Rooms of the house small cards for Elementary EFL

                         This resource is included in the House Unit available here: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

The small cards are easy to use anywhere in class, on the table, on the floor, outside on the playground. Plan small group activities or with a partner to encourage conversation and collaborative learning. The cards are flexible to suit the individual learning goals that you have planned.

Print your set of small cards and do a little spelling as your students will use them as a reference to write them down on any surface that you have available. I used these writing erasable strips and whiteboard markers. Suitable to practice the vocabulary of the parts of the house.

My example is just writing words, but students can write complete sentences.

Small cards can be used for repetition and review.

Using a white crayon, a group of students will write the rooms of the house words on a white cardboard in random order.  They will give that cardboard to another group, who will use finder paints to color over the words to discover the words. Then, they will match the small cards to each word.

These cards will aid in comprehension and memory retention. Make a house using the small cards and cardboard to use in class.

Students will actively engage with the material as you ask questions with Where?

Have the students place the family members where you say: Mother is in the bedroom!
Or ask questions: Where is mother?
Students: She is in the kitchen!
Is brother in the garden or the bathroom?
Students: in the garden!

It can also be a writing activity. Tailor the learning experience to your student’s needs.

Have your students place all the family members where they want and then they should write a text.

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Rooms of the house for Elementary English Teachers

 This resource is included in the House Unit available here: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

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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Day 13 and 14 of the 31 days of Halloween

 LINK to the Halloween  resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/31-days-of-Halloween-for-Kindergarten-and-Elementary-ESL-6087756

Day 13.  Haunted Houses to review the prepositions !! 

I added opened clips behind each Halloween charácter and paper towel tubes behind the house to make everything stand.

Place the Halloween People in different places in the house and ask questions.
Teacher: Who is this?
Students: She is the witch.
Teacher: Where is the Mummy?
Students: The Mummy is on the Haunted House.

Teacher: Who are in front of the house?

Students:The Vampire and the Witch.

Teacher: How many people are in front of the house?
Students:five!

 There is a black and White versión for the studenst to color and make their own Haunted House and a lined paper for them to write sentences according to their level.

Day 14.  stuffed Halloween Characters !!

I had done this activity years ago with the school unit and thought that the Halloween faces would look cute. It is fun and besides helps out with the motor skills for the Little ones. Review the parts of the face and the emotions. Use the stuffed characters to play games as you would play with beanbags. 

As a listening activity dictate the parts of the face of each Hallowen Character to color the template.  You can assign a carácter to each student, they don’t have to do them all, they can do their favorite one. 

Teacher: Look at the witch ¡ Her hair is Brown. Her nose is orange and her mouth is red. Is she happu, sad or angry?
Students: She is angry!!

Have the students trace the charácter onto any recycled cardboard.

                                        Cut!

                               And check the steps.

Another example on how to assemble the charácter.

Use torn paper to assemble the character as well.

Finished product!

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Family in the House for ESL learners

LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Family-Flashcards-worksheets-and-more-for-Elementary-ESL-students-4841832 

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Watch the video of the complete resource:

Review the rooms in the house with the flashcards.

Use the House and the family flashcards to make a grid that can look like a house on the board.

Teacher: Who is she?

Student: She’s Mother.

Teacher: Where is she?

Student: She’s in the bathroom.

Teacher: Is uncle Tom in the bedroom?

Student: Yes, he is.

Teacher: Where is Brother?

Student: He’s in the dining room.

Teacher: Who is in the living room?

Student: The cousin is.

Say a place and the students say the family member and then do the opposite.

Teacher: kitchen!

Student: Grandma!

Model and have students make plural sentences.

Teacher: The cousins are in the bathroom.

Student: The brothers are in the bedroom.

Teacher: Who are in the dining room?

Student: The aunts!

Teacher: Where are the babies?

Student: They are in the living room.

I made this craft house to use for speaking purpose using prepositions.

It comes in two parts to make a bigger house to display to the class.

Use it to make sentences with prepositions. Assemble one or several houses for the class.

Teacher: Put the brother in front of the house. Put the uncle next to the house. Put the mother next to the house.

I opened the windows and doors to review more prepositions.

Teacher: Where is the cousin?

Student: He is behind the window.

Teacher: Where is the cousin?

Student: She is in the house.

Students can make sentences: Brother is in front of the house. Mother is next to the house. Grandpa is between Mother and Grandma.

              Print the Rooms in a house to use with the family members.

I made a house out of file folder. It is easier to carry around and play.  

Label the rooms in the house. (LABELING)

The family members are in the house. Dictate where the members are.

Teacher: Aunt is in the bedroom. The cousin is in the bathroom. Grandma is in the living room. Father is in the dining room. The baby is in the kitchen.

Ask questions:

Teacher: Where is the cousin?

Student: She’s in the bathroom.

Teacher: Who is in the living room?

Student: Grandma is.

I made small word cards to make sentences.

The video!

                                            A worksheet for many activities.

The house can be colored by room.

Teacher: Color the bathroom blue. Or it can be colored by objects in the house. Dictate where to place the family members in the house. Do this as a listening activity.

The house can be colored by objects in the house.

It can be done as a writing activity on the notebook.

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