“Boost Language Skills with Board Games: Fun & Effective ESL Activities”

Here is the link to the complete resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Board-games-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11333780

Find a variety of themed board games perfect for practicing vocabulary, sentence structures, speaking, and listening skills—all while playing!

Board games give students a chance to hear, use, and repeat key vocabulary and sentence structures in a natural, purposeful way. Whether they're counting spaces, asking questions, or making choices, students are communicating with a clear purpose.

Most of the games includes:

Color coded Question Cards with the color of the spot landed on, that students must answer a question correctly to take their turn and advance. The question cards provide purposeful language practice.

Color coded Tokens to reward points to students who answer questions correctly. These can be used to keep track of points.

Markers (player pieces) that students use to move along the board path. Just cut and fold and glue on the upper part of each one.

Parents can participate in their child's learning by playing the game and supporting language development. Send the PLAYGROUND BOARD GAME home.

Achieving goals within the FRUIT AND VEGETABLE board game, such as reaching the finish line or earning points, reinforces students' learning progress.

BIRTHDAY UNIT board game can be adapted to suit different learning levels or individual student needs, allowing for differentiation in instruction.

Teachers can observe students during games to assess vocabulary, PRESENT CONTINUOUS grammar, and communication skills.

Students interact with their peers during gameplay, promoting social interaction and collaboration during the FURNITURE BOARD GAME.

This board game for the Grammar: CAN, involves strategic thinking and problem-solving. Students need to plan their moves, make decisions, and adapt their strategies during the game, fostering critical thinking skills.

Board games create situations where students use CLOTHES UNIT language in context.

Players practice descriptive language skills as they describe the ZOO animals they encounter on the game board.

The objective of the game is to navigate through the various spaces on the game board, learning and practicing vocabulary related to different PARTS OF THE BODY.

All the board games are part of all the units Elementary English Language learners teaching Units-Discover BUNDLE at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elementary-English-Language-learners-teaching-Units-Discover-BUNDLE-12982247

There are more board games included in the resource, go to the blog post and see which ones you would like to have:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/03/board-games-for-elementary-english.html

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There are practical activities, tips, and resources designed to make learning fun and effective for little ones!

“Where’s the Mouse? Teaching Prepositions with a Clock

 This resource is part of the House Furniture for Elementary ESL, at my store:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/House-Furniture-unit-for-Elementary-ESL-3420723

Teaching prepositions is essential for helping English language learners (ELLs) understand how objects relate to one another in space. By interacting with the mouse and the clock in different positions, students will build visual comprehension of common prepositions.

Flashcards and Small cards-Partner Practice. One student picks a flashcard and describes it without showing. The other has to find the small card to match it.

Take a look!

Small Card Puzzle Match: Picture + Word. Cut the cards into two pieces—one with the image and one with the sentence or preposition. Students match and read them aloud.

Worksheets support multiple learning styles – visual (coloring/drawing), kinesthetic (cut and paste), and auditory (when paired with read-alouds).

Draw the Mouse Worksheet. Students read the instruction: “There is a pink mouse on the clock.” This helps reinforce understanding through art and movement.

Roll & Color Worksheet. Use the preposition dice provided in the resource. Students roll, find a matching image on the worksheet, and color it.

Read and Color the Scene Worksheet. Students read simple sentences like “The brown mouse is under the clock.” They find the matching picture and color it.

Students write the number to match images of the mouse and clock with written preposition sentences. This builds reading comprehension and visual matching.

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Print two sets of mini cards. Students play memory by flipping two cards at a time, trying to find matching positions. When they find a match, they say the sentence: “The mouse is behind the clock.”

Use these same cards and have students find a card and physically move the mouse to match the preposition.” The mouse is on the clock!”

Print the mats labeled with prepositions.  Students sort the small cards by placing them under the correct label. You can turn it into a center activity or partner game!

Give students a set of puzzle word cards. They match the picture card and build the sentence to describe it.

Board Game. When students land on a space, they say the sentence to move forward.

Flap Book-They write the sentence under each space: “The mouse is on the clock.”  There is a set of illustrations to color, cut and paste for extra fun!

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St. Patrick’s Day and the House Unit

 This resource for any ESL Elementary School teacher is included here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

This resource combines the vocabulary from the house unit with cultural elements of the St. Patrick’s Day holiday, making learning more engaging.

 Help your students reinforce house-related words in the context of a holiday theme, exposing students to traditions while learning English.

Use the flashcards with beginners for word recognition and more advanced learners will start sentence building. Place a house flashcard on the board and have the students match the roof, door, window.

Teacher: This is the roof.

Student: This is the door.

Encourage speaking through interactive activities. Have the students describe a house on the flashcard. Write the sentences provided by them.

Place the flashcards in a grid form. Give specific details about a cards and students have to guess the location.

Teacher: It’s a green house. It has an orange roof, a shamrock window, a purple and yellow horseshoe door.

Student: 2c

Place different St. Patrick’s Day house flashcards on a board. Have students position the boy, girl, or leprechaun next to, in front of, behind, or on the house. They must describe the scene using prepositions (e.g., "The leprechaun is in front of the shamrock house.").

Students draw two small cards (a house and a character). I placed the cards onto a toilet paper roll for easy handling. They will create a short text using those elements.

Students cut out the house and character images and glue them into their notebooks and create a scene, then write a short description.

Develop Reading Comprehension with this worksheet where students practice following instructions by reading and completing short sentences and coloring specific details.

A few more worksheets to choose the ones for your specific students.

There is a similar resource for younger students. Check it out:    https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-house-unit-resource.html 

Check what else is included in this resource:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2023/10/rooms-of-house-small-cards-for.html

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Halloween and the Haunted House Prepositions

 This resource is included in the House Unit for Elementary-Starters at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

Print and use this spooky theme of a haunted house and ghost to capture your students' attention. The resource provides a clear visual to grasp prepositions (in, on, under, behind, in front of and "next to") through fun and interactive activities. The resource caters to different learning styles (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic).

Each flashcard portraits a specific preposition with a ghost in relation to a haunted house or objects (e.g., "The ghost is on the Haunted House").

The activity promotes spatial understanding by helping students visualize and use prepositions in meaningful contexts, which is critical for language development. Use the colored or b/w version of the ghost and house cutout for the students to recreate each preposition: The ghost is in front of the house.

Use the flashcards as a writing activity.

Use the ghost cutout and play Ghost Hunt (Hide and Seek with Prepositions). Hide the ghost cutout around the classroom (e.g., under desks, on the bookshelf, next to the door). Have students search for the ghost and describe its location using prepositions ("The ghost is under the chair").

 

The small cards can be used in different interactive activities. One of them is the Memory Game where students match the cards, challenging students to find pairs that match the correct preposition to the image.

Add the worksheet to the lesson plan. Find Labeling Prepositions: Students will have to choose the correct preposition (e.g., in, on, under, next to, behind, in front of), Fill-in-the-Blanks with Visual Clues, write different questions to each picture.

By moving the ghost around the haunted house and using prepositions to describe its location, students actively practice their language skills. Fun to glue and create a Haunted house poster with all the ghosts in their location.

Print the Preposition Dice to play several games. Students roll the dice and then place or move a ghost cutout to play in the location of the Haunted house cutout. This game provides hands-on interaction with prepositions.

Haunted House Board Game. Print the board game with a haunted house theme. Students move their Halloween character game pieces around a board, landing on locations in the haunted house. Each space has a sentence to say or a space to move: The ghost is on the Haunted House.

Matching Card Game. Prepare the mat with pictures of a haunted house and ghost in different locations. Students take turns drawing cards with the preposition words and place where it belongs. There is also a sentence set to play a puzzle game.

Hope you will love this Game. I used to make different versions for my students in my teaching days. Print a card per team. There are 4. Have the cards and house ready for each team.

When you say, "Go!" the students must read the sentences and place the cards in the corresponding place to complete the task. The first group who puts the proper things in the correct location gets a point for their team.

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