Clothes Resources for the ELementary ELL

Here are resources and activities for the Clothes Theme.
Link to the resources:

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Clothes Flashcards!

How many?  Give each group of student clothes small flashcards in different colors and have them sort all the pieces.

Teacher: How many dresses ?

Students: six. Six dresses.

Then ask them to sort the clothes by color.

Teacher: How many red ?

Students: four.

Teacher: Which color has more clothes ?

Students: green and blue.

Teacher: Which color has less clothes ?

Students: white and black.

Then ask them to make patterns.

Teacher: green shoe, brown shoe, green sock, brown sock.

Teacher: red cap, red dress, pink cap, pink dress.

Alphabet. Review the alphabet by having the students say the starting letter for each clothing item.

Teacher: letter  B!

Students: B is for blouse. B is for boots.

Continue with all the other letters. Students can write all the letters and make a chart as in the example.

Sort by season. Talk to the students that there´s appropriate clothes for each weather.  Have them sort all the cutouts. Then, write each season and all the clothes that are worn on each one.

Sort by family members.  Also have the students tell you the clothes that each family member wears. Also discuss which can be used by the same family members, make a Venn Diagram.

Teacher: Look at the dress.  Whose dress  is it ?

Students: It´s Mommy´s dress.

                                    Sort by gender.

Sort by Singular and Plural. It is and They are.

Teacher: What are these?

Students: They are pants!

Teacher: What color are the pants?

Students: They are blue.

What is he/she wearing ? I created 640 flashcards to use for this theme.

Show a flashcard and start asking questions:

Teacher: What is this ?

Students: A dress.

Teacher: What color is the dress ?

Students: green.

Teacher: She is wearing a green dress.

Continue with the rest of the clothes.

Ask more questions:

Teacher: Is she wearing pants?

Students: No, she isn´t.

Teacher: Is wearing brown sandals?

Students: Yes, she is.

Hand in flashcards to all the students and have them write a text relate to what the person is wearing.

He is wearing a black jacket, a red and blue t-shirt, blue jeans, brown belt and brown shoes.

Hand in another flashcard and have the students write questions that can be answer in a yes or no form.

Is she wearing a blouse ?

Is she wearing a pink dress ?

Are her shoes purple ?

Is she wearing a hat or a scarf on her head ?

Describing clothes using adjectives. Draw a t-shirt on the board. Draw some stripes with colored chalk or markers. Then write stripped. Continue with dots, floral, zebra, leopard, army, plaid and many more. Use the clothes flashcards to show the printed clothes. Ask questions.

Teacher: What pattern does his pants have ?

Students: His pants are camouflage.

Sort the flashcards using adjectives. Here are some examples.

    Hand in two flashcards to each student. Have them stand up as you ask questions.

Teacher: Who has a dress ?  ( all the students that have a flashcard with a dress will stand up.)

Teacher: Who has a pink dress ?  ( all the students that have a flashcard with a pink dress will continue standing up and the others will sit down.)

Display several flashcards on the board. Give them an allotted time to write sentences related to each one.  Ask a student to read their sentences, all the other students that have the exact same one, should tick the sentence. Ask more students to read their sentences. The student with more sentences ticked is the winner.

Use the flashcards to label the clothes. You can place them in a cover sheet and have the students use white board markers, or place them on the board and have the students label them.

I have a fashion catalog for free at my  store:

 https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Clothes-Theme-Fashion-Catalog-589177

But I made a new and better version. It´s just a cut and paste from magazines and students can be able to write a short description for each.

And prepositions are always used related to clothes. I got four furniture clip art and several clothes cutouts.

Teacher: Who´s this ?

Students: It´s Daddy.

Teacher: This is Daddy´s closet. Look what is in Daddy´s closet.

Students: pants, sweater and a belt.

Teacher: There are pants, a sweater and a belt in Daddy´s closet.

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Fruit and Vegetable Theme

I joined both themes, 4 fruit (apple,banana,pear,orange) and 4 veggies
( onion, carrot, potato,tomato).

Link to all resources to keep students engaged during the language learning process:         https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetable-Activities-for-Elementary-ELLs-2371980

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Nothing like flashcards to introduce the vocabulary words.

GRAPHING.Show the flashcards in random order and one at a time. Have the students stand up if they like the item on the flashcard. Have a student write the results on the board.

Teacher: How many students like apples?

Students: four students!

Use this Domino Game to maintain the learner´s interest.

The cutouts help to create the contexts in which the vocabulary words become meaningful. The students will participate in a conversation by expressing information.

You can print all the puzzle pieces in 11 different colored construction paper. Place a fruit or vegetable on each color.

Teacher: Where is the onion ?

Student: It is on yellow.

Teacher: What is next to the onion ?

Student: a potato on blue.

Teacher: pear!

Student: on orange.

Use the cutouts for introducing This/ These.

 And for sorting fruit and vegetables. Hand in all the cutouts to random students. Write fruit and vegetables on the board and tell them that at your signal they have to run to the board and place them where they belong.

And for more practice of the vocabulary words ,a match game. Make it motivating.  Provide more language practice using the cards in speaking and listening. It can be a game played in pairs asking simple questions. Student 1 who asks the questions has to place the cards in a Yes pile or a No pile, then see how many cards are in each pile.

Student 1: Do you like bananas ? 

Student 2: Yes, I do/ No, I don´t.

And for reading and writing.

Make a print of the cards for each group in class. Have the children in the group shuffle all the cards and place them face down on the table. One student turns two cards and reads or says what is on each card. If the cards are a match, he/she keeps them. If not, the cards must be returned to the table. All students must play. When all the cards are gone from the table, the students have to write a sentence on their notebooks with the cards they have.

Encourage students to interact with the shopping lists. Print all the cutouts or have play food toys available in class. One group will be the shoppers and another will be the sellers. You can have many shops and many shoppers. Hand in each student a shopping list card and the other group the food, not all the food has to be available in all the shops.

The buyers have to go to shopping.

Student Shopper: Do you have tomatoes?

Student Seller: Yes, I do. Here!

Student Shopper: Do you have bananas ?

Student Seller: No, I don´t. Sorry! ( moves on to another shop)

I know that you are always looking for worksheets. Here are 6 of them. Worksheets are good for individual quiet time. Go around asking questions about the pictures. Use them to review written grammar points.  Do your own worksheets and place them on the board so the students can do self-check.

Worksheet 1 and 2:

Worksheet 3 and 4:

  

Worksheet 5 and 6:

Pocket charts are good for students that finish first and need more activities. If you don´t have a pocket chart just have them do the matching on a table or the floor.

There is a fruit and vegetable BUNDLE resource here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fruit-and-Vegetable-unit-BUNDLE-for-ESL-6800542