Greetings and Farewwells Resource

 Greetings and Farewwells Resource

This ELementary English teacher resource is for teaching starters or Elementary English Language Learners. It comes with flashcards, small cards, worksheets and a flap book with a focus on promoting communicate language.

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This is usually the first class with your Elementary English Language Learners. Prepare your students to use greetings and introductions.Prepare your students for cultural awareness.

Greet your students with your hand as you wave your hand to say Hello! Or hi! Have the class greet each other.

Introduce yourself by writing your name on the board and touching yourself and saying: My name’s _____.

Greetings Unit Flashcards

Use the downloadable Greetings flashcards for the language functions on how to use the greetings: Hi!, Hello! And to introduce oneself.

Impulse communication skills. Put the Greetings flashcards around the classroom. Point to one and say:

Hi, I am Tina.

Encourage your students to point to other flashcards and read the sentence and say a similar one to introduce themselves.

Display any of the flashcards with simple dialogues around the room and say the word or sentence. Have a student go and point to the correct one. Perfect for language practice.

Place the flashcards on the board or a clear plastic sheet and introduce the contraction: I'm. Have the students do the same with each flashcard as a reinforcement.

There is a set small cards for easy printing or small groups teaching. Cut the words out of the card. Place the picture part around the classroom and hand in the written part strip to each student. Have them walk around matching to the picture.

Then, ask questions: What's her name?

Student: Erika

Make craft stick puppets with the small cards. Use them to ask questions:
Is she a girl?
Students: Yes, she is.

This one can be to greet the students and have them answer.

Make a stick puppet by cutting the person on the flashcard or small card and adding a straw. Elicit and ask questions to your students.

Greetings Unit Worksheets

More language to practice with this set of worksheets for guided writing practice. It is for asking and answering questions. It has trace and write the new words.

 How are you? I am fine, thanks. Students can work in pairs and perform the dialogue.

Write the vowels worksheet. Students will do a little spelling here by filling in the blanks with the vowels.

This is a worksheet to give information about oneself. Present student the language for asking people's name. Students should also be able to give their name.

The selfie worksheet. Students can draw themselves in the phone screen template or cut a famous person from a magazine. Then, complete the sentences. Have them produce the language: I’m+name. /My name’s__

Activity idea 1: Put all the selfie worksheets in a bag or box. Pull one out and show it to the class. Ask: Who is it?

Students: It's Rosa Amelia!

Have the class greet with: Hi, How are you?

Conitnue by sleecting another worksheet.

Activity idea 2: Gather all the worksheets, glue and make a poster to use as classroom decoration.

If your students are more into writing texts on their own, these worksheets are great for them. They will write information about themselves. Students can take turns showing their work to small groups or to the class.

 Social interaction can be done as students can walk around with their worksheet asking the question: What’s your name? and writing down the answer.

Questionnaires are interactive and encourage active participation. Students will actively engage in collecting data and practice all language skills

Practice his and her with this worksheet.

A pocket chart is a fun collaborative activity. Keep the pocket chart accessible. Hang it on the wall or a special place where all the students can see it as a visual reference.

Students can make their name card for their desks or print the ones available in this resource. When all the name cards are on the desks, have a group of students stand up and walk around the classroom greeting the students by their name that are sitting down.

Another activity would be: Point to a name card and drill the questions: What is his/her name?
Class: His name is David.

A wrap up activity to make this greetings flap book. This kind of book will focus on cross-cultural learning into how we greet in another language.

 Print both pages for each student. Have them staple on the side and cut along the horizontal lines from the first page to make the flaps.

Students will answer to all to all the phrases or questions on the front flap.

Have your students play with another student reading and answering what is written on the other side of the flap. They can take home the flap book to ask questions to their family members.

There's a video to see the complete activity.

Are you teaching younger students? Find more resources here:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/08/greetings-theme-for-kindergarten.html

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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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Greetings and Introductions

This is an old resource but many teachers still download it for free.

 Link to the FREE Greeting Unit resource: 
https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/greetings-resources-for-kinder-and-elementary-esl?variant=36125058105508

Watch the video:

Hello !

                  Make some people puppets. It can be paper bag puppets or finger puppets. Send me an Email requesting the templates for these for free.(ei98srl@gmail.com)
Hold them up and have them greet each other, modeling  the expressions: Hi and Hello.

       Have students come to the front of the class and greet them.

       Teacher: Hello, Gabriel. (shake student´s hand.)  Encourage the student to answer.

        Student: Hello, teacher.

Continue greeting students individually. Have other students greet each other.

Write the Word Hello on the board. Read the word aloud as you point to it.  Ask students to read it aloud individually and then chorally. Continue with more greeting expressions.

Here´s my Hello Hand worksheet. After tracing the words, cut the hands and make Greetings puppets.

   Greeting Chain: say Hello to a student. Then have that student say hello to the student sitting behind. Continue, in a chain, until all the students have greeted  and have been greeted.

What´s your name ?

Teach the name structure Using tpr. TPR is a language teaching technique which means Total Physical Response. It coordinates language and movements by giving instructions and the students performing them. It helps with a higher retention of the vocabulary or structures taught and develops language fluency.

Model using gestures as you to convey meaning:

Shrug your shoulders for WHAT ?

Point to the student  for YOUR

Trace a circle on your body  for  NAME or point to the name tag if you made them.

Make a name badge  for you and for your students. Point to your name badge and say your name.

 Point to a student and have him/her stand up and say My 

name´s ______ pointing to his/her name badge.

Game: Ask students as a class: What´s your name? and have them all shout out their names holding up their name tags.

Use the Greeting puppets.

Puppet: Hello ! What´s your name ?

Puppet: Hi! My name´s Ann. What´s your name ?

 Puppet: My name´s Bill.

Two other students can come to the front and role play using their own names. Have the students greet each other by shaking hands, model for them if necessary.

Explain that the longer  version  is My name is and the shorter one is My name´s. Write it on the board. And repeat the dialogue using the longer version.

                                Introduce the people at school: boy, girl, teacher.

Game 2: write the word.

Hi, Hello, boy, girl, What, ´s, is, your , name, my.

Make as many copies as you need for your class. Make groups and hand the letters. Say a word and have the students find the letters and make the word by standing up with the letters in order. Give a point to the first group to do so. I glued each letter onto a craft stick for easy handling.

Students can make a big version of all the words on a big construction paper or a smaller version on their notebooks. Here are the letters in a black and white version. Use the opportunity to review the alphabet by assigning a color to each letter.
Teacher: letter a is blue.
 Students color all the letter a in blue. Continue with more directions.

Gather pictures of famous people or Tv characters that children can relate to. Put any of these pictures on the board and a speech bubble next to it. Write My name´s ______ in the speech bubble. Have students name the character and write the name in speech bubble. Then have students read the  speech bubble.  Continue with all the pictures that you brought to class.

I glued the pictures onto fun foam and a craft stick. For the speech bubble , I printed it onto colored paper, placed clear contact paper and glued onto fun foam and craft stick as well. The, I wrote with a white board marker and erased it with baby wipes.

Use the pictures to introduce His/ Her name is _____. 
What´s his/her name ?

 I created a Name Graph Worksheet as seen on PINnterest.   You can use the larger worksheet as a group letter counting in a name. The smaller sheets are for individual letters in a name counting.

Another worksheet that can be used as a frame for younger learners.

What if children draw you and write your name.

Teacher: What is my name ?

Students: Your name is ______.

There is another blog post with more for the greeeting and Introductions. https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/06/greetings-and-farewwells-resource-this.html