School Subjects and the nouns

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More flashcards are here to relate the school subjects from last blog post to the nouns.Place the subject flashcard on the board and then have the students find the noun flashcards related to that subject. This is the MATH example as in a mind map.There are also classroom objects flashcards that go with the subjects.

Here is the English subject presentation. Link to all the resources:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Subjects-for-ESL-4548123

Here is the History subject presentation.

Here is the P.E. subject presentation.

Here is the Religion subject presentation.

Here is the Physics subject presentation.

Here is the Music subject presentation.

Here is the Chemistry subject presentation.

Here is the Geograhy subject presentation.

Here is the Biology subject presentation.

Here is the Art subject presentation.

Place a school subject flashcard on the board and start adding all the nouns that relate to that specific subject. Do the same with all the subjects.

Play Guess the subject. Place several noun flashcards on the board. Have the students guess to which subject the flashcards correspond.

Play Bingo with all the flashcards. Place them on the board. Have the students select only six of them and write them down on their notebook. Start calling the words and remove them and place them on the wall or door to show students which one you have called so they can cross the word out. The winner is the first to cross out all the words.

I made small cards Subject/Noun to match.

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Town Flashcards for ELL

Town Flashcards

I made 190 flashcards for the Town theme and included places, community, stores, land features, neighborhood, places for leisure activities. And here are several ideas to promote speaking using flashcards.

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                     This is the complete set of flashcards! The language objective is to learn the name of the places in a town.

Town Unit Flashcards 1. Demonstartives This and That. Use the point finger to introduce this and that.

Teacher: This is a bank. That is the cinema.

Hand in the point finger and using more flashcards, have the students say the sentences.

Town Unit Flashcards 2. Drill. Nominate an individual student to be the driller. The class or the group members have to read each flashcard.

Give the flashcards at individual students.

Teacher: Where are you ?

Student: I am at the police station. ( shows the card)This is the police station.

Town Unit Flashcards 3. Go to. I use my Commands Flashcards for this activity. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Commands-Flashcards-1816475

Place a flashcard on each seat or desk.

Teacher: Pam, run to the police station.

Teacher: Kim, Go to the hospital.

Town Unit Flashcards 4. Name more. Place several flashcards and have students name a place in your town or city. Write the place under each flashcard. Have the students make another list with more flashcards. Here I wrote examples of my hometown.

Town Unit Flashcards 5. Sort the flashcards by buildings, stores, work places,nature.

Town Unit Flashcards 6. Let´s go ! Have the students make sentences using Let´s go to.

Teacher: Let´s go to the museum!

Students: Let´s go to the park !

Town Unit Flashcards 7. There is ,  Guess game using interrogatives . Have 5 students come to the front and give a flashcard to each one and don´t let them show the flashcards to the class, but they do have to know what flashcards are playing. The class has to guess the buildings in town.

Students: Is there a library?

Student in the front: Yes, there is. (shows the card)

Students: Is there a museum?

Student in the front: No, there isn´t.

Town Unit Flashcards. Use of the structure There are to describe the town. Place several town flashcards on the board. Have a student come up one at a time and draw as you say. The students will draw the scene on their notebooks and write the sentences.

Teacher: There are two cars at the post office. There are four flowers at the restaurant. There are three giraffes at the zoo.

Town Unit Flashcards 8.  Where is the family? I added a set of family flashcards to make sentences with the town flashcards.

Teacher: Where is Mother ?

Students: Mother is in the shoe store.

Or, you place more place flashcards and tell students where the family members are and have them attach the corresponding flashcard.

Teacher: Father is in the restaurant.

Town Unit Flashcards 9. Where?. Place several flashcards on the board.  Draw Main Street and start asking questions.

Teacher: Excuse me, It is on Main Street, between the fire station and the library.

Teacher: Where is the library ?

Students: It is on Main Street, next to the hospital.

Town Unit Flashcards 10. Use of the adjectives On the left, on the right. Draw the street and arrows, place a flashcard on the right and another on the left.

Teacher: The bus station is on the right. The beauty salon is on the left.

Have students write questions to ask you about your street.

Student: Is there a bus stop ?
Teacher: No, there isn´t.

Flashcards 11. Where and what number? A good review for the numbers 1 to 20.

Place several flashcards on both sides of the road and add a write on each one.

Teacher: Where is the apartment building ?

Students: It´s on the right.

Teacher: What number is it ?

Students: It´s number 14.

Flashcards 12. Use of the preposition At the corner of. Draw a street intersection, if it is a known one of your town the better. Add the flashcards.

Teacher: The school is at the corner of First Avenue and Main Street.

Have the students draw more examples and write the sentences. Then dictate to a student that will go to the board and place the flashcards.

Flashcards 13. Draw a street on the board. Give a set of flashcards to several students. Have them place the cards in the correct position on the street. Give them a written text where the cards should go. The students have to discuss how to place them.

The shoe store is on Main Street. The clothing store is next to the shoe store.The Hotel is next to the shoe store. The shoe store is between the clothing store and the Hotel. The bowling alley is across the street. The planetarium is next to the bowling alley.

                                     

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Weather Flashcards Activities for ESL EFL Learners

The Weather unit and the Flashcards activities for Elementary English Language Learners.

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Flashcards activity 1. Display all the weather flashcards on the board. Point and ask questions.

Teacher: What´s the weather like  today?
Students: It´s rainy.
Teacher: Is it snowy?
Students: yes, it is.
Teacher: Is it sunny?
Students: No, it isn´t.

Flashcards activity 2. Make a weekday chart on the board using your flashcards.

Ask Questions.

Teacher: Today is Tuesday. What´s the weather like ?

Students: It´s windy.

Have the students ask and answer more questions.

Flashcards activity 3. Order the flashcards by size. Have the students tell you how to order them on the board. Then ask questions.

Teacher: Which is the biggest?

Students: The sun!

Teacher: Which is the smallest?

Students: The snowflake!

And ask questions about color.

Teacher: What color is the sun?

Students: yellow!

Flashcards activity 4. Make patterns. Hand in the student´s flashcards.

Say a pattern order and have the students create them on their desks using the smaller version. Place the flashcards on the board for student´s correction. This makes for a good listening exercise.

Teacher: windy, cloud, lightning, sunny!

Flashcards activity 5. Express  weather likes. Place the weather flashcards on the board. Review all the weather flashcards that you have selected.

Hand in the small weather cards for the students to color and write their name on their favorite.

When they come to the board to place their card they have to express their opinion. 

Student: My favorite weather is sunny. 

Ask questions: Which weather has the most votes? ,Which weather has the least votes?, How many votes are there for sunny?

Flashcards activity 6. Games !

Game1. Spinners.

Give each student a spinner and a set of flashcards and questions to the group.

One student will be the reader and the rest will judge if the answer is correct. When a student answers a question correctly he or she colors a fraction of the spinner. If the answer is incorrect, he or he can´t color the spinner.  The first student to complete coloring the spinner is the winner. I made a colored version that you can add plastic contact paper or laminate, students can use board markers to color and the spinner can be erased and reused. If not, use the paper version. The spinner has 8 fractions.

Game 2. Cards around the room. Place the flashcards on the floor around the room following a path. Play some music or some weather sounds and have the children walk around the path of path. When the sounds stops they have to grab the card close to them and at your signal  show the flashcard and say the word.

Game 3. Have the children order the flashcards alphabetically. Give each group a set of flashcards and at your signal have them order the flashcards. The first group to finish calls STOP!

Game 4. Draw it. Divide the class into groups. Have them assign one student from each group to come to the front and draw the flashcards that you will show them. The first group to shout out the word wins a point.

And a freebie, Weather Flashcards in Spanish ( Tarjetas imprimibles del clima en español) ! Just for the teachers that are in a dual language class or teach Spanish anywhere. 

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