Seasons and Months

LINK to the resource-Seasons and Months Activities for Elementary ESL Students-: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981

Teaching seasons and months helps elementary ESL students understand time, weather, and daily life. Using visual materials and interactive activities allows students to learn vocabulary while practicing speaking and classification skills.

 Introduce the Seasons Vocabulary with Flashcards.  I made full size and smaller flashcards depending on your class size.

Practice Seasons with Questions

Teacher: Which Season is between Spring and Fall ?

Students: Summer!

I know that many teachers are in dual language settings and I am a Spanish Native Language Speaker. I made a set of Seasons Flashcards in Spanish.

Review the Months of the Year using the cards.

Sort Months by Season

Have the students sort with you on the board the months for each Season.

Teacher: What month is this ?

Student: Winter! It’s Winter.

Teacher: Which months are there in the Winter ?

Student: December, January, February.

Teacher: When is Spring ?

Student: March, April, May.

Teacher: What season is it in July ?

Student: Summer!

Hand in the questionnaire to the students. They walk around asking questions to their classmates.

Use Board Activities for Interaction

Then graph the results on the board.

               

Review the preposition used for Seasons.

A worksheet! 

Well, actually three. Hand in the first two worksheets to the students. Dictate how to color each letter of the Seasons Words.

Teacher: Color letter “e ”green. Which seasons has an “e ”?

Students: Summer! Winter!

Continue with all the other letters, it is an alphabet review and students will notice the spelling of the words.

Dictate how to color all the months of the year to practice listening.

Teacher: Color December pink.

When students finish coloring, they cut and paste the months in each Season box.

Students go their notebooks and pair each Season box to a picture.

And to finish the sorting, a worksheet to answer.

Seasons ESL worksheets teaching tips activities elementary students, is right here:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/03/seasons-and-months.html

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When is your birthday? How old are you-part 3

Here is the link to How to Teach ‘When Is Your Birthday?’ and ‘How Old Are You?’ — ESL Activities for Elementary Learners. Click here:

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Learning to ask and answer questions like “When is your birthday?” and “How old are you?” gives young ESL/EFL students a practical, personal way to use English — it’s meaningful, communicative, and instantly relevant.

Vocabulary to Teach First

     Before asking questions, make sure students know: Month names, Dates (1–31).  Review the months of the year using the cards. Review with your students: How many days in each month ?

 Flashcard Q&A

Show flashcards with months/dates and model. I see that some book’s scope and sequence have the structure using only the birthday month. Have a student come to the front and pick the card of the month of their birthday.

Teacher: When’s your birthday?

Student: June.

Teacher: It’s in June. (Stress the word IN and write it on the board. Grab the month card of June and place it next to the word in)

Graph the birthday months of your class. 

Place the months of the year around your classroom. Have the students look for the Month of their Birthday and stand there.

Teacher: This is January. How many students have their birthday in January?

Students: one!

Continue with all the months.

Depending on the level of your students and the scope and sequence of your book, continue introducing the birthday date. But first, review all the ordinal numbers using the cards.

Worksheets & Written Practice

I prepared a worksheet for the students to notice the difference in writing the ordinal numbers.

Have the students match the ordinal number cards and the words cards as a review.

Then, let’s move on to the birthday date. Place the month and date of your birthday on the board and model for the class. Write the word ON.

Teacher: My birthday is on August 29^th.

Have the students find their birthday month cards and say their sentence to the class.

Have the students write their birthdate on a piece of paper.

As you place the month cards around the classroom. At your signal have the students stand up and look for their birth month and stand there.  Hand them their birthday ordinal number.

Calendar. I am adding a perpetual calendar template . I  can customize the headings to adjust to the country you are at, send me an email: ei98srl@gmail.com)

Students can help create the calendar, just glue the proper heading and have the students research the days and complete the template.

Ask questions:

Teacher: When is Sara’s birthday?

Students: It on October 20^th.

 Students write their name in the birthday date box.

More flashcards. I thought that extra practice is required for this structure. I made some children flashcards with birthdates.

Teacher: When is his birthday?

Students: It’s on June 28^th.

Here is the complete set.

Worksheets!

Worksheet 1 Questionnaire. Students walk around the classroom asking the questions and writing the answers.

Then, they cut and glue the worksheet on their notebooks and write sentences about the results of the questionnaire.

Worksheet 2. Dictate how to color each month as a listening exercise.

Teacher: Color June pink!

Have the students trace the date you say.

Teacher: April 11^th!

Students complete their worksheet. Then, have the students cut each box and write a sentence.

Worksheet 3. Make a calendar. Each worksheet has an empty space for the month. Students cut the month of their birthday and glue onto the empty space. They also write the days of the month and their name on their birthdate. Finally, complete the sentences. You can do a show and tell to the class.

Worksheet 4. The same as the other worksheet, dictate the color of each month or even better, have an individual student dictate the color of each month. Then, students write sentences using his or her birthday.

Worksheet 5. There are Birthdays in the family!Students cut out and glue all the family members and write their corresponding birthdays on their notebooks.

I made an extra set of Family Birthday flashcards to review.

Worksheet 6. Ordinal Numbers Bingo. Students write any of the 31 ordinal numbers on the 9 squares. Use the Ordinal numbers cards to call BINGO!

Worksheet 7. More Family review. Students draw or cut out pictures of their family members and complete the worksheet.

                                                    

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Simple past tense with town and prepositions for ESL

Link to the resource:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Simple-past-tense-of-the-Verb-to-be-with-Town-and-Prepostions-5052414

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Help your elementary ELL students understand and use the simple past tense through meaningful contextual practice centered on town vocabulary and everyday actions. This lesson moves beyond lists — it connects grammar with real-world communication.

After reviewing the prepositions as seen on my last blog post let’s get into the simple past tense. Review the places in town with the flashcards.

I made smaller flashcards for speaking purpose. The flashcards are with people at a town building.

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Teacher: Where was she?

Students: She was at the library.

Simple past tense with days of the week. Write questions and answers on the board using the long cards and the flashcards.

Teacher: Where were you on Monday?

Students: I was at the supermarket!

Simple past tense with past time expressions such as last night, last month.

     Simple past tense with  the most common yesterday.

      Simple past tense with the parts of the day.

            

              Simple past tense with the specific days or dates.

                        

                           Simple past tense with the seasons.

                  Simple past tense with the months of the year.

Nothing better than fun practice. I found a similar idea on the www.mailbox.com, There are several cards for writing sentences. This can be done in a group. Students pick four or five cards and make sentences on their notebook. The students are reminded to use more words in their sentences.

I divided a clear plastic sheet in four using duct tape as I was able to place 4 cards in one sheet.

This snakes and ladders game is for fun and for speaking. Students have to fill in with was or were/wasn’t-weren’t or use for the simple present.

Students make sentences with this printable and write them on their notebook. They can write questions and answers.

Even though some teachers say that worksheets are old fashion, I like them.

And I like to do more with more them than just filling in the blanks. Observe that I cut all the worksheet and paste on the notebook by matching the drawing to the sentences.

Or add the questions and answers for each drawing.

                      Another example.

More worksheets!

What Students Will Learn

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

✔ Identify and say common simple past tense verbs
✔ Form simple past sentences with regular and irregular verbs
✔ Describe past events using familiar town vocabulary
✔ Ask and answer questions like “Where did you go yesterday?”

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