Zoo animals Small Cards

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Click here:

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Playing with the small cards will have the students master the sense of progress. They can add as many cards with the zoo animals as they wish. These small cards serve as a visual aid. Easy to associate the zoo animal word to the picture.

Print and cut the cards that you will need. There are more than 50 animals to choose from.

Capture your learners' interest and motivation with this simply easy game. Cut the word out of each small card and have the student match the picture to the word. It would be fun to do in small groups helping ELLs remember the new vocabulary.

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Sorting the zoo animals based on their characteristics. This exposure will build a more diverse and rich vocabulary use for your learners. The sorting will be into long/short legs, long/short arms, long/short tail, big/small ears,

Print the labels for the fries’ containers that you have previuusy gathered. Glue onto the containers and open them up for the activity.

Sorting activities are great for language practice, as students need to communicate their reasoning for why they sorted the zoo animals based on their physical characteristics.

 This promotes speaking and listening skills, as well as vocabulary usage when the students discuss where to put the small card. Here is an example of long tools and short tail.

 Students: The lion has a long tail. The rhino has a short tail.

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Sorting activities can be easily adapted to meet the diverse needs of ELLs in the classroom. Pair students accordingly to have a fun and smooth game.

Student1: The gibbon has long arms.
Student 2: the racoon has small arms.

Provide clear instructions and model the sorting processes.
Teacher: The rhino has short legs!
The flamingo has long legs.

Sort the zoo animals with ears into big and small.

Finally, give feedback to your students about their sorting choices.

Here’s the sorting into long or short tails.

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Zoo animals Eat Activity

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Click here: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Zoo-Animals-Flashcards-for-EFL-3611842

Learning about zoo animals and their eating habits makes English learners review the vocabulary related to animals, food, and eating behaviors.

There is a set of small cards in color for making a sorting activity. Includes the animals and the food.

Exploring how zoo animals eat provides English learners the opportunity to describe their observations on what and how the animal’s eating habits. I used a pizza box as a sorting mat.

Place the animal cards on the top line of the box and then have the students place what the animals eat cards under each animal.

 You can also have the learners sort the cards into carnivores, omnivores and herbivores

Teaching English learners about zoo animals incorporates elements of science enhancing their overall knowledge and understanding of the natural world. Use the set of worksheets to do their own sorting mat for these animals.

Exploring how zoo animals eat can stimulate critical thinking as they start coloring and gluing the cards on the cardboard. It can be an individual lesson or a group activity.If your students created one, please show me!

And find here a list of what zoo animals eat.

Print and display the cards to introduce the vocabulary related to what food animals eat. Place several flashcards on the board.
Teacher: What is number 1?
Students: It´s a giraffe.
Teacher: What does the giraffe eat? (Have the students guess and say what they know even if in the native language)
Then, start placing the food cards.
Teacher: The giraffes eat leaves, twigs and fruit. (Emphasize leaves, twigs, fruit).   Continue with the other flashcards.

Place the food cards and have the students place the common animals that eat that food.

Sort the food that the animals eat. Have the students make and write sentences. Give examples.

Teacher: The kangaroo and the elephant eat grass. They don´t eat fish.

Use the cards to review countable and uncountable nouns related to the food the zoo animals eat.

                                       

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The dog and the Prepositions for Elementary ELL

 This resource is included in the Pets Unit for Elementary ELL- Starters

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015

Teaching the Prepositions of location are essential in constructing longer sentences to express the relationship between objects and the pets, in this case I focused on the dogs. Proficiency in prepositions facilitates language development.

Start by printing your dog and the prepositions flashcards to provide clarity to describe spatial relationship with precision using the dog as the center of the activity.

Teacher: The dog is on the bed.

There is a set of cutouts in color and b/w to aid the comprehension of the prepositions. They work well for listening and speaking activities. Have your set ready and the students will create their own by coloring the cutouts and adding an opened clip behind each cutout to have them stand.

Learners will understand instructions and use the cutouts to physically show what was said.

Teacher: The dog is next to the doghouse.

Students can give directions for the class to perform.

Print the quilt mats, it comes with the pictures only and the words only, use it either way. This is my example. I used the picture quilt and cut all the words to do the match. Students will place the preposition word on each picture and say the sentence: The dog is between the dohouse and the ball.

Or use the quilts as cards to match and check the understanding of the new language.

Use the picture cards to play with the puzzle templates. This game will help your students understand the sentence structure, word order and the grammatical rule for the use of prepostions.

A few worksheets to practice writing and understanding sentences with prepositions. Students will show that they are able to comprehend the prepositions effectively.

This is a reading comprehension worksheet that can be easily assigned as independent tasks, promoting self-directed learning to reinforce their reading skills

The worksheets can be used as a review for the students to check the understanding of the prepositions and for you to identify if the learner needs more support.

There is more for the pets unit in the blog:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/01/pets-unit-flashcards-for-elementary-ell.html

I do have another blog for Kindergarten English Language Learners with more resources for the pet unit. Click here:  www.eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com

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

Categories Card Games for Elementary English Language Learners

 Playing categories is beneficial for your students into their vocabulary expansion o4r review. It promotes critical thinking to select the correct category. It is great for word association. Useful for learners that are staring English at the age of six, seven and maybe even older.   Find it here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Categories-Card-Games-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11296159

Print this fun and educational game. The cards have different and relevant categories: school, numbers, toys, pets, rooms of the house, pets, family, face, food.

Shuffle all the cards and place them on a table.

Players can take turns drawing a card and placing it under the category that it belongs.

The game ends when all the cards are under each category. You can have several groups work at the same time by printing several sets.

Adjust the game to your students in class to have the most fun and interaction possible.

You can also make a poster using the cards and bring it in to the class. Have the students play using their notebooks. name a category and have the students write all the words form the units they can recall in a set time. Players can share their set of words and see who could write the most words on that category. Do you have any other idea? Well, please share in the comments box.

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