Seasons and Months

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 Introduce the Seasons Vocabulary with Flashcards.  I made full size and smaller flashcards depending on your class size.

Teacher: Spring! It’s Spring.
Ask more questions:
Teacher: Which Season is between Spring and Fall ?
Students: Summer!

I know that many teachers are in dual language settings and I am a Spanish Native Language Speaker. I made a set of Seasons Flashcards in Spanish.

Review the Months of the Year using the cards.

Have the students sort with you on the board the months for each Season.

Teacher: What month is this ?

Student: Winter! It’s Winter.

Teacher: Which months are there in the Winter ?

Student: December, January, February.

Teacher: When is Spring ?

Student: March, April, May.

Teacher: What season is it in July ?

Student: Summer!

Hand in the questionnaire to the students. They walk around asking questions to their classmates.

Then graph the results on the board.

               Review the preposition used for Seasons.

A worksheet! Well, actually three. Hand in the first two worksheets to the students. Dictate how to color each letter of the Seasons Words.

Teacher: Color letter “e ”green. Which seasons has an “e ”?

Students: Summer! Winter!

Continue with all the other letters, it is an alphabet review and students will notice the spelling of the words.

Dictate how to color all the months of the year to practice listening.

Teacher: Color December pink.

When students finish coloring, they cut and paste the months in each Season box.

Students go their notebooks and pair each Season box to a picture.

And to finish the sorting, a worksheet to answer.

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Simple past tense with town and prepositions for ESL

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After reviewing the prepositions as seen on my last blog post let’s get into the simple past tense. Review the places in town with the flashcards.

I made smaller flashcards for speaking purpose. The flashcards are with people at a town building.

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Teacher: Where was she?

Students: She was at the library.

Simple past tense with days of the week. Write questions and answers on the board using the long cards and the flashcards.

Teacher: Where were you on Monday?

Students: I was at the supermarket!

Simple past tense with past time expressions such as last night, last month.

     Simple past tense with  the most common yesterday.

      Simple past tense with the parts of the day.

            

              Simple past tense with the specific days or dates.

                        

                           Simple past tense with the seasons.

                  Simple past tense with the months of the year.

Nothing better than fun practice. I found a similar idea on the www.mailbox.com, There are several cards for writing sentences. This can be done in a group. Students pick four or five cards and make sentences on their notebook. The students are reminded to use more words in their sentences.

I divided a clear plastic sheet in four using duct tape as I was able to place 4 cards in one sheet.

This snakes and ladders game is for fun and for speaking. Students have to fill in with was or were/wasn’t-weren’t or use for the simple present.

Students make sentences with this printable and write them on their notebook. They can write questions and answers.

Even though some teachers say that worksheets are old fashion, I like them.

And I like to do more with more them than just filling in the blanks. Observe that I cut all the worksheet and paste on the notebook by matching the drawing to the sentences.

Or add the questions and answers for each drawing.

                      Another example.

More worksheets!

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Simple past tense with town and prepositions for ESL

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Review the use of prepositions first and then show how to use them in the simple past. I created a set of long cards to place on the board or to ue in groups.

ON-used for days of the week. Write the word on and place the days of the week long cards on the board as in a mind map.

Teacher: On Monday!

Students: On Tuesday ! (continue with more)

IN-used for parts of the day.

                IN - used for months of the year.

AT-used for time of the day.

AT-used for specific place

              Teacher: at school!

              Students: at the pharmacy ! (continue with more)

AT-used for general locations or buildings in a town.

Teacher: at the post office!

Students: at the bank ! (continue with more)

On-used for specific dates and days.

IN - used for seasons.

Now, have the students practice the use of the prepostions.

I made two size of pockets to sort the cards. This one is smaller and can be used on the notebook. This activity can be done individually or in small groups.

And I made another set of pocket a little bigger to be used as a group activity. Just make a pocket by gluing each pocket template onto cardboard and print a set of cards and have the students do the sorting .

Or use plastic plates, you can write a preposition with a dry erase maker and students can do the sorting.

Another idea is to create a flap book, either horizontal o vertical.

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