Weather and Clothes Themes for the ESL Learner

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Flashcards 1. Place the people Flashcards on the board.

Have the children guess the weather. I wrote the numbers from 11 to 20 to practice them.

Teacher: What is the weather like in Number 15?

Students: It´s cold and snowy.

Teacher: Is it snowy in number 18?

Students: No, it isn´t. It´s sunny and hot.

Flashcards 2. Place the weather flashcards on the board (rainy, sunny, windy, snowy).

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Place the frog´s clothes on a desk.

Call on individual students to come and pick a piece of clothing, show it to the class, say the word and place it where it belongs according to the weather.

Student: raincoat! Rainy!

Flashcards 3. Weather and adjectives. Divide the board in two and write the words hot and cold. Place the sun flashcard on the hot side and a snowflake flashcards on the cold side. Have the students sort the frog´s clothes.

Then, dress up your frog for the hot or the cold weather.

Flashcards 4. Weather and seasons.

Show the students several flashcards and ask questions.

Teacher: Which season is it ?

Students: It´s winter.

Teacher: Yes! But, why? What is he wearing?

Students: He is wearing a hat a coat, pants, and boots.

Give the students the flashcards and have them sort the people according to the season.

Teacher: How is the weather in the Spring?

Students: It´s rainy.

Have the students sort the flashcards according to the weather.

Teacher: What´s the weather like ?

Students: It´s cold.

Teacher: What is the boy wearing?

Students: He is wearing a hat, a jacket, mittens,pants and boots.

Have the students say what they wear for each weather.

Students: I wear a raincoat and boots on a rainy day.

Activity 1. After this practice, hand in the frog template to each student.

Have them color their frog by using only the 11 colors that we use in the class (and for the Bingo later) but only in one color each piece and dress the frog according to a specific weather.

Place the Weather flashcards (from the previous blog post) around the room. Students listen to the weather that you mention and walk with their frog and stand next to the flashcard.

Teacher: Winter frogs come here!

Then count together how many students are at each flashcard and have them say which weather has the most students.

Activity 2. Play frog Bingo! Since all the students have their frogs ready. Play Bingo.   Print and cut all the Bingo cards and place them in a bag or box and start calling out all the clothes:

Teacher: a red shirt!

Activity 3. Fashion Catalog. Since it is a favorite in my store I added it including more summer and winter clothes. Just print a page per student and have them look for clothes in magazines to cut and paste as in a catalog. Divide the whole class into 4 groups so one group will do the Winter Catalog, another the Summer one and then assign Fall and Spring. I´d love to see pictures of this if you do it.

Activity 4. Write the clothes words. Have the students write the clothes that are worn in each weather. You can hang them up in class.

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House Theme Resources for Elementary ELL

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Board games are a fun time in class. The classic board game can be played to activate speaking in a less stressful setting, they can participate without worrying if they said it wrong. Children get to compete to win, but they have to know the vocabulary. So, starting playing the house unit board game featuring the furniture in the house.

You can have the students play by just counting the spaces that are in the die and read the phrases: Go back, Go ahead, Miss 1 turn and do the actions. But you can place the small cards along and have each player move the spaces in the die if the word in the card is read correctly or if the picture cards are identified .

 I used funny house items as markers, so each player can be a house object, such as a chair or a sofa. I put them in a binder clip so each marker can stand on board game without falling.

Graphing.  I made three different graphs for vocabulary building.

 The first one, Who lives in your house ?

Give children a house and have them write the family members who live in their house. Or Have them cut from the templates their family members. They should also write their names. Then they have to make a total count.

Graph the results on the board. Make a chart in advance with the student´s names and the numbers on the other.

The second one is related to: How many pets live in your house?

 And the third graph is, How many rooms are in your house? This kind of graph will help identify the rooms in a house.

I like to have some cards for student interaction. Here are the ones that I made for this House Unit. I chose the most frequent words in the Book Series that most of you use. I also included some British words for the same objects, since I noticed that in some countries teachers use the British methods. I can make some more cards if you ask.

Picture and word cards are just matching, well yes, but do more things with them.use them for interactive lessons.

The cards give learners more opportunities to hear and speak English.  The games cane be played alone or in small groups. I saw this idea on Pinterest of using plastic plates. You can write on it with dry erase markers and then wipe it off with baby wipes. You can write the word on each plate or have a student write the word and the other has to find the picture.

If it is possible, have your own bulletin board for a word wall. Place the letters from A to Z and have the students put all the pictures under each letter.

Or  place only the words. I made letters in black and white just in case you want to print them onto colored cardboard and save some ink.

It can also be picture and word cards for the home hands-on learning game.

 If not, have them make their own Pictionary as fun engaging activity.

The flashcards! I made more than 270 House Objects Flash Cards to use as a visual aid.

                            Ideas for using the flashcards.

Use 3. Place students in groups of 2. Hand them 4 flashcards. Tell them to write several sentences using all the words in the flashcards. Model your own example.

Use 4. Describe the flashcard. Model  one and hand each student a flashcard. Have them write as many sentences as they can to describe a picture. Start with: This is my bathroom. 

Use 5. Play give me by Spelling. Students play in groups of 4. Hand in more than 8 flashcards, try that they start with the same letter. One student is the speller. The others have to find the flashcard. Model on the board.

Teacher: S-H-E-L-F

The students shout SHELF!

Use 6. Cut the word part from several flashcards. Then cut the word in several pieces. Put them in a bag and have students put the word back on each flashcard as in puzzles.

Use 7. Label the flashcards. If you place each flashcard in a plastic sheet they can label with a dry erase marker and then erase it for other students to use.

Use 8. I made additional small word cards. They can be sorted in each room of the house

I also included a worksheet to do the same as with the flashcards. Students will say where the pieces of furniture are: The bathtub is in the bathroom.

And a complete house.

Furniture catalog. Introduce the catalog to the students by asking where does their family buy furniture, if there is a furniture store that they have been to. Tell them that they are going to make a group furniture catalog. I added several ways to do it.

 One, is that I provided all the pieces. Tell the students to glue the furniture pieces in the spot of the appropriate heading. The catalog´s cover is in blank for the students to write the name of their store.

Students can cut pictures from old magazines that they bring in to school and create their own version. When the catalogs are done. Have them share their work. They can also role play with other groups that come to buy from their catalogs and take orders.

Scrabble Tiles. I suggest you print a template for each student or several templates for a group. Have them come up with a crossword.  This game is good for Spelling practice. It also works for the students to identify  pieces of furniture.

Spelling Bingo. I usually include this game because I know that students love it and are willing play many times. I made a house template for it. It is harder to teach ELL students to spell than to read. Some teachers think that Spelling is not important while others focus too much on that area.

I have found so many Verb Clipart in old Cds that I included them. Games for social interaction? 

1.      Go get it. Stick several verb Flashcards on the board. Make several teams that have to line up in front of the board at a considerable distance. Say a sentence that describes the flashcard. The first student to get the correct flashcard from the board wins it for the team.

Teacher: The girl is eating ice cream.

Students should be able to state where people are: She is in the kitchen.

Use the flashcards to ask questions: Where is Grandma? 

Students. She's in the living room.

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  The flashcards are used to prompt writing. Have students sit in pairs and hand them several flashcards. Have them come up with a story, but first model a story as a  class on the board. Start with: Mother and Father are in the kitchen.

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