Halloween Activities for the ESL student

Another Halloween again! I prepared this resource with many things. Hope you like it. 

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Let’s start with Halloween Flashcards!

 Picture Dictionary. Hand in the 3 pages for making the picture dictionary. It is a good idea to do this in groups. This is a cut and paste activity.

I love tracing cards. It is a spelling activity that can be done using the clear plastic sheet. Just as some native language students learn to trace words in Preschool some ESL learners benefits from tracing.

I made another set of tracing cards that can work as coloring cards. Practice coloring the body parts and/or the clothes.

I made a smaller version of the tracing cards to create an accordion book.

First, I glued one card onto another.

Then, I folded all the cards into an accordion.

I traced the cover onto cardboard to make the other part of the book. I glued the first page onto the cover and the last one onto the cardboard.

Just a worksheet to place all the words in ABC order.

Spelling Bingo is always a fun game to play. Use the small cards or the Big Flashcards to call the Bingo words. Students just write a playing word in each part of the spinner. They have to cross out the word that is being called if they have it.

If Spelling Bingo is not enough. Try Spelling Scrabble. I added the Scrabble letters. I printed them onto Halloween colored paper, I chose orange and purple. I did my example using the puppets, you can use any of the small cards in the resource.

I also made worksheets with all the Halloween Characters without the face parts and for the students to color the clothes items.

Teacher: This is Dracula. He has green eyes, a small nose and funny mouth. 
Students draw as indicated.

You can also dictate how he is dressed or have them color the clothes and then describe his clothes.

Students: Dracula is wearing a black and red cape, gray pants and brown shoes.

I made all the characters into puppets using toilet paper rolls. Here are just a few and made a haunted house, it comes in two pages which you will have to glue to make a big one. I printed mine onto orange cardboard and colored the door, the windows and roof to review parts of the house.

Teacher: What color is the door?

Students: It’s brown!

Use the puppets to review the words.

Teacher: Who is he?

Students: He is the Mummy!

Teacher: Who is she?

Students: She is the Witch!

I also used the puppets to do prepositions practice.

Teacher: Where is the Devil?

Students: She is in front of the Haunted House!

 Teacher: Where is Frankenstein?

Students: He is behind the Haunted House!

Teacher: Where is the Witch?

Students: She is in the Haunted House!

Or have the students write about where the characters are.

A game board for those minutes of free play!

I taped an opened clip behind each game piece to make it stand as a marker.

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Family adjectives and body parts for ESL

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Adjectives can be used for describing the family members, but let’s start with young and old. Contrast the youngest and the oldest of this family, the babies and the grandparents.

Teacher: Who is she ?

Students: The baby !

Teacher: She is young!

Teacher: Who is she ?

Students: Grandma !

Teacher: She is old!

Sort the flashcards as young or old.

Teacher: Point to the brother. Is he young or old?

Students: Young ! He is young.

Teacher: Who is the oldest?

Students: Grandpa is the oldest.

Teacher: Who is the youngest?

Students: The baby is the youngest.

Teacher: Who is the older, Mother or sister?

Students: Mother is the older.

Teacher: Who is the younger, father or brother?

Students: Brother is younger.

More adjectives can be introduced related to the hair, such as long-short, curly-straight, and color. State that for describing hair it is length, style and color. Play as a game by drawing a grid on the board and placing the flashcards in random order.

First ask questions.

Teacher: Look at A3! Who is she?

Students: Grandma!

Teacher: What color is her hair?

Students: gray.

Teacher: Is her hair long or short?

Students: short.

Teacher:  Grandma has short gray hair.

Then, say a letter and number combination and have students say the adjectives.

Teacher: B2!

Students: Cousin! Short straight black hair.

Or try the opposite.

Teacher: short straight and blond hair

Students: C2!

Then, do the male hair which is easier.

Teacher: Who is Number 3?

Students: Brother!

Teacher: Tell me about his hair.

Students: He has short straight blond hair.

Teacher: Guess! He has short curly gray hair

Students: Grandpa!

Sort the family members in tall and short.

Teacher: Who is tall?

Students: Father! Mother! Grandma! Grandpa! Uncle! Aunt!

Teacher: Who is short?

Students: the babies! The cousins! Brother and sister!

Have the students order the family members from the tallest to the shortest.

Ask questions.

Teacher: Who is the tallest?

Students: father!

Teacher: Who is the shortest?

Students: the baby brother!

Teacher: Who is taller, the brother or the sister?

Students: the brother!

Teacher: Who is shorter, mother or grandma?

Students: grandma!

Looking at all the flashcards together. I thought of reviewing this and these would be good. Model sentences.

Teacher: This is the sister.

Students: This is the uncle.

Teacher: These are the grandmas.

Students: These are the cousins.

Review body parts using the flashcards and worksheets.

Here is a set of worksheets to review the facial features of the family members suing adjectives. They can be used to complete as you dictate, the students can complete and then present to the class as a speaking opportunity.

Make the students use the adjectives big or small to complete the family member’s faces.

Teacher: Sister has small green eyes, a big nose, a small mouth and big ears. Her hair is short curly and blond.

More Worksheets to review adjectives for describing hair.

Play Guess WHO ? game. Give the template to a pair of students. Have them color the hair and/or eyes. Student 1 will ask the questions and student 2 will pick a family member to be guessed.

Student1: Does the person have brown hair?

Student 2: Yes!

 Student1: Does the person have straight hair?

Student 2: NO!

Student1: Does the person have curly hair?

Student 2: Yes!

Student1: Does the person have short or long hair?

Student 2: long!

Student1: Is it the aunt?

Student 2: Yes!

Play BINGO! I made a Bingo worksheet. Have the students color in any way they want, that will be the Bingo sheet. The Bingo cards are for you, color them like mine. Place them in a bag and start calling bingo.

Teacher: Sister has blond hair.

The students that have the sister with blond hair can cross her hair out.

The winner is the one that crosses out all the hair and eyes from these three family members.

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School unit flashcards for ESL students

I updated the school unit flashcards. I thought that adding more words and using nicer clipart would be a bonus for teachers. Many of you have bought it and now you will have both versions. If there are words that you would like me to add, let me know.

More than 250 flashcards for the classroom objects on this resource and just a few tips on how to use them in class. You can use my flashcards or the ones that come with your book series.Link: 
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Use the flashcards to present the school objects vocabulary.

Check the flashcards:

Watch the video using the flashcards.

Flashcards 1. If your students are a little more advanced review there is and there are. Divide the board in two and write the phrases. I used pencil and books.

Teacher: There is a pencil. There are books.

Students can find more flashcards to make more examples.

Flashcards 2. I always find labeling fun. You can do one the board as an example. Label the body parts, clothes and school objects.(Labeling)

Teacher: name the body parts.

Students: mouth! Eyes! Leg!

Teacher: name the clothes.

Students: dress! shoe!

Teacher: name the school objects.

Students: lunch bag! backpack!

Then, assign red for body parts. Ask students to name all the body parts and you circle them. Do the same for clothes and school objects.

Students can do the same using the flashcards. I placed the flashcard into a plastic sheet to go on paperless. Have the students use a blue whiteboard marker for labeling the body parts.

Then, use a black whiteboard marker for labeling the clothes and the school objects.

Flashcards 3. Select a letter of the alphabet and have the students say all the words that start with the letter. As they name the word place the flashcard on the board. Then, have the students do the same on their notebooks with another letter. I chose letter P for this example.

Flashcards 4. Order alphabetically. Write the letters from A to Z on the board and the students find the flashcards to place under each letter.

Flashcards 5. Classroom Monsters. Give a flashcard on a plastic sheet to each student and have them create a monster. I did this one with scissors. I added hair, eyes, nose, mouth, shoes. I guess students are more creative than me, but it will work to show the students the task before they start their own. Students can show their work to the class.

Student: This is my scissors monster. It has black hair. Its eyes are blue and big. It is happy. She is wearing shoes.

Flashcards 6. Sorting the flashcards into categories. I wrote these categories on the board. Students find the flashcards for each category.

Flashcards 7. Name the flashcard. Make a grid on the board using the flashcards. I did this simple one as an example for you.

Teacher: C3!

Students: pencil case!

Flashcards 8. Related words! I placed the pencil case flashcard in the middle of the board. Have the students name all the things that a person can find in a pencil case. As they name the words, place the flashcard or write the word. This is like doing a mind map.

Flashcards 9. Use puzzles when working with the little ones.

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