Zoo animals Flashcards for Elementary English Language Learners

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Teaching the zoo unit provides a real-world context that is relevant to children's lives. The theme is across the science subjects. Many students might have been to a zoo and it will be fun to know their experiences.

Write the word zoo on the board and ask students the name of zoo animals they know. Start putting them on the board as they say the word as in a mind map.

Teacher: There is a bear in the zoo.

Have students make similar sentences.

Model demonstrative sentences using the zoo animals for describing.

Teacher: This is an elephant. It’s gray.

Students: This is a lion. It’s brown.

Place the flashcards on the board and write a number next to it. Ask questions: What is number 2?
Students: It’s a monkey!
Teacher: What color is number three?
Students: orange!
Teacher: is number five an elephant?
Students: Yes, it is.
Teacher: is number two a bear?
Students: No, it isn’t. It’s a, monkey.

 

 activity: Run to the card. Place all the flashcards on the board in random order and disorganized. Divide the class into two or more teams. Call out an animal. The first student to touch with a pencil or pen the correct one wins a point for the team.

activity: Listen and stand up! Distribute all the flashcards to all the students, you can even give out more than one. Call out an animal and the student who has it must stand up and say the word. That student 
can´t sit down again. Play until there is one student left, who is the winner.

Animals come in groups and use it for reviewing plurals.  Write a number next to each flashcard. Ask questions: Look at flashcard number 2. What are they?
Students: They’re kangaroos!
Look at flashcard number 3. Are they lions?
Students: Yes, they are.
Look at flashcard number 4. Are they zebras?
Students: No, they aren’t.

Play Yes or No! Print and have ready the puppets. One per group or for each child. Students can also make their own puppets by gluing the cards onto wooden sticks of your preference.

You can ask questions: Is this a penguin?

 and the students will show the corresponding card puppet and say: 

Yes, it is !

As a variation, say statements like: This is a green penguin!

Use the puppets with any unit or theme.

Finally, here's the video: 

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Thanksgiving Printable Book for ESL: Turkey on the Farm

 Adding a new Thanksgiving resource to all the other that are already here on the blog. Check them at the label section on the right column.

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                                                             Print the pages of the book.

 Students can make individual books or group books. Students will color each page as they read the sentences.

There is a set of a turkey surrounded by several objects and pages describing each item. You an put them together.  I would make the students color the separate items first and then look them up in the turkey picture and color accordingly.

Another example:

       The pages are meant to review vocabulary from the farm unit that might have previously taught.

the last set of turkey and vocabulary pages.

                                       Put all the sets together and bind the pages of the book.

Prepare all the toilet paper roll puppets. You can also do craft sticks or flannel board cutouts for storytelling.

                                       You can also practice prepositions. 

Teacher: Put the turkey in front of the barn.

Teacher: What color is the barn ?

Students: It's read and white.

More examples for practicing prepositions.

Students can say positional sentences to other students to find the items and place them in the correct postion.

Student: The turkey is in front of the barn.

You can place the puppets in any position and ask questions.

Teacher: Where is the turkey'

Students: It is between the basket and the chicken.

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Birthday Unit for ESL

        Birthday Unit Resource for Elementary English Language Learners

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Let’s start by introducing: Happy Birthday! And the response: Thank You. Have the students sit in a circle and  say Happy Birthday ! to the student next to him/her and that student responds Thank you and does the same to the one next to him/her.

I made  the  ‘s wand  out of fun foam using the template in this product and glued it onto a thick craft stick. Use it to introduce: It’s Ann’s birthday.

Birthday Vocabulary Flashcards. Great for introducing the new party vocabulary and food .

Activity 1. Write the three words on the board: food, drinks and things. Have the students look through the flashcards and sort them out and place them where they belong.

Teacher:  name the flashcards under things.

Students: flower, candle, balloon, hat, present, lollipop.

Activity 2. Play the birthday game. Place 10 flashcards on the board and assign a number for each one. You can use the ten numbers as well. Say something about the flashcard and have the students say which one it is.

Teacher:  It’s round. You can eat it. It has pepperoni. It is big.

Students: Pizza!

Teacher:  What number is the pizza?

Students: Number 2!

Teacher:  What is number 1?

Students: It is a gift!

Teacher:  What color is the gift?

Students: It is pink and blue! 

For extra practice students can write sentence with a white board marker on the flashcards placed inside a clear plastic sheet.

Introduce the plurals of the nouns using the S,es,ies puppet. I made mine out of fun foam. You can make a puppet for each case and use it for any unit. 

Use the puppets and the flashcards to explain each plural case.

Teacher:  What is it?

Students: It is a hot dog!

Contrast!

Teacher:  What are they?

Students: They are hot dogs!

              Plurals lead to counting Birthday objects and food.

Teacher:  What are these?

Students: They are cookies!

Teacher:  How many cookies are there?

Students: There are six!

Have the students use the adjective noun word order: six brown cookies

And introduce the uncountable nouns using the flashcards. I would place the drinks which are usually uncountable unless in comes in a glass of juice, for example. I did those flashcards as well.

Finally, brainstorm Birthday party nouns with your students. Place the Birthday party flashcard on the board and make a mind map by asking them what should be at the party. Write down the words that you don’t have a flashcard for it. Then students can create their own mind map on their notebooks.

Teacher:  There are streamers.

Students: There are invitations.

Teacher:  There is a cake.

Ask students:

Teacher:  Peter, What do you want?

Peter: a cupcake.

Take the cupcake from the board and give it to Peter. Continue with more examples.

And done with the nouns, let’s move on to the verbs. Children do things at the party. Here are the flashcards.

Teacher:  Point to a flashcard. What is he doing?

Students: He is taking a picture.

Continue with more.

Use the verb flashcards for making collocations.Place the verb eat on the board and have the students find the flashcards to create the collocations.

Teacher: eat ice cream!

Student 1: eat corn dog !

                  

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Halloween Activities for the ESL student

Another Halloween again! I prepared this resource with many things. Hope you like it. 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Activities-for-ESL-4937335

Let’s start with Halloween Flashcards!

 Picture Dictionary. Hand in the 3 pages for making the picture dictionary. It is a good idea to do this in groups. This is a cut and paste activity.

I love tracing cards. It is a spelling activity that can be done using the clear plastic sheet. Just as some native language students learn to trace words in Preschool some ESL learners benefits from tracing.

I made another set of tracing cards that can work as coloring cards. Practice coloring the body parts and/or the clothes.

I made a smaller version of the tracing cards to create an accordion book.

First, I glued one card onto another.

Then, I folded all the cards into an accordion.

I traced the cover onto cardboard to make the other part of the book. I glued the first page onto the cover and the last one onto the cardboard.

Just a worksheet to place all the words in ABC order.

Spelling Bingo is always a fun game to play. Use the small cards or the Big Flashcards to call the Bingo words. Students just write a playing word in each part of the spinner. They have to cross out the word that is being called if they have it.

If Spelling Bingo is not enough. Try Spelling Scrabble. I added the Scrabble letters. I printed them onto Halloween colored paper, I chose orange and purple. I did my example using the puppets, you can use any of the small cards in the resource.

I also made worksheets with all the Halloween Characters without the face parts and for the students to color the clothes items.

Teacher: This is Dracula. He has green eyes, a small nose and funny mouth. 
Students draw as indicated.

You can also dictate how he is dressed or have them color the clothes and then describe his clothes.

Students: Dracula is wearing a black and red cape, gray pants and brown shoes.

I made all the characters into puppets using toilet paper rolls. Here are just a few and made a haunted house, it comes in two pages which you will have to glue to make a big one. I printed mine onto orange cardboard and colored the door, the windows and roof to review parts of the house.

Teacher: What color is the door?

Students: It’s brown!

Use the puppets to review the words.

Teacher: Who is he?

Students: He is the Mummy!

Teacher: Who is she?

Students: She is the Witch!

I also used the puppets to do prepositions practice.

Teacher: Where is the Devil?

Students: She is in front of the Haunted House!

 Teacher: Where is Frankenstein?

Students: He is behind the Haunted House!

Teacher: Where is the Witch?

Students: She is in the Haunted House!

Or have the students write about where the characters are.

A game board for those minutes of free play!

I taped an opened clip behind each game piece to make it stand as a marker.

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