Colors Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

 Colors Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

This English teacher resource (Colors Unit for Elementary ESL Students: Vocabulary Activities, Games, and Worksheets) is for teaching starters or Elementary English Language Learners. It comes with a focus on promoting communicate language. This is the unit for the students to identify all the 11 basic colors that would be used along all the book series that you choose.

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Teaching colors vocabulary is one of the first and most important steps in helping elementary ESL students develop English vocabulary. A complete colors unit allows students to learn basic color words while developing speaking, reading, and listening skills. This ESL colors unit provides engaging and interactive materials to build confidence in young English learners.

Color or colour? Well, that’s up to you. I included grey, just in case. Start introducing the colors vocabulary.Then have the students identify and name colors.

Colors Vocabulary Downloadable Flashcards

ESL colors flashcards help students learn vocabulary through visual support. Flashcards allow teachers to introduce new vocabulary clearly and help students associate color words with visual images.

Give your students exposure and fun practice with the Monster Colors flashcards.Ask your students if they know any color word in English. Show the flashcards and see how many colors they can name.

Ask Yes/ No questions using the colors flashcards. Have students nod their heads when they answer with yes and shake their heads when they answer with no.  Teacher: Is it blue?

Students: Yes, it is. /No, it isn’t.

Use the worksheet to practice the structures.

Practice asking and answering questions. Attach the color flashcards to the board. Draw a grid around them. Point to each flashcard and have the students say the color word. Say a number and letter combination and have the students guess which color it is.
Teacher: B2
Students: black!

Teaching Colors Small Cards.

Easy to print and handy to have for multiple games. Here is one for speaking. Just cut the word from the picture and have the students match them.

Students can show each other a small card and ask questions to describe the color: What color is it?

ESL Colors Worksheets

Colors worksheets help students practice reading, recognizing, and writing color vocabulary. Worksheets reinforce vocabulary learning and improve retention.

Have the children listen and point to the color word you say. They should repeat the color word.

This is a read and color set of worksheets that cater to the need of your specific students. Have the students read the color listing aloud when they are done.

Use the worksheet as a cut and play kind of worksheet. Students will cut all the strips and place on their desk. Say: Show me orange! They will find that strip of paper and show it to you as they repeat the word.

Write the correct vowel letter worksheet and color. Check the spelling.

Do a listening, color and write the word kind of worksheet. It’s a multiple skill activity.

A worksheet to associate words with colors to help reinforce the connection between the written word and its meaning. Students will write the vowel.

Practice patterns with this simple worksheet that you can do as a listening activity or as a show and tell patterns.

Colors Word Search Worksheet.

Coloring is an engaging activity for young children. Have fun with this coding worksheet.

A nice worksheet to color each word in the corresponding color.

Practice! 

Express preferences using the Favorite color worksheets.

Practice asking and answering questions about the favorite color. Display the color flashcards around the classroom. Have the students to run to their favorite color flashcard and stand next to it. Ask them: What’s your favorite color?

Students: It’s red!

Ask: What’s your favourite colour? and encourage different students to answer. Then, they can complete the worksheet. Use your color flashcards or small cards to name several colors and the students with that color mentioned  in their worksheets should stand up. Write the amount of students that stood up on board, so you can start a graph.

Give a twist to the graph for the favorite color. Place colored balloons at several parts of the classroom. After the students finish their favorite color worksheets. Have them find the balloon of their favorite color and stand right there. Tally the results.

There is the questionnaire worksheet. Use it for the students to walk around the classroom and ask questions and write the response. Place the worksheets into a plastic sheet device so you can use it several times. An activity that will promote peer interaction and communication.

Questionnaires are engaging, students have to walk around and ask the questions in English. After completing the survey, students can share their favorite colors with the class.

Here is a video with all the worksheets in this resource:

Colors Unit Games

Printable ESL colors games make vocabulary practice fun and interactive. Games increase motivation and help students remember vocabulary more effectively.

Play a colors board game. Print as many as you need and set up the board game. Students should be able to understand and use the color vocabulary as they play.

Color Word Bingo

 Bingo is a vocabulary game with a focus on memorization and listening comprehension.

Use any of the color word worksheets to create 2 Bingo grids to use any time during any of your lesson. Students will cut and paste the colors splash and words randomly. As they play, they have to recognize the color words being called. You can be the caller or have any other students be it, using the color flashcards or small cards.

Unscramble the color words and match game. Just print, cut and have your students start putting together the color words.

Take a look!

Word Asssociation game. Use this set of cards for many games that you have your students play on their own with very little supervision.

-       Match the words to the color splotches

-       Memory

-     -  Match it up: hand in one card to each student in the class. At your signal, students walk around looking for their match. If they find someone with the matching card, they stand together and say: Match up!

 

                         

Color Unit Books

A flap book to wrap up this unit. Include this simple book in your lesson plan to build confidencein reading skills,

Print both pages for a student or a group of students.

Students will assemble the flap book by stapling the vertical side of the two pages and cutting the strips of the flap book. They have to read and color the splotches.

And a more classic Color Monster printable book.

ESL Colors Paintbrush Activities for Elementary Students, include in the complete pack. Go to the next blog post and see the rest.

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/06/colors-unit-paintbrushes-for-elementary.html

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Simple past tense with town and prepositions for ESL

Link to the resource:

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Help your students understand and practice the simple past tense with meaningful, context-based ESL activities! This lesson uses familiar town vocabulary and real-life actions to make the past tense easy for young learners to grasp and use. 

Why the Simple Past Tense Is Important

The simple past tense is one of the first grammar structures students need for telling stories, describing past experiences, and sharing information about events. But many learners struggle because the form looks different from present tense.

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.

Prepositions 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.

These materials support fluency and consolidation.

There is more to this resource, check the blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2019/11/simple-past-tense-with-town-and_26.html

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