Transportation Small Cards for Elementary ELL

 This resource is included in the Transportation unit for Elementary ESL at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4049752

Find the small cards which are versatile that add flexibility to the transportation unit.  It supports multiple learning styles. Use them for grammar practice, vocabulary review, or engaging games.

The Transport Small cards can prompt question-and-answer interactions between students.

Teacher: “Do you like boats?”

                       Students: “Yes, I do.” / “No, I don’t.”

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Students can write logical sentences for each card. Have students check each other’s sentences.

Start a quick sorting activity (land, air and water vehicles)

Match words to pictures.

Graph how students get to school, to the park or to a city.

Sort the cards by adjectives: long-short, fast-slow. Include all the ones you need.

Use the cards to create comparison sentences using adjectives.

Teacher: “A car is faster than a motorcycle.”

Plan for Superlative Adjectives, Equal Comparisons, Difference Sentences.

Speaking using comprarision:

Keep your students excited with hands-on games and crafts.

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Transportation Flashcards for Elementary ELL

 This resource is included in the Transportation unit for Elementary ESL at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4049752

The resource helps students learn essential transportation-related words to improve their vocabulary. These flashcards provide clear, visual representations of transportation vocabulary, aiding comprehension and retention.

The flashcards can be used in vocabulary drills such as description of the vehicles: The train is red.

Flashcards encourage students to answer questions about the different types of transportation.

Teacher: Are there two cars?
Students: Yes, there are.

Flashcards work for counting.

Make your lessons more dynamic and fun, incorporating the sorting  the flashcards by land, sea, air activity.

Use any flashcards for small group or whole-class activities. Model an example using the demonstratives: this and that, these and those. Example: This is a boat and that is a ship.

Hand in several flashcards to the stduents and have them say their sentences.

Practice the grammar structure: “I like [transportation], but I don’t like [transportation].” to reinforce transportation vocabulary. Emphasize the” final s” to the nouns.

Teach and practice adjectives related to the vehicles (e.g., long, short, cheap, expensive, fast, slow, new, old, big, small).

Review the adjective words using your arms and hands. Stretch your arms for long and hold your hands closer for short. Practice by doing another sorting on the board, having the students select the corresponding flashcards for each adjective.

Equal Comparison (as…as)

Introduce the comparatives of adjectives (faster, slower, bigger, smaller). Teach the Spelling Rule: Add -er to the adjective: fast → faster

Practice the superlatives of the adjectives (the fastest, the slowest, the biggest, the smallest). Ask students to make sentences with other flashcards.

Students can physically move flashcards around to demonstrate prepositions.

Give students instructions: “The van is next to the bus.”

Ask where people are in the vehicles using the corresponding preposition.

Have students use the word “ by “ to describe how to go to different places.

The flashcards can be adapted for different verb tenses and structures.

Tell the students that we use these three main verbs for the vehicles. Place them on the board and create a mind map.

Teacher: I can drive a car.
Students: I can fly a plane.

Have students take turns making sentences answering with the present continuous.

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Furniture in the House Small Cards 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

The furniture small cards can be used in various interactive activities that you will check out in this blog post. These cards are easy to carry from one classroom to another. Include these into the lesson plan for your english EFL.

Print and have these flexible teaching tools for your class.

Listen and draw the furniture items. Practice the furniture vocabulary with cards. It will help reinforce vocabulary through repetition.

Teacher: Lamp! Draw a lamp.

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Write the word. The small size of the cards helps maintain learners' focus on individual items. I used letters stickers to write the words that are on each small card.

Students can also draw pictures to illustrate each word.

Have the students say sentences as a speaking activity. Check the video:

Show me the furniture. Teachers can quickly assess students' knowledge with this easy activity.

Place several small cards on the board or table. Hold up a furniture piece flashcard. Ask the students to find the same matching one and say a sentence: It’s a clock.

My example video.

Adjective-noun phrase using small cards. This exercise can be easily adjusted to suit different proficiency levels in your class. Write adjective and noun words on small cards. Have the students write adjective words that you either dictate or that they write on the cards.

Students will match the item on the small card and the adjectives cards. They can write these phrases on their notebooks.

Here's the video:

Guess the furniture item. Cards facilitate group work, allowing students to practice speaking and listening skills collaboratively. Place the small cards on a table. Write the word that the students will guess on a piece of paper and hide it. Have the students ask questions to guess: Is it pink?

Teacher: No, it isn’t. It’s not a bathtub. (You can take away that small card)
Students: Is it round? Is it a circle?
Teacher: Yes, it is!
Students: It’s a clock!

My guessing example:

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Body Unit Small Cards for Elementary ESL

 This resource is included in the Body Unit for Elementary ESL. It can be used by ENL Instructional Teachers. Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Body-Theme-for-Elementary-ELL-1836555

The body unit small cards are visually appealing with a size that fits comfortably in small hands. Plan fun and interactive activities, helping your students to expand their vocabulary and language skills.

Play a matching game. Cut the word from each card and match the picture to the word.

Practice a matching action game using the verbs small cards.

Say: write! Write with your hand!

Students will mime writing and say the phrase: write with my hand!

Continue with all the cards available.

Use Monster small cards for sorting the parts of the body in each one. The Monsters come with different features to represent various body parts. For example, a Monster has three eyes and another has just one. The Monsters are fun looking to engage the students.

Decide on the sorting categories and write them down on strips of paper. Sort the monsters by the mnumbers of eyes, arms, fingers, hands, legs, feet.

Sorting by number of feet.

Sorting by number of eyes.

Sorting by number of fingers.

Sorting by number of hands.

Sorting by number of legs.

Sorting by number of arms.

Distribute the small cards in small groups and have the students create a Venn diagram contrasting the similarities and the difference between the Monsters.

There are adjectives used to describe people’s bodies such as thin, fat, tall, short, old, young. The small cards portray pictures of people with such adjectives. Ask the students to label the cards with the pictures with as many categories based on the adjectives to describe people. Students can talk about the physical appeareance of the people on the other small cards.

So many things to do with the small cards, I am sure that you will come up with more. Please share with me!

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This is my other blog for younger students with more ideas, activities and resources for the body unit.

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/01/body-unit-for-english-language-learners.html