Sports Small Cards for ESL | Vocabulary and Grammar Activities

 This resource is included here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sports-for-ESL-Vocabulary-and-Grammar-Activities-14663481

The small cards support grammar practice. They are ideal for teaching I like + sports, He is playing + sport, and He plays + sport in a fun, meaningful way. These are ready-to-use visuals that work for whole-class lessons, centers, pair work, or individual practice.

Activity 1. Find Someone Who: Use small cards to ask and answer questions like Do you like volleyball?

Activity 2. Match the Sport and Equipment: Students match the sport flashcard with its equipment card and say a sentence: She has skates for skating.

Activity 3. Sorting Game: Sort sports by ball category.

team sports / individual sports or indoor sports categories.

Sort with the outdoor sports. Have students make up more categories to sort.

Activity 4. Use small sports cards to create sentences: He is playing football.

Activity 5. Writing Sports Sentences (Past Tense Activity)
Students choose a small sports card and write a sentence using the simple past tense to describe the action. For example: She played baseball yesterday. This activity helps learners practice writing complete sentences, review past tense verbs for sports, and connect visuals with grammar in a meaningful way.

Activity 6. Students pick any small sports card and write a sentence to describe it using different grammar structures.

Activity 7. Sports and Facilities Matching Activity
Students match each sport to the place where it is played. After matching, they can say or write simple sentences like You play baseball at a baseball stadium. This activity helps learners connect vocabulary for sports and facilities, practice prepositions of place, and use complete sentences in context.

Here are the most common prepositions of place related to sports and their facilities that your students can practice:

• on – for open flat surfaces
• 🏈 You play soccer on a field.
• 🎾 You play tennis on a court.
• 🏒 You play hockey on the ice.
• in – for enclosed or indoor spaces
• 🏊 You swim in a pool.
• 🏀 You play basketball in a gym.
• 🏋️ You exercise in a gym.
• at – for general places or specific venues
• ⚾ You play baseball at the stadium.
• ⛳ You play golf at the golf course.

 

Activity 8.  Famous Sports Facilities Match
Students investigate the names of famous sports facilities around the world, such as Wimbledon for tennis or Yankee Stadium for baseball. They write the name of each facility on a small piece of paper and match it to the correct sports flashcard or picture. This activity helps students connect real-world examples to the vocabulary while practicing writing and reading skills.

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Counting Vehicles 1 to 20 | ESL Number Words, Numerals, & Quantity Activities

 This resource is included in the Transportation unit for Elementary ESL at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4049752

The resource helps students review essential transportation-related words (e.g., bus, car,) to improve their vocabulary. The topic allows integration with math such as counting vehicles.

Flashcards are a versatile teaching tool to be used in various activities as seen below.

Counting practice using the flashcards. Show a flashcard with vehicles on a road. Ask: “How many cars are there?” Students count and answer: “There are three cars.”  This builds confidence in forming complete sentences.

Place any quantity flashcard and have the students count how many of each vehicle they can count.

Show a flashcard with several vehicles of different colors. Have students make sentences: “The mail truck is white.”

Review Adjectives with Flashcards. Show transportation flashcards and ask students to sort them: The limousine is big!

Practice adjectives related to transportation. Review the comparatives (faster, slower, bigger, smaller).

Flashcard Comparison: Hold up two flashcards and ask students to compare them using comparatives.

Students can practice prepositions of place such as: in front of, behind, next to, between and use them in complete sentences like: The white limousine is behind the red car.

Where’s the Vehicle? Practice prepositions (on, under, next to).

Flashcard Grammar Activity: “I like… but I don’t like…”

Students practice asking and answering questions about transportation using the correct structure and preposition “by.”

Small cards. Labeling helps EFL students expand their vocabulary. This is especially important because vocabulary is the building block of language proficiency.

Students match the quantity small cards with the corresponding numeral flashcards, reinforcing number recognition from 1 to 20.

Transportation Bingo. Give students a bingo grid to write any number from 1 to 20. Call out the names of vehicles using the small cards. Students mark or cover the matching number.

In this interactive activity, students color the vehicles according to how you dictate, then cut them out and fold the flap provided to glue them onto the road worksheet. Students can decide how many vehicles to place and where to position them on the road. After creating their road scene, they write a short description using complete sentences. They describe the vehicles, their colors, their locations using prepositions, and add adjectives to make their sentences more descriptive.

Assemble like this!

 Read and Color the Vehicles worksheet where they read a phrase and color each vehicle according to the text.

Matching exercises Worksheet: Match transportation words to pictures.

Labeling activities Worksheets: Students label vehicles and the number on these two worksheets.

A board game with four paths to encourage speaking. Players talk during the game using full sentences like “This is number twelve!”

Matching mats give students a clear visual framework to sort and match different representations of numbers.

Students color the vehicles on their worksheet according to the number they spin on the spinner. They must count and color the correct quantity based on the spinner result. Use it to practice number recognition (1–20)

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Thanksgiving Colors Activities for Elementary ESL | Flashcards, Games, Worksheets & Puzzle

 This Thanksgiving colors ESL resource is also included here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colors-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-3629423

Reviewing colors in a Thanksgiving setting introduces cultural elements while keeping vocabulary familiar. It gives learners an opportunity to use English meaningfully while exploring traditions.

The Thanksgiving monster help students with vocabulary retention. Students can write sentences about each monster Flashcard.

The flashcards can be sorted into person or thing.

Small cards can be used them for matching activities that keep students engaged while practicing language.

Color Match and Say. Place the pumpkin pie color cards face up. Give students color word cards (or say a color aloud). Students find and point to or hold up the matching pumpkin pie, saying:  “This is the orange pumpkin pie.”  “I see a brown pumpkin pie.”

Thanksgiving colors worksheets 1. Students read or listen and color the pies correctly.
Skills: reading comprehension, color recognition, following directions.

Worksheet 2. Seeing the color word and applying it through coloring helps students remember it better. If possible go over the items in a cornucopia.

Worksheet 3. The tasks are simple and achievable, giving young learners confidence as they correctly follow instructions and see a colorful final product they can be proud of.

Thanksgiving Colors Puzzle Game. Students practice reading simple color phrases repeatedly, helping them recognize sight words like a, blue, red, and pumpkin.

Thanksgiving Colors Board Game.  Students take turns rolling a die and moving along the path filled with colorful pumpkins. When they land on a space, they read the color word or sentence aloud — for example, “a green pumpkin” or “This pumpkin is orange.”

The teacher can also ask students to find and show the matching color card or color a small pumpkin on their pumpkin worksheet, seen above.

A pocket chart activity with color phrases like “a red pie” is perfect for hands-on sentence building and reading practice. Once all matches are made, read them together as a class for pronunciation and rhythm practice.

Including letter tiles for writing color words adds a strong literacy and spelling component to your lesson plan. Students practice letter recognition and sound-letter connections while building color words. These are reusable for other Thanksgiving lessons.

Thanksgiving Colors “Feed Me Box” Activity. Prepare the box using the pumpkin pie template. Students cut out the pumpkin pies from the worksheet — each one showing a different color. The teacher places the box at the front of the class or at a learning station.

Teacher: A blue pumpkin pie!

Students find the matching pumpkin pie and “feed” the box by dropping it inside.

Encourage students to say the sentence as they feed it, for example:
 “This is a green pie.”

Continue until the box is full of deliciously colorful pies!

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