Simple past tense with town and prepositions for ESL

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Help your students understand and practice the simple past tense with meaningful, context-based ESL activities! This lesson uses familiar town vocabulary and real-life actions to make the past tense easy for young learners to grasp and use. 

Why the Simple Past Tense Is Important

The simple past tense is one of the first grammar structures students need for telling stories, describing past experiences, and sharing information about events. But many learners struggle because the form looks different from present tense.

Review the use of prepositions first and then show how to use them in the simple past. I created a set of long cards to place on the board or to ue in groups.

Prepositions ON-used for days of the week. Write the word on and place the days of the week long cards on the board as in a mind map.

Teacher: On Monday!

Students: On Tuesday ! (continue with more)

IN-used for parts of the day.

                IN - used for months of the year.

AT-used for time of the day.

AT-used for specific place

              Teacher: at school!

              Students: at the pharmacy ! (continue with more)

AT-used for general locations or buildings in a town.

Teacher: at the post office!

Students: at the bank ! (continue with more)

On-used for specific dates and days.

IN - used for seasons.

Now, have the students practice the use of the prepostions.

I made two size of pockets to sort the cards. This one is smaller and can be used on the notebook. This activity can be done individually or in small groups.

And I made another set of pocket a little bigger to be used as a group activity. Just make a pocket by gluing each pocket template onto cardboard and print a set of cards and have the students do the sorting .

Or use plastic plates, you can write a preposition with a dry erase maker and students can do the sorting.

Another idea is to create a flap book, either horizontal o vertical.

These materials support fluency and consolidation.

There is more to this resource, check the blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2019/11/simple-past-tense-with-town-and_26.html

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School unit flashcards for ESL students

I updated the school unit flashcards. I thought that adding more words and using nicer clipart would be a bonus for teachers. Many of you have bought it and now you will have both versions. If there are words that you would like me to add, let me know.

More than 250 flashcards for the classroom objects on this resource and just a few tips on how to use them in class. You can use my flashcards or the ones that come with your book series.Link: 
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Theme-Flashcards-for-ELL-836917

Fun Ways to Teach School Vocabulary! Use the Visual flashcards to help students learn school supply vocabulary. Plan Interactive games & activities. It is a great back-to-school resource!

Use the flashcards to present the school objects vocabulary.These are  designed to introduce and reinforce essential words in an interactive way. Whether you're teaching in a classroom or online, these colorful flashcards will make learning school vocabulary engaging and effective.

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Watch the video using the flashcards.

Flashcards with visuals that provide clear context. If your students are a little more advanced review there is and there are. Divide the board in two and write the phrases. I used pencil and books.

Teacher: There is a pencil. There are books.

Students can find more flashcards to make more examples.

Flashcards  that are perfect for whole-class activities, small group instruction, centers, and independent practice.

I always find labeling fun. You can do one the board as an example. 

Label the body parts, clothes and school objects.(Labeling)

Teacher: name the body parts.

Students: mouth! Eyes! Leg!

Teacher: name the clothes.

Students: dress! shoe!

Teacher: name the school objects.

Students: lunch bag! backpack!

 Improving their speaking skills in a natural way. Then, assign red for body parts. Ask students to name all the body parts and you circle them. Do the same for clothes and school objects.

Students can do the same using the flashcards. I placed the flashcard into a plastic sheet to go on paperless. Have the students use a blue whiteboard marker for labeling the body parts as they practice pronunciation.

Then, use a black whiteboard marker for labeling the clothes and the school objects.

Flashcards 3. Select a letter of the alphabet and have the students say all the words that start with the letter. As they name the word place the flashcard on the board. Then, have the students do the same on their notebooks with another letter. I chose letter P for this example.

Flashcards 4. Order alphabetically. Write the letters from A to Z on the board and the students find the flashcards to place under each letter.

Flashcards 5. Classroom Monsters. Give a flashcard on a plastic sheet to each student and have them create a monster. I did this one with scissors. I added hair, eyes, nose, mouth, shoes. I guess students are more creative than me, but it will work to show the students the task before they start their own. Students can show their work to the class.

Student: This is my scissors monster. It has black hair. Its eyes are blue and big. It is happy. She is wearing shoes.

Flashcards 6. Sorting the flashcards into categories. I wrote these categories on the board. Students find the flashcards for each category.

Flashcards 7. Name the flashcard. Make a grid on the board using the flashcards. I did this simple one as an example for you.

Teacher: C3!

Students: pencil case!

Flashcards 8. Related words! I placed the pencil case flashcard in the middle of the board. Have the students name all the things that a person can find in a pencil case. As they name the words, place the flashcard or write the word. This is like doing a mind map.

Flashcards 9. Use puzzles when working with the little ones.

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School people, workers and places

This is the school subject resource:     https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Subjects-People-and-Places-for-ESL-4548123

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The most important part of school is the people! The school workers.

I made several flashcards to use for the speaking part of the lesson plan.

Hold up a flashcard and show it to class, say the word and have your students repeat back.

Place a school place flashcard and a school person flashcard. Have the students make sentences stating where they are.

Teacher: Who is he?

Student: He is the Principal.

Teacher: Where is he?

Student: He is in the Principal’s office.

Teacher: Who is in the bathroom?

Student: The janitor is in the bathroom.

Teacher: Who works in the library?

Student: The librarian works in the library. 

Tell students that you are interviewing a flashcard person. Make a model and have students help with more questions. Then, assign each group of students a teacher, worker or students in the building to interview them, even in the native language and having to translate later. Put up all the interviews in a class book for everyone to read.

I made a set of flashcards with no words.

Pick a flashcard to provide an example for a writing activity as in a mind map.

Tell the students that you have selected this flashcard and will create with the class a mind map. Start asking questions and write key words. Students can also add key word or ask questions to class to get more words.

Teacher: Who is she?

Student: She is the science teacher.  (write science teacher)

Teacher: Where does she work?

Student: she works in the science lab. (write science lab)

Then have students do their own writing using the set of flashcards. When they have finished have the students work in pairs and complete each other writing with more words.

Place another flashcard on the board and write the WH questions words on the board.

Have the students write questions and you have to answer. Model the first question and place flashcards as answers.

Teacher: Who are they?

Student: They are students. 

Student: Where are they?

Teacher: They are in the cafeteria.

Student: When are they eating?

Teacher: In the afternoon.

Student: What time are they eating?

Teacher: twelve-thirty.

Student: What are they eating?

Teacher: They are eating lunch.

Have the students sort the flashcards into places,jobs ,subjects and objects.

Place several places in school flashcards on the board and have the students ask questions using Where ? and answer by placing the corresponding person under each flashcard.

Student 1: Where is the janitor?

Student 2: He is in the cafeteria. 

For extra vocabulary practice have the students describe in detail the flashcards using There is and There are.

This is it for school people. But I am still working on more school unit resources. Follow me!

School Subjects and the nouns

Link to all the complete resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/School-Subjects-for-ESL-4548123

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More flashcards are here to relate the school subjects from last blog post to the nouns.Place the subject flashcard on the board and then have the students find the noun flashcards related to that subject. This is the MATH example as in a mind map.There are also classroom objects flashcards that go with the subjects.

Here is the History subject presentation.

Here is the P.E. subject presentation.

Here is the Religion subject presentation.

Here is the Physics subject presentation.

Here is the Music subject presentation.

Here is the Chemistry subject presentation.

Here is the Geograhy subject presentation.

Here is the Biology subject presentation.

Here is the Art subject presentation.

Place a school subject flashcard on the board and start adding all the nouns that relate to that specific subject. Do the same with all the subjects.

Play Guess the subject. Place several noun flashcards on the board. Have the students guess to which subject the flashcards correspond.

Play Bingo with all the flashcards. Place them on the board. Have the students select only six of them and write them down on their notebook. Start calling the words and remove them and place them on the wall or door to show students which one you have called so they can cross the word out. The winner is the first to cross out all the words.

I made small cards Subject/Noun to match.

Link to the blog post for the school subjects included in this resource: 

 https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2019/05/school-subjects-for-elementary-esl.html

There will  be more resources for  the school subjects unit .

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