Board games for Elementary English Language Learners

 Find a themed game board in each unit for teaching elementary English language learners. This kind of games are very engaging and interactive for your students. You can adapt all the games to suit your players to encourage participation.

Is this something that you include in your lesson plan? Maybe not? Would like to? Well, read and see if you are up for it.

Use the board games as a review of the new vocabulary of the unit. It is a fun repetition of the words. The markers are also included with each board game. So, just grab the dice. Each space has a color. Players have to move along the path. When they land on a space, they have to say the name of that color and show an item in that color.

Create a motivated and positive classroom atmosphere, where students know that there will be an enjoyable learning game to wrap up the class. Players will describe the colors of the space they landed on besides the number: It’s an orange twelve.

Games help with memory skills that are crucial for English language retention. That’s another reason for printing and having the games ready to play. The objective of the game is to navigate through the various spaces on the game board, learning and practicing vocabulary related to different facial features.

Board games are a very informal way of assessing your student’s language proficiency in communicating. Are they using the language enough? Are they struggling to move along the board?

Players will navigate through the various spaces on the game board, answering questions related to family members with the cards in the game, light or dark green.

Another House unit activiti with a board game.Players will move their family members game pieces by correctly identifying the rooms of the house. The first player to reach the finish line wins.

Add a twist to the pet unit board game, but it works with any other theme. Players have to describe the pet they landed on in order to take that pet into their pet shop.

Students can do more than just identifying the word but saying a phrase or complete sentence in order to get the food card. The more food cards a player has, he/she is the winner.

Players move their game pieces around the Toyland game board, by completing challenges such as miming how to play with the toys they land on.

All the board games are included in each unit and in the Bundle, right here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elementary-English-Language-learners-teaching-Units-Starters-BUNDLE-11215540

Graphing for Elementary English Language Learners

 Include graphing in your lesson plan as a valuable teaching tool for your students to integrate English and Math.

It will enhance the understanding of mathematical concepts such as counting.

It will promote language development. Students will express themselves orally to show their opinion. Ask questions about the graphs

It will foster critical thinking skills where the students will compare, contrast and draw conclusions about the results.

It will provide an engaging learning experience. It is an interactive activity. Students will manipulate the data and interpret the results.

Show the visual representation of the results on the board.

Adapt the graph to the different students that you have in class.

The resource is available here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Graphing-Worksheets-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11309998

Check these ideas:

The favorite toy worksheet can lead to a speaking activity. They will draw their favorite toy and write a short text. When all the worksheets are done, have the children walk around and find another student or group of students with the same favorite toy. Stand together. Then, graph the results.

Teacher: How many trains are the favorite?
Students: two!

Graphing the favorite food. Do this one as a simple survey by placing the options on the board, using the flashcards: pizza, hamburger, chicken, fries, hot dog, salad. Create a bar graph on the board as they will come with their worksheet and place it under their option bar. Tally the results.

Here is another example with the pet unit to make a bar graph on the board, to add variety have the students write sentences about the favorite pet winner, such as: The favorite pet is the dog. I like dogs.

There is a worksheet to do a pet ownership graph. Students will draw the pet they have at home.  Grap showing the number of students who have dogs, cats, etc. And students with no pets at home.

The favorite room of the house can be graphed, but add the variant of the color. Tell your students to color the room of their choice. You will count the favorite room and the color as well.

Use the number of rooms of the house worksheet to graph. Discuss with your students that homes have different quantities of rooms. Graph by writing the numbers 1 to 5 for bedrooms basically which will vary in the results

Make a list of the school objects for the favorite items. They have to choose from the list and draw on the worksheet. Do the graph as survey. Each student will stand up with the worksheet and say: My favorite worksheets is the pencil.

Create a tally chart to record the number of votes for each school subject.

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.

I hope you include any of these graph ideas into your lesson plan. All the worksheets are included in each unit resource. All of them are in the BUNDLE:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elementary-English-Language-learners-teaching-Units-Starters-BUNDLE-11215540

If you have any other graphing option, let me know! Just write a comment below.

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Face unit Worksheets for Elementary EFL

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Face Worksheets  to promote active learning or they can be used for progress evaluation .

The worksheets can provide an easy assessment of the basic vocabulary for the parts of the face. Students will read the word and draw over the over the corresponding item. It would be fun to see how they solve the problem.

Use the worksheets for revision of the new vocabulary and the facial adjectives, starting with left and right eye. Students can trace the colors words and the adjectives besides coloring accordingly.

By teaching these adjectives you will encourage critical thinking, yes! Students will use the correct word to describe a specific quality of a part of the face.

This worksheet will reinforce the adjective to describe the hair color and the length with this worksheet.

Use any of the worksheets to create a Bingo game. Students will cut several of the playing items on the grid and you will use the worksheets as your calling cards or the flashcards/small cards.

These worksheets are here to reinforce hair textures (curly or straight), size (big or small) and quantities of facial parts (one or two), adding more adjective practice.

Send in some homework with these easy crafty worksheets. Students will personalize the worksheets using different materials using magazine cutouts to complete a face, they can draw or use yarn and mobile eyes. Make it a writing training activity as well.

The crazy hair worksheet can be done in small groups for cooperation in reading and listening. It promotes problem solving skills to understand people description.Students will not write on the colored worksheet with the crazy hair people. They will work in pairs as one student reads and the other has to find the number on the crazy hair kid and dictate it. It works on the recycling of the previously learned numbers 1 1o 13.

I loved these characters so much that I want to do more with them. I cut all the sentences and the images, then I added Velcro con the images. I glued the sentences onto cardboard and the other piece of the matching Velcro.  Well, students have to attach the image to each sentence.

Some worksheets work for independent learning. This is a labeling the parts of the face easy to do worksheet for accuracy practice.

This is a set of creative drawing task worksheets. This is an example with the eraser, but there is a pencil, a bottle of glue and other read and draw kind of worksheets to stimlulate writing.

Supplement any grammar point beyond the text book, in this case practice the possessive adjectives- his and her- with the hair to establish ownership.Students will work on being an independent learner to identify the correct hair color.

Engage your students into counting and coloring eyes with these Monsters. This a review of the numbes, it can be used as a self-evaluation worksheet activity.

Develop your students’ language skills even further with these numbers coloring worksheet.Worksheets are geared into developing the problem solving skill.

A little interaction as students ask questions to classmates and complete the questionnaire, leading them to express thmeselves.

Students survey their classmates to collect data on hair and eye colors using the worksheets. This can be an informal assessment for the unit. Students can analyze with another group the data by comparing the frequencies of the different eye and hair color.

A little spelling competition! Students have to recall the face words that start with each letter from the worksheet and write them inside. They can work together and work in a collaborative way. They can even find more face words in a dictionary.

Here are all the worksheets included in the resource:

Next part will be the Face Unit games.

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Face unit Flashcards for Elementary EFL

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The flashcards apply for a range of activities to include the 4 skills such as listening/speaking and reading/writing, but not leaving behind grammar and vocaubulary.

Facial features, adjectives for physical description

Introduce the physical appearance vocabulary.

Show a face part flashcard and have the students touch that part of the face and say the word. Listening the action helps internalize the new language.

Teacher: Touch your mouth! (Show the flashcard ) 

Play sit down. Show a facial feature flashcard as you say a statement.
Teacher: If you have gray hair, sit down! (Obviously no one will sit down)
If you have green eyes, sit down.
If you long red hair, sit down.
Continue with all the hair color /length and eyes. The winners will be the last one standing. Have the students say why they are the winners.
Students: He/she has short blonde hair and blue eyes.

Critical thinking is in use when students will analyse the flashcards. Practice the question word: What color?

Ask questions: What color is her hair?
Students: red!
Teacher: Does she have brown hair?
Students: Yes, she does.
Teacher: Does Tom have gray hair?
Students: No, he doesn’t.
Teacher: Who has blonde hair?
Students: Luca.

Discuss about hair length. Sort the flashcard by short and long.

Ask questions:
Teacher: Who has long hair?
Students: Sophia, Olivia, Emma and Amelia.
Teacher: Who has short hair?
Students: Owen.
Ask questions using color and length: Who has short blond hair?
Students: Ava.
Have your students describe themselves: I have long brown hair. Ask questions about their physical appearance.

You can continue working on this for more speaking practice with your students to gain confidence. Hand in the people mat to each student or group of students. Place it inside a clear plastic sheet for your students to check or write on it and erase it easily.
Describe a person and have the students guess the person and cross out on the mat: He has short black hair.
Students: Tom!
Have your students describe another person for the class to guess: She has long red hair!
students: Emma!
Then, students can play in pairs or small groups.

Play a little more with your students with these fun crazy hair flashcards. Kids have weird hairdo and colors. Say a sentence and students have to say the number of that person.

Teacher: She has purple hair!
Students: She’s number seven!
Say it backwards: Number twelve!
Teacher: He has orange hair.

Use the flashcards to graph from the color and length of the hair of the people in class and even more. Place them on the board and ask questions:
Who has black long hair?
Students: Olivia and Leny.

It can be graphing the curly and straight hair. Have the students come and stand under each flashcard and say how they look: I have straight hair.

And don’t miss graphing the eye color.

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