 20 Worksheets for Elementary EFL

  This English as an Additional Language (ENL) teacher resource is part of the Numbers Unit 1 to 20 for Elementary English Language Learnes-Starters. 

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Practice the number words in different ways with these worksheets. Review colors along the numbers 1 to 20. Deepen the knowledge of these numbers. students will develop numeracy by using the numerical and written form by listening to and writing the numbers as well. 

Making color and number association worksheets. Dictate a color for each number: Number eighteen is yellow.

Once the worksheet is done say several numbers in a sequence and have the students touch them and repeat: six, fifteen, twelve.

Students can identify the pattern in the teen numbers writing.

Students can cut the numbers and glue some of them onto the Bingo grids to play at any time in class. Call out the numbers using the small cards from this resource. Students put a marker on their grid as you call out their number. The fist student to cross out all the numbers on their grid has to shout BINGO!

Students should be able to recognize and count up to 20 by now. Ask questions: What color is number thirteen?
Students: yellow!

 I know that some teachers just have children with dyslexia in their English class. It is useful for you to have picture and text cards in hand such as mine. Have these students and the class in general use colors to highlight the number words and the numerals.

Questionnaire. Involve the class into asking What is your favorite number? and completing the worksheet.

 When asking the question, students are required to use the grammar structures correctly. Have the flashcards available for the students to choose from. Students can write more questions for further surveys.

Dice! Print and have your students put up the dice. Print the pages for a small group of students. They have to throw a color word dice and a number dice and see where it is on their set of worksheets and color accordingly.

School supplies and the numbers worksheet. Students will identify the classroom objects and the quantities. 

Work on the grammar rule of a or an before the students start the worksheet. Make sure that students know that they have to read the first part of a sentence and draw a line to the other part. You can make an example on the board if necessary. Students can check their work with a partner. This kind of worksheets gives your stduent the opportunity to meet the new vocabulary with the known one in a different context.

Students can make connections from the worksheet to their own situation. Present your students with this easy worksheet and the following: The classroom has many school objects that you have to count and write similar phrases. You can make this a group work. Aid your students with a school supply list of words that they already know. The focus is on recognition and quantity of the classroom supplies.

His or Her. Students will insert the missing his or her word. This is a controlled sentence construction activity.

This worksheet focus is on vocabulary. Students will write in the beginning letter the corresponding number. Then, ask which letter has the most words or numbers? Ask: What numbers start with a letter e?  and so on.

A crossword. Display your number flashcards or small cards and have students color the words they find. Ask them which numbers were missing.

And, there are more worksheets to use within the unit. Take a look!

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