Body Unit Flashcards for Elementary ESL

 This resource is included in the Body Unit for Elementary ESL. It can be used by Elementary Education teachers and Early Childhood as well.Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Body-Theme-for-Elementary-ELL-1836555

Introduce the basic body vocabulary to enable your students to help them express themselves when talking about their own body and others. There are many flashcards to use int your lesson plan for english language learners.

Print the body flashcards. These are an effective and engaging teaching tool to introduce and reinforce the new vocabulary. They feature clear and colorful images to illustrate each body part to be easily recognizable for your esl elementary students.

Place your flashcards on the board and have the students identify and recognize the parts of the body.

 Add an interactive element into your flashcards lesson plan for your students to talk about the parts of the body. Ask your students to touch or point a specific body part on any monster flashcards I made this pointer by adding a wiggly eye to a craft stick. Students will say the word as they point to each one:hand!

Word Labeling. Place a boy or girl flashcard on the board. Write the name of each body part with your students. Say sentences to describe the girl.

Teacher: She has a head!
Students: She has two legs!
Students will follow simple instructions.
Teacher: Touch your head! (showing the flashcard)

Print the Monsters flashcards and place into clear plastic sheets and have the students label all the parts of the body.

Count all the body parts using the flashcards. Students will use the numbers to describe the body.

Teacher: What are these?
Teacher: How many fingers? Count.
Students: ten!
Students: Hands!

Guide the students to count more body parts such as toes and eyes. Then, have the students say how many body parts they have: I have two eyes.

Divide the board and write the numbers 1 and 2. Have the students sort the flashcards into count many body parts we have.

Students: one nose. Two shoulders, two legs and two knees!

I just wanted to include these monster flashcards with different amount of body parts.
Ask: How many eyes?
Have the students sort the flashcards into How many body parts.

Have the students count the parts of the body on each monster. Students will describe the physical chracteristics of the monsters using the verb has: The monster has four eyes.

Students can describe their body parts as you will model on the board using the flashcards of the boy and girl. Emphasize the demonstrative pronouns this and these to the singular and plural part of the body. Provide simple sentences examples.
Teacher: This is my head.
These are my hands.

There are several flashcards that provides a visual representation of the most common adjectives to describe people and their physical appearance.

Teacher: This is Mary. She has long blond hair. She is tall and thin.
Does she have long or short legs?
Students: long legs.

Model how to use the descriptive adjectives young and old in sentences to describe people using the flashcards.
Teacher: He is old. He is young.
Students: He is tall and thin. He is short and fat.
Now, show the flashcards and have the students mime themselves with the adjectives.
Teacher: You are tall! (students will stand on their toes) Continue with the rest of adjectives.

Teaching the adjectives left and right introduce directional vocabulary. Sort the flashcards on the board and have the students express the spatial concepts: This is the left ear! This is the right leg.

Use the body parts as the subject of the imperatives provides a clear and relatable context to introduce flashcards.

Have your students do the action as you say and show the action: Touch your head!

Imperatives with hand and finger. Pair this body part to encourage your students to combine the physical action with the commands. Have the students mime the action with their hands: play tennis!

Teacher: Draw with your hand!

Students will mime the action and repeat the verb.

What body part do you use for performing a verb? Sort the flashcards on the board. Students will follow the instructions using that part of the body.

Add variety to the activities planned with the flashcards. This kind of games add excitement to learning the new language. This is a listening activity.

Describe a Monster: My monster isn’t short. She has one eye, two arms, five legs and five feet.
Students: C3!!!

Students will take turns describing a monster for the class to guess.

Next blog post is about using the small cards activities:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/05/body-unit-small-cards-for-elementary-esl.html

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Christmas Activities for ESL

Krasner (1999) recognized the necessity for language learners to develop not only linguistic competence but also an awareness of the culturally-appropriate features of the language

Link to the files at my TeachersPayTeachers store:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-2235598

 

I made a Coloring and a Writing book. Students read the incomplete sentence and looking at the picture write the missing word. Students can color the picture as you dictate.

Teacher: Look at the elf! His hat is yellow and green.

A foldable accordion book. Students trace each word to create the book. You can choose the vocabulary. Then trace the Elf hat onto red or green cardboard to assemble the book. 

Half card game. This a fun game that many students love. Cut all the cards in half. Have the students match each half to make a complete card on their desks as a group challenge.

As a speaking activity, hand in a half card to each student. They all stand up at your signal and walk around the classroom finding their other half and stand together. Shout stop! At any given moment. The winners are the students that got together correctly.

Labeling clothes and body (labeling). Have the students label the Christmas Characters cards. They come in color and black/white version.

More vocabulary practice with the picture and word matching cards.

A final review of Prepositions or Positional words.A set of small flashcards to review each preposition.

Teacher: Look at the reindeer! The reindeer is between the boy and the girl.Or the reindeer is between the elves.

A  Prepositions or Positional words game.The sentence association game which is fun.

There is a set of cutouts to glue onto a file folder.

Students can sort the cards.

A  Prepositions or Positional words book.Print and assemble the book or use the file on the tablets.

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Halloween Activities for the ESL student

Another Halloween again! I prepared this resource with many things. Hope you like it. 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Activities-for-ESL-4937335

Let’s start with Halloween Flashcards!

 Picture Dictionary. Hand in the 3 pages for making the picture dictionary. It is a good idea to do this in groups. This is a cut and paste activity.

I love tracing cards. It is a spelling activity that can be done using the clear plastic sheet. Just as some native language students learn to trace words in Preschool some ESL learners benefits from tracing.

I made another set of tracing cards that can work as coloring cards. Practice coloring the body parts and/or the clothes.

I made a smaller version of the tracing cards to create an accordion book.

First, I glued one card onto another.

Then, I folded all the cards into an accordion.

I traced the cover onto cardboard to make the other part of the book. I glued the first page onto the cover and the last one onto the cardboard.

Just a worksheet to place all the words in ABC order.

Spelling Bingo is always a fun game to play. Use the small cards or the Big Flashcards to call the Bingo words. Students just write a playing word in each part of the spinner. They have to cross out the word that is being called if they have it.

If Spelling Bingo is not enough. Try Spelling Scrabble. I added the Scrabble letters. I printed them onto Halloween colored paper, I chose orange and purple. I did my example using the puppets, you can use any of the small cards in the resource.

I also made worksheets with all the Halloween Characters without the face parts and for the students to color the clothes items.

Teacher: This is Dracula. He has green eyes, a small nose and funny mouth. 
Students draw as indicated.

You can also dictate how he is dressed or have them color the clothes and then describe his clothes.

Students: Dracula is wearing a black and red cape, gray pants and brown shoes.

I made all the characters into puppets using toilet paper rolls. Here are just a few and made a haunted house, it comes in two pages which you will have to glue to make a big one. I printed mine onto orange cardboard and colored the door, the windows and roof to review parts of the house.

Teacher: What color is the door?

Students: It’s brown!

Use the puppets to review the words.

Teacher: Who is he?

Students: He is the Mummy!

Teacher: Who is she?

Students: She is the Witch!

I also used the puppets to do prepositions practice.

Teacher: Where is the Devil?

Students: She is in front of the Haunted House!

 Teacher: Where is Frankenstein?

Students: He is behind the Haunted House!

Teacher: Where is the Witch?

Students: She is in the Haunted House!

Or have the students write about where the characters are.

A game board for those minutes of free play!

I taped an opened clip behind each game piece to make it stand as a marker.

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