Rooms of the house for Elementary English Teachers

 This resource is included in the House Unit available here: 

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Using this resource with your students they will be able to understand and produce in an oral form the parts of the house using the simple present (grammar). They will learn to ask questions and use the preposition of place with the family members.

Introduce the home vocabulary. Place the house flashcard in the middle of the board. Teach the new word of the unit creating a mind map.

Start adding the rooms of the house for your students to repeat.

Teacher: This is the bathroom!

Students: bathroom!

Students can look, point to each room of the house and say each word: bedroom!

Talk about the color of the rooms. Teacher: What color is the bathroom?

Students: blue!

Teacher: What color is the bathroom in your house?

Students: It’s gray!

By now, the students should be able to identify and name the parts of the house. They can say which one is their favorite room in the house.

Teacher: What’s your favorite room in the house?

Student 1: The bathroom.

Tally the answers and draw conclusions of the results with your class.

Teacher: What was the favorite room in the house?

Student 1: the dining room.

Make connections with prior knowledge.The Family Members are in the house. Students will be able to state where the family members are. It is a good moment to revise the family members vocabulary. Make an emphasis to the phrase in the (room)
Stick the flashcards on the board and an arrow to a room and say a sentence: Mother is in the bathroom.
Elicit who they see and where they are. Review the pronouns he and she.
Ask questions: Where is father?
Students: He is in the living room.

Place only the parts of the house flashcards on the board and hand in a family member to seven students. They have to listen to your sentences to where they to put them.

Teacher: Father is in the living room.

Then, ask questions: Where is grandpa?

Students: He’s in the kitchen.

Teacher: Is grandma in the bathroom?

Students: yes, she is.

Teacher: Is the baby in the garden?

Students: No, he isn’t.

Review the key language by Playing this guessing game.  Place a family member with an arrow that goes to a room of a house, but cover the flashcard of the family member or put in backwards. Have students ask yes/no questions: Is mother in the garden?
Teacher: NO! Guess again!
Students: Is sister in the garden?
Teacher: yes!! Uncover the family member.
Continue with more.

Display the rooms of the house flashcards in different parts of the classroom. Select 6 students to go to one of the them: Pedro, go to the kitchen!

When all the students are at a room ask questions: Lily, where are you?
Lily: I am in the living room.

Talk about your house. Present there is and there are for this activity. Try to create a house map and place several bedrooms and bathrooms. Teacher: There are 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms in the house. There is a living room, a dining room and a kitchen.
Ask negative questions: Are there four kitchens?
Students: NO! There aren’t four kitchens. There is one.
Have several students come and place the flashcards to represent their home.

I have checked several text books and I haven’t seen the parts of the house in the scope and sequence. But I will include the flashcards in the resource. Just make a simple mind map to introduce the new words: roof, door, chimney, window using the  flashcards.

There is a set of several houses with different colors and with roofs, chimneys, doors and windows in different color condition. Have your students do sorting on the board or on the table. Students can sort by color the chimney.

It can also be the doors.

Try with the Windows.

Hope you print your flashcards and provide your students with games and activities for practising the new vocabulary.

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Family unit Flashcards for the Elementary English Language Learner

                            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

Find easy-to-implement strategies for a rich learning environment with these family unit visuals.The focus is on teaching English EFL (as a Foreign Language) it can also be used for ESL/ELL/ELA.

Use the flashcards to introduce structures and the new vocabulary.Create speaking lessons to develop fluency based on any activity proposed here. Introduce the question word:WHO? to ask about people.

Introduce the family members vocabulary.
Teacher: This is father.
This is my mother.
Students can identify family members: Who’s this?
Students: He is the brother.

Develop speaking skills with this activity. Have the students understand and use this/that to introduce a family member. Hand in family members flashcards to several students to adopt that person. Assign a student to introduce them to the class: 

This is my brother. His name is Tomas.
That is my sister. Her name is Rose.

Give information about the family members as communication goes first. Divide the board in two and create a small family and a big family on each side of the board.
Teacher: This is a small family. It’s mother, father, brother and sister.

Teacher: This family is big. Let’s count.

Students can count the members of their family and write it down on piece of paper.
Ask questions: How many people are there in your family?
Student: five.
Ask questions: How many brothers do you have?
Student: two.

You can also assign a last name to each family. For example: This is the Blonde Family. This is the Red Family.

Assign the sister or any other family member flashcard in the middle of the board.  Give her a name, I chose Carol. Make kind of a mind map. Talk about possession: This is Carol’s mother. Continue introducing the family member.

Ask questions: Who’s this?
Students: This is Carol’s father.
Ask questions: Who’s that?
Students: That is Carol’s brother.
Teacher: Is this Carol’s grandpa?
Students: No, it’s Carol’s father.
Understand the names of the people of the family. Students can also give names to people in Carol’s family.
 What’s Carol’s mother name?
Students: Luisa! (write down the name on the board)

Talk about the physical appearance of the family members. Select several flashcards of family members with different hair color.
Teacher: Look at father. What color is his hair?
Students: blond! He has blond hair.
Teacher: Who has brown hair?
Students: Mother!
Teacher: Does the sister have black or red hair?
Student: red hair!

Show the words big and little to introduce the brothers and sisters using the focus vocabulary.

Call out a name of someone in your class. They must stand up and tell everyone a fact about their family. For example: My mother’s name is Anna.’

 Jumbled names Activity. Write the word for each family member with the letters jumbled on the board. For example: emtorh (Mother) Hand in the individual flashcards to the students. Make sure that you include all students as you have a flashcard for each one. At your signal the students have to come up to the board and place their family member under the jumbled word.

Introduce the adjectives such as young or old to describe the family members. Discuss with your students why they are sorting the people into these adjectives.
Teacher: Grandmother is old.
Students: The baby is young.

Using adjectives when speaking will help studentsdescribe people using words.

Also do the adjectives tall and short to describe family members.

Next part will be the Family Unit small cards.

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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.

Next part will be the Face Unit small cards.

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Numbers 1 to 20 Flashcards for Elementary English Language Learners

   This resource is part of the Numbers Unit 1 to 20 for Elementary English Language Learnes-Starters. Right here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Numbers-1-to-20-for-Elementary-EFL-3640162

Numbers Flashcards to level up Language Acquisition.

As the students come to our class they have quite mastered Number Sense of 1 to 20. Teach your students the core vocabulary to count and write up to 20. Use the flashcards to have the students participate actively in class by answering questions about quantity.
 I created these flashcards to do mainly listening and speaking practice. The main objective will be that students recognize the numbers 1 to 20. 
Ask questions: What number is this?
Students: fifteen!
Teacher: Is this number twelve?
Students: Yes, it is!

Present the grammar structures using the visually appealing flashcards.

Make a grid on the board and write a number 1 to 20 in random order on any flashcard that you choose. Say a number and have the students say the item or say the item and students say the number.
Teacher: number sixteen!
Students: crayon!
Teacher: Is number nineteen a pencil or marker?
Students: a pencil!
Model sentences: Number 10 is a book.
Students: Number 20 is a pen!
Include colors in the next sentences: Number 16 is a green crayon.
Students: Number 13 is a pink eraser.
You can also model: There is a brown ruler.
Students: There is a purple marker.

Introduce the plural form of the words using numbers and school flashcards.Introduce the question words to ask about quantity: How many?

Ask: How many sharpeners are there? Let’s count, one, two, three, four, five. Five sharpeners!

 Emphasize the final S and write it with another color on the board.

Have the students count the classroom objects, such as chairs, tables, pencils or any other that you can think of.

Create a number series. Dictate the numbers and have the students write the numbers they listen on their notebooks. Then, put the flashcards on the board and have the students check if they wrote it right.

Write a number word chain on the board. Have the students circle the number words and place the number flashcards under each word.

Order the flashcards from 1 to 20. Hand in the flashcards and have the students order them on the board. Or hand them in randomly one to each student and at your signal have them stand up and order themselves.

Hand in all the flashcards in random order. At your signal, have the class line up with the correct number order. Then, they step forward and say the number they have on their flashcard.
Student: I’m number twelve.
 
Have the students help sort the flashcards into odd and even.
Teacher: Number 14 !
Student: Even!
Teacher: Say the odd numbers!
Students: one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, nineteen.
Teacher: What is the even number before 10?
Students: eight!
Teacher: What is the odd number after 17?
Students: eighteen!
 
Mix up all the cards, hand one to each student. Designate a place for the odd numbers and another for the even numbers. At your signal, the students stand and go to the designated area and stand in order. The first to it correctly wins!

Have the students organize the flashcards on the board as skip counting by 2´s.
Teacher: Let´s skip count by 2´s.
Students: 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20. ( Point as they say the number)
Do the same as skip counting by 5´s.

I am/You are Number activity. Build in speaking practice for your students through your lesson plan.

Hand in the flashcards to all the students.
Teacher: I am Number 9. (Hold your flashcard and point to yourself)
Student: I am number 19.
Continue until everyone has introduced their number.
Teacher: You are Number 15.( Pointing to the student with the flashcard number 15)
Student: You are number 7.( Pointing to the student with the flashcard number 7, next to him/her.)
Teacher: who is Number 12 ?
Students: Mary !

Rote counting. Place all the flashcards on the board to help guide the students. Use the point finger to indicate where to start the rote counting.
Teacher: Let´s count back by 1´s starting at number 20.
Students: 20,19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.
Teacher: Let´s count to 20 starting at number 7.
Students: 7,8,9,10,11,12,1,3,14,15,1,6,17,1,8,1,9,20.
Teacher: Let´s count back to number 6starting at number 19.
Students:19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6.

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