Greetings and Farewwells Resource

 Greetings and Farewwells Resource

This resource is for teaching starters or Elementary English Language Learners. It comes with flashcards, small cards, worksheets and a flap book with a focus on promoting communicate language.

Find it by clicking here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Greetings-Unit-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-9663484

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This is usually the first class with your Elementary English Language Learners. Prepare your students to use greetings and introductions.Prepare your students for cultural awareness.

Greet your students with your hand as you wave your hand to say Hello! Or hi! Have the class greet each other.

Introduce yourself by writing your name on the board and touching yourself and saying: My name’s _____.

Greetings Unit Flashcards

Use the downloadable Greetings flashcards for the language functions on how to use the greetings: Hi!, Hello! And to introduce oneself.

Impulse communication skills. Put the Greetings flashcards around the classroom. Point to one and say:

Hi, I am Tina.

Encourage your students to point to other flashcards and read the sentence and say a similar one to introduce themselves.

Display any of the flashcards with simple dialogues around the room and say the word or sentence. Have a student go and point to the correct one. Perfect for language practice.

Place the flashcards on the board or a clear plastic sheet and introduce the contraction: I'm. Have the students do the same with each flashcard as a reinforcement.

There is a set small cards for easy printing or small groups teaching. Cut the words out of the card. Place the picture part around the classroom and hand in the written part strip to each student. Have them walk around matching to the picture.

Then, ask questions: What's her name?

Student: Erika

Make craft stick puppets with the small cards. Use them to ask questions:
Is she a girl?
Students: Yes, she is.

This one can be to greet the students and have them answer.

Make a stick puppet by cutting the person on the flashcard or small card and adding a straw. Elicit and ask questions to your students.

Greetings Unit Worksheets

More language to practice with this set of worksheets for guided writing practice. It is for asking and answering questions. It has trace and write the new words.

 How are you? I am fine, thanks. Students can work in pairs and perform the dialogue.

Write the vowels worksheet. Students will do a little spelling here by filling in the blanks with the vowels.

This is a worksheet to give information about oneself. Present student the language for asking people's name. Students should also be able to give their name.

The selfie worksheet. Students can draw themselves in the phone screen template or cut a famous person from a magazine. Then, complete the sentences. Have them produce the language: I’m+name. /My name’s__

Activity idea 1: Put all the selfie worksheets in a bag or box. Pull one out and show it to the class. Ask: Who is it?

Students: It's Rosa Amelia!

Have the class greet with: Hi, How are you?

Conitnue by sleecting another worksheet.

Activity idea 2: Gather all the worksheets, glue and make a poster to use as classroom decoration.

If your students are more into writing texts on their own, these worksheets are great for them. They will write information about themselves. Students can take turns showing their work to small groups or to the class.

 Social interaction can be done as students can walk around with their worksheet asking the question: What’s your name? and writing down the answer.

Questionnaires are interactive and encourage active participation. Students will actively engage in collecting data and practice all language skills

Practice his and her with this worksheet.

A pocket chart is a fun collaborative activity. Keep the pocket chart accessible. Hang it on the wall or a special place where all the students can see it as a visual reference.

Students can make their name card for their desks or print the ones available in this resource. When all the name cards are on the desks, have a group of students stand up and walk around the classroom greeting the students by their name that are sitting down.

Another activity would be: Point to a name card and drill the questions: What is his/her name?
Class: His name is David.

A wrap up activity to make this greetings flap book. This kind of book will focus on cross-cultural learning into how we greet in another language.

 Print both pages for each student. Have them staple on the side and cut along the horizontal lines from the first page to make the flaps.

Students will answer to all to all the phrases or questions on the front flap.

Have your students play with another student reading and answering what is written on the other side of the flap. They can take home the flap book to ask questions to their family members.

There's a video to see the complete activity.

Are you teaching younger students? Find more resources here:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2020/08/greetings-theme-for-kindergarten.html

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Town, Community Helper and Transportation for ESL Part 2

                          This is the blog post for part 1.

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2018/03/town-and-community-helpers-plus.html    Either go to the post or watch the video:

Here is the link to the complete product:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Town-and-Community-Helpers-plus-transportation-themes-for-the-ESL-learner-3735921

You can also find the resource here: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/town-and-community-helpers-plus-transportation-themes-for-the-esl-learner?variant=36958760304804

                 I added a board game. I printed it on a letter size paper. 

                                           Watch the video.

All the town items are in a road circuit. This game will not need a die. Each student will pick a transportation marker, which I taped an opened clip behind the card. The first student picks a card from the pile and reads the questions. Then, moves the transportation marker to the town place and puts the card on it. If the student knows the answer can place the card, if not, that student can’t place the card. The winner is the student that places the most cards on the road. Watch the video:

                                         

 A teacher that bought this product said that the cards were too small. I appreciate when teachers say something to improve. I made the cards a little bigger and they work well for sorting.  The cards can be used for distance teaching by placing a craft stick behind each one and turned into flashcards. The actual flashcards that come in the product are classroom size.

It can be sorted on a table or use the pocket chart. Have the students make sentences.

Teacher: The zoo keepers are at the zoo. They have a jeep.

Just 4 Worksheets for sorting the town places, the community helpers or jobs and transportation. 

First, have the students color the worksheets as you dictate each one, or even better have the students dictate how to color each one. Then, students write the word for each item in all the worksheets.

Teacher: The post office is purple.

Have the students cut all the cards from the worksheets. There are many things that you can do with them. I just thought of sorting.

Students can write sentences on their notebooks.

 

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SEASONS and Weather

           This is the second part of the Seasons Resource. 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Seasons-Theme-Resources-for-Elementary-ESL-1744981
It is also available here:
https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/seasons-unit-for-elementary-esl?variant=37168505684132

 When teaching the Seasons, the Weather vocabulary is up. Here are the flashcards to introduce them.    

                   

I also made them for FREE in Spanish. LINK:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/El-Clima-Flashcards-The-Weather-Flashcards-in-Spaish-5342516

Use the flashcards to sort the Weather into each Season on the board.

                                      Teacher: What season is this ?

Students: Summer !

Teacher: What is the weather ?

Students: It is hot !

Teacher: When is it rainy ?

Students: In the Spring !

Teacher: What is the weather like in the Fall?

Students: It is cloudy and stormy ! 

There is a sorting worksheet to put this into practice. Have the students glue the weather words to each Season box.

This is how it looks like. As I told you before, dictate a color for each season and for each weather word.

Teacher: Winter is pink.

I took the templates provided with the months and had the students match month and weather to each season on their notebooks.

There is also a flap book to put together Seasons, Months and Weather.

There is a set of Seasons, Months and Weather Cards to sort.

It can be sorted out on a desk as group work.

It can be sorted out using recycled Mc Donald’s Fries containers.

Teachers love board games or game boards! Here is another one. Notice that it is a closed game board. Have one of the students throw the dice and depending the number it lands it will be the starting point. For example, if it lands in three or five, the students will start on the rain spot on the board.

The cards can be used or not. The cards are dark yellow and light yellow as the board. If the student lands on light yellow, well, read the light yellow card and answer the question in order to continue playing.

Each student will use a marker picture. I taped an opened clip in the back to make them stand.

Here is the printed the game.

A Seasons and Weather book. I made two versions, a reading book. It is a two in one page format, 7 pages to print.

A coloring and tracing book.

I put the book together using yarn. 

And, watch the video on how the  book looks like.

A pocket chart for extra practice. Students can work alone or in pairs.

I made these cards for writing sentences. It’s like having prompts. Students select words from the cards and write sentences on their notebooks.

 Worksheet one. It is a writing the vocabulary words practice.

Then, have the students cut all the vocabulary word boxes and write sentences.

Worksheet two. Have the students read and color each box. Then, cut each box and place a book ring to read as a book.

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