“Fun on the Farm: Engaging ESL Learners with Hands-On Farm Games”

 This resource is included here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Farm-Unit-for-Elementary-EFL-3790548

Games are a powerful tool for language learning. That’s why I included several interactive farm-themed games in this resource!

Card Games encourage students to speak, listen, read, and think in English in an authentic way. Whether they’re identifying animals, matching vocabulary, or making sentences.

By spelling out farm animal names like horse, duck, sheep, and goat, students are reviewing the words they're learning in a new and tactile way. Draw an animal card, and students race to build the word using letter tiles.

With four starting points, students follow the path on the board game, landing on colored spaces and answering questions that match the color using the corresponding cards. Set up groups of 2–4 students and assign each group a board. Instruct a follow-Up Writing where students write 2–3 sentences about their favorite animal they landed on during the game.

Sorting helps students understand how things are grouped and connected, which is key for building comprehension and academic thinking.  This farm resource includes several sorting mats, such as:

Mommy and Baby Animals

Animal and the Product It Produces

Animal Sounds (Moo, Baa, Oink, etc.)

Farm Headband Game Cards.

Whether you use store-bought headbands or make simple paper ones, this activity is guaranteed to get your students engaged. Each card features a farm animal image, and students wear the card on their head without seeing it, while their classmates give clues.

Encourages Descriptive Language
Clue-givers use descriptions like:“It says moo.”“It gives us milk.”“It’s black and white.” 

This matching game helps students explore farm life by pairing each animal with what it eats. Students learn not just the animal names, but words like grass, hay, corn, worms, grain, insects, and carrots—expanding their word bank around the farm theme. Lay out all the animals and food cards. Students match them in pairs (cow → grass, pig → corn, chicken → worms).

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“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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"Interactive Learning with Small Cards: Engaging Farm Animal Activities for ELLs"

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Print the farm unit small cards to offer even more flexibility for interactive learning. Find in this post engaging activities to help students build farm vocabulary, speaking skills, and sentence structures! Small cards allow students to manipulate and interact with the vocabulary rather than just observing.

Small Card Writing Activity. Have learners select 4 small cards and write a short text on their notebooks. By selecting four cards, students must think critically about how to connect the words into a meaningful sentence or short text.

 Encourage Pair and Group Work as students sort the cards into 2 or 4 legs farm animals. Students can also categorize the animals into Big or Small. Grouping words into meaningful categories helps students remember and recall vocabulary more easily.

Small cards are great for students to work independently or with a partner to sort the animals into mommy and baby. As students discuss their choices, they practice explaining, reasoning, and using key phrases (e.g., "The horse is the mommy." "The foal is the baby.")

Sorting farm animals by products introduces basic classification skills that support early science learning. Review the farm-to-table connections (e.g., cows → milk). Model sentences: "A cow gives us milk." Students will make more sentences as they match the cards.

Use the small cards as a Bingo caller deck. Have students write 6 or 8 words on their notebooks from all the small cards that are displayed on the board or table. They will mark their matching words as they are called.

Students write on the speech bubbles (available on the resource) what Sound the animal makes (Moo, Baa, Cluck). This helps linking phonetic awareness with written words. Students can practice reading their speech bubbles aloud, reinforcing pronunciation and speaking confidence.

A video!!

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Farm Animals Flashcards

 This resource for Primary School English teacher is included here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Farm-Unit-for-Elementary-EFL-3790548

Flashcards are a powerful tool when introducing the farm animals and farm life. They provide visual support, interactive learning, and repeated exposure, all essential for language acquisition.

Repeat vocabulary through activities that helps students retain new words as a way for speaking with your elementary ELLs..

Favorite farm animal graph. Place the flashcards on the board. Ask: "What is your favorite farm animal?" Have each student pick a flashcard with the animal they like the most,
and says: "My favorite farm animal is the cow."
Then have the students talk about the results.
Teacher: Which is Emily´s favorite animal?
Students: rooster!
Teacher: Who likes the cow?
Students: Will and David!

Possessive nouns. Place the farmer flashcard in the middle of the board and all flashcards that belongs to the farmer as in a mind map. Model a sentence.

Teacher: Who is she?
Students: the farmer.
Teacher: This is the farmer´s tractor.
Teacher: What is this?
Students: It's a barn.
Teacher: Whose barn is this?
Students: It's the farmer's barn.

Baby animals. Display the adult animal flashcards on one side of the board and the baby animals on the other side.
Play the game Guess Who? with the flashcards.
Teacher: It´s pink. It´s small. oink!
Students: the pig !
Teacher: NO!
Students: The piglet!
Teacher: YES! 

Farmyard Mystery for animal products – Place several flashcards on the board. Create a mind map by placing each animal's produce under each arrow.
Teacher:   COW!
Students: milk.
What do farm animals give. Here´s my list:

Farm animals eat!

Flashcard Sound Hunt – Hide flashcards around the room. When students find one, they must say the sound the animal makes and name it before giving it to you to place on the board with the sound word.

"Guess the Farm Animal" Grid Game. This grid-based guessing game turns learning farm animal vocabulary into an exciting challenge. Prepare a grid with farm animals in different squares on the board.
Teacher: They are yellow! They are green and brown. There are nine.
Students: B1!! The ducks.

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Total Physical Response for Elementary ELL

 A lot has been said about Total Physical Response. Teachers usually do it at the beginning of the school year with their students. It has so many benefits for you and the learner.

I have done it with my classes and even more with the Kindergarten students. It's a way for no translation to the native language. I used to make flashcards with magazine cutouts, yes! no printer around those days. I moved on to make flashcards using clip art, the ones available for FREE. Nowadays, I have included the Commands Flashcards on all the resources from the Kindergarten Series 1 to 30.

So, if you are teaching the Farm Unit, review, reinforce or introduce the classroom commands using the Flashcards.

Teacher: Stand up like the pig!

             Sit down like the sheep! 

         There's also the goat, the cow, the horse and the hen.
             Here is the blog post for more on the flashcards:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2022/04/farm-unit-flashcards-for-kindergarten.html

If you have new students, the Greetings unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners have the very basics Classroom Commands that you can place around your classroom. LINK: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/08/greetings-theme-for-kindergarten.html

Show your students a command flashcard and have the class mime the action. These are great for those first weeks of the school year. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colors-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-2-5956256

There are units that we can use TPR using the flashcards to review the new vocabulary. Here is an example:  Place several Town unit flashcards around the classroom. Show the students the command flashcard and have them go to that place doing the action.

Teacher: Run to the post office!

LINK: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/11/town-unit-flashcards-for-kindergarten.html

You can bring the Commands Flashcards for the Playground unit to the playground. Use them to have the students mime each action that they do in the playground.
        Teacher: run! (students mime running in the class)     

LINK: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/10/park-playground-unit-flashcards-for.html                                           

           

A lot of more examples at my other blog for Kindergarten English Language Learners that can be used for older students with success. Take a look: https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/

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