Food unit Games for Elementary English Language Starters

 This resource is part of the Food Unit for Elementary English Language Starters to prepare your bank of games and activities for your lesson plan.

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Games are a valuable and flexible teaching tool in the English Language class. Adapt the games to suit the language proficiency of your students, to their specific needs and abilities. Promote social competence between your learners.

Take a look of the ones included in this resource.

This Linguistic competence game in which the students will match the word to a picture of a food or drink item accommodates to the different learning styles present in our classrooms. This game caters to visual learners effectively to build meaning.

Help your students with memorization and you know the perfect game for that: MEMORY!

Using the same cards to play the grammar bags. Find two lunch bags and glue the words countable and uncountable nouns. Students will sort the cards and justify why based on how you taught them. An easy game to promote pair or group interaction.

A similar game is with this food quilt to associate the word to the picture.

Board games can be used to reinforce grammar rules. You can use it to review the countable and uncountable nouns, for example. Besides the board and the game pieces there is a set of cards that students will collect once they get to say if the noun is countable or uncountable. Communication systems will activate with a speaker and listener interaction.

This descriptive sentence game is fun as the students will draw what they managed to write using the cards and then transcribing on the worksheet. They can add more sentences to develop writing skills. This kind of activity encourages the use of more varied vocabulary. They can explore writing more sentences.

Print the food unit domino tiles to promote language acquisition by engaging the students to play. They will be speaking and interacting as the tiles come with words and pictures.

Food Unit Sentence association cards are great as a visual aid for many learners. They will associate a sentence to any picture on the cards. Students will use the visual context to relate to the sentences on the cards. This is an enjoyable and motivating extra activity.

Further practice as a spelling activity using the cheese letter tiles to write the food words. Students will touch the cards enhancing retention of the new vocabulary.

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Rooms of the house Printable Games

                     This resource is included in the House Unit available here: 

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These printables games will provide the house scenarios for the context that students need for language use. It is a fun and easy way to practice what they learned in a more meaningful situation, enhancing their comprehension and retention of the new language in this unit.

House Unit Sentence association game. Students will associate each picture card to the corresponding sentence. The learners will develop a better understanding of the context of the people in the house.This game can be played in small groups to promote interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Students will display the picture cards and the sentences on both sides of a desk or floor. Then, they start connecting all the cards to their corresponding sentence as they will develop a better understanding of the people in the rooms of the house. The result comes with a better comprehension and improvement of the overall language skills.

Visual Writing. Give the students the cards and have them write sentences for each one. They will write about what they see. Ask them questions about the picture to stimulate writing and their imagination. The colorful pictures are age -appropriate and relevant to the vocabulary plus grammar for the house unit. There is a clear representation of the family members and children in different rooms of the house.

Students can play matching the text that the classmates wrote to the pictures. And check  all 40 cards available: 

Descriptive sentences cards. These cards are great to practice writing clear and effective sentences that will enhance their communication skill. Display all the cards to aid students into writing a sentence. There are also blank cards to write any other word. Then, students will write their sentences and draw.

Rooms of the house Domino. The game will expose the students to the vocabulary as they match the pictures of a room scene, helping to expand the language learned.

Board games involve the use of spaces with pictures. Students will say a sentence or phrase in order to move in the board to make it even more meaningful: Brother is in the bathroom.

Pocket charts for the house unit. This works well for your visual learners. They are useful for organizing the sentences in a clear and structured manner. Students can then write the sentences on their notebooks.

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Family Unit Games for Elementary ELL

         This resource is included in the Family Unit for Elementary English Language Learners-Starters.   Click here:     https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Activities-for-Elementary-ELL-1804475

Cognitive and social skills are at play with the board games. Just print the motivating activities as many as you need for 4 students. It comes with golf balls as markers, students will get to chose their favorite color to play. I added an open clip behind each one to make it stand. The board game has a light green and dark green spaces. Depending on where the student lands, he/she will take that color card and answer the question in order to move on the board.

This descriptive sentence activity with cards helps with writing rich, detailed sentences. Students will write their sentences first using the cards and putting in as many words or cards as possible. Then, they will write all the sentences and draw /color the person that they described.

Using adjectives to write sentences is essential for effective communication, either when writing or speaking.

An old family unit domino game that I couldn’t leave behind. Use it as an assessment tool to see how your students can interact and use active vocabulary during gameplay.

A matching words and picture quilt. Students will match the family member word, the adjectives tall and short, young and old to each picture in the quilt. You will check their comprehension as they associate the words to the picture.

A pocket chart set is here to aid the students to write sentences related to the hair color in each family member.  It will promote interaction between peers to complete the sentences.

Spelling is a fundamental aspect of written communication. Do this  spelling activity with this robot family set of cards. Students will write all the words in Capitals for attention and maybe fun!

Place the template with the cards that you want to practice inside a clear plastic sheet and have the students write the words using whiteboard markers in different colors and then erase for future use.

Letters for writing words. Another spelling activity for building confidence. Just print the letters, as many as you need and have students use the small cards as a reference.

Next part will be the Family Unit book.

 

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Day 5 of the 31 days of Halloween 2020 New Resources for ESL or EFL Students

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Day 5.  Domino Game printable!!  

Easy for today. Just print the game and it will work for any age students for lots of fun!

                                          

I am sure you can think of more games and activities, leave me your idea below. And check out more games for Halloween.

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Fruit and Vegetable Theme

I joined both themes, 4 fruit (apple,banana,pear,orange) and 4 veggies
( onion, carrot, potato,tomato).

Link to all resources to keep students engaged during the language learning process:         https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetable-Activities-for-Elementary-ELLs-2371980

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Nothing like flashcards to introduce the vocabulary words.

GRAPHING.Show the flashcards in random order and one at a time. Have the students stand up if they like the item on the flashcard. Have a student write the results on the board.

Teacher: How many students like apples?

Students: four students!

Use this Domino Game to maintain the learner´s interest.

The cutouts help to create the contexts in which the vocabulary words become meaningful. The students will participate in a conversation by expressing information.

You can print all the puzzle pieces in 11 different colored construction paper. Place a fruit or vegetable on each color.

Teacher: Where is the onion ?

Student: It is on yellow.

Teacher: What is next to the onion ?

Student: a potato on blue.

Teacher: pear!

Student: on orange.

Use the cutouts for introducing This/ These.

 And for sorting fruit and vegetables. Hand in all the cutouts to random students. Write fruit and vegetables on the board and tell them that at your signal they have to run to the board and place them where they belong.

And for more practice of the vocabulary words ,a match game. Make it motivating.  Provide more language practice using the cards in speaking and listening. It can be a game played in pairs asking simple questions. Student 1 who asks the questions has to place the cards in a Yes pile or a No pile, then see how many cards are in each pile.

Student 1: Do you like bananas ? 

Student 2: Yes, I do/ No, I don´t.

And for reading and writing.

Make a print of the cards for each group in class. Have the children in the group shuffle all the cards and place them face down on the table. One student turns two cards and reads or says what is on each card. If the cards are a match, he/she keeps them. If not, the cards must be returned to the table. All students must play. When all the cards are gone from the table, the students have to write a sentence on their notebooks with the cards they have.

Encourage students to interact with the shopping lists. Print all the cutouts or have play food toys available in class. One group will be the shoppers and another will be the sellers. You can have many shops and many shoppers. Hand in each student a shopping list card and the other group the food, not all the food has to be available in all the shops.

The buyers have to go to shopping.

Student Shopper: Do you have tomatoes?

Student Seller: Yes, I do. Here!

Student Shopper: Do you have bananas ?

Student Seller: No, I don´t. Sorry! ( moves on to another shop)

I know that you are always looking for worksheets. Here are 6 of them. Worksheets are good for individual quiet time. Go around asking questions about the pictures. Use them to review written grammar points.  Do your own worksheets and place them on the board so the students can do self-check.

Worksheet 1 and 2:

Worksheet 3 and 4:

  

Worksheet 5 and 6:

Pocket charts are good for students that finish first and need more activities. If you don´t have a pocket chart just have them do the matching on a table or the floor.

There is a fruit and vegetable BUNDLE resource here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetable-unit-BUNDLE-for-ESL-6800542