“Boost Language Skills with Board Games: Fun & Effective ESL Activities”

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Find a variety of themed board games perfect for practicing vocabulary, sentence structures, speaking, and listening skills—all while playing!

Board games give students a chance to hear, use, and repeat key vocabulary and sentence structures in a natural, purposeful way. Whether they're counting spaces, asking questions, or making choices, students are communicating with a clear purpose.

Most of the games includes:

Color coded Question Cards with the color of the spot landed on, that students must answer a question correctly to take their turn and advance. The question cards provide purposeful language practice.

Color coded Tokens to reward points to students who answer questions correctly. These can be used to keep track of points.

Markers (player pieces) that students use to move along the board path. Just cut and fold and glue on the upper part of each one.

Parents can participate in their child's learning by playing the game and supporting language development. Send the PLAYGROUND BOARD GAME home.

Achieving goals within the FRUIT AND VEGETABLE board game, such as reaching the finish line or earning points, reinforces students' learning progress.

BIRTHDAY UNIT board game can be adapted to suit different learning levels or individual student needs, allowing for differentiation in instruction.

Teachers can observe students during games to assess vocabulary, PRESENT CONTINUOUS grammar, and communication skills.

Students interact with their peers during gameplay, promoting social interaction and collaboration during the FURNITURE BOARD GAME.

This board game for the Grammar: CAN, involves strategic thinking and problem-solving. Students need to plan their moves, make decisions, and adapt their strategies during the game, fostering critical thinking skills.

Board games create situations where students use CLOTHES UNIT language in context.

Players practice descriptive language skills as they describe the ZOO animals they encounter on the game board.

The objective of the game is to navigate through the various spaces on the game board, learning and practicing vocabulary related to different PARTS OF THE BODY.

All the board games are part of all the units Elementary English Language learners teaching Units-Discover BUNDLE at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elementary-English-Language-learners-teaching-Units-Discover-BUNDLE-12982247

There are more board games included in the resource, go to the blog post and see which ones you would like to have:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/03/board-games-for-elementary-english.html

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There are practical activities, tips, and resources designed to make learning fun and effective for little ones!

“Hands-On Farm Vocabulary Activities Worksheets for ELLs”

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These worksheets give your students a meaningful way to practice grammar and vocabulary together, making your Farm Unit comprehensive, communicative, and fun!

To support language development in context, I’ve included two essential grammar worksheets in the Farm Unit resource: one focused on the verb “can” and another practicing the present continuous tense (e.g., "The cow is eating"). These worksheets help students connect grammar structures with real-life vocabulary

Students describe each image using the present continuous tense:
"The horse is jumping."

To support early literacy and vocabulary development, I’ve added a variety of vocabulary-focused worksheets to the Farm Unit resource. These include activities where students match, write, read, color, and draw farm animals.

Find a farm animal word search and sorting worksheets that build on the same set of animal words. Word searches help students scan for patterns, recognize letter combinations, and reinforce spelling. Sorting the farm animals by features (e.g., number of legs, baby/mommy pairs) promotes logical thinking.

Label-the-body-parts worksheets featuring farm animals. These worksheets combine science, vocabulary building. Students learn key animal body part words like tail, legs, ears, wings, beak, hooves, etc.

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Fruit and Veggies Worksheets for Elementary ELLs.

 This resource is included in The Fruit and Vegetables level 1 for Elementary ELLS.LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetables-level-1-for-Elementary-ELLS-12275711

The worksheets focus on—fruits and vegetables—that students will encounter in real-life situations, helping them communicate more effectively in English. These worksheets use engaging activities that cater to visual learners. By including activities like matching, sorting, and labeling, the worksheets offer a hands-on, multisensory approach. Use these for the practice part of the lesson plan for your english class.

Whether students are just starting or need more challenging tasks, these worksheets can be adapted for different levels. Choose the ones you need for your students.

Teachers can provide additional vocabulary using any of the worksheets.

Teachers can create cross-curricular lessons that connect language learning with math topics.

Print these worksheets for use in class or send them as homework.

Revisit the face and body vocabulary in the context of the fruit and vegetable unit, giving students the chance to reinforce their understanding of previously learned words.

Use your Fruit and Vegetables worksheets to integrate grammar instruction with vocabulary practice, helping ELLs develop both their vocabulary and grammatical competence in a fun, meaningful context.

Teachers can use the worksheets to spark conversations as listening exercises about food, promoting interaction and oral language development. This is a questionnaire worksheet. There is a set of even more, check them out: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Questionnaire-Worksheets-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11315049

Build confidence and autonomy in their language learning as they can work on their own.

Continue with the blog post with games included in this resource:https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/11/fruit-and-veggies-games-for-elementary.html

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Clothes unit Flashcards for Elementary ESL

 This resource is part of Clothes Theme for Elementary ESL or Formadora de Lengua Inglesa. Click here:

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Students will identify and sort the clothes flashcards by color. Review the colors on the board by drawing a color splotch and having the stduents say the name.

Have the students say what they have sorted: a brown hat!

Point to different clothing item and ask: What color is the blouse?
Students: red! It’s red.
Teacher: What color are the shoes?
Students: They are pink and yellow.

More vocabulary practice is to make a chart. Place several people flashcards on the board and make a chart with several clothing items. Have the stduents come and check which clothes the person is wearing and write to the ones the person isn’t wearing.

Let’s review prepositions.
Teacher: Where is the boy?
Stuents: He’s in the boot.

To talk about possession using have in affirmative or negative.
Teacher: Who has a pink hat?
Students: Number 8.
Teacher: Number 1 has a green hat.
Students: Number 2 has a brown hat.

Talk about possession in plural and identify the owner of the hats.

Teacher: Who has a purple hat?
Stuents: Number 6 and 12.
Teacher: Number 10 and 11 have green hats.
Stuents: Number 8 and 9 have pink hats!

Possessive adjectives His and her. Describing possession. Place two similar flashcards on the board to contrast what the people are wearing.

Teacher: This is his T-shirt!
Students: This is her T-shirt!

More on asking questions about possession: Are these your boots?

Students: Yes, they are.

Use the flashcards to help the students express likes or dislikes. Ask students about their opinion: Do you like jackets?

Start talking about possessives. Ask questions using the possessive pronouns: Whose shoe is this?

Students: The shoe is hers.

To describe what one is wearing using the present continuous tense. Place several flashcards on the board and ask what they are wearing using descriptive adjectives such as colors.

Students: She is wearing a black dress.

To describe what people are wearing as the same. Place similar clothing items on the flashcards and have them identify which one it is. Students will answer questions with what.

Teacher: What are they wearing?

Students: a green dress!

Play Who am I? I choose several pictures of people all wearing jeans. Teacher: I am wearing blue jeans, blue t-shirt and white sneakers.

Students: You are number 4.

Relate the clothes to a part of the body.

I wear gloves on my hands.

I wear boots on my feet.

I wear a hat on my head.

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