Day 2 of the 31 days of Halloween 2020 New Resources for ESL or EFL Students

LINK to the Halloween resource: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/31-days-of-Halloween-for-Kindergarten-and-Elementary-ESL-6087756

                                      

 Day 2.  Halloween BINGO game!!  Today it is the BINGO game! I love playing this game in class. There is a template for the students.

The calling cards for the teacher. I only added these colors. If you need more colors just color the students template or let me know to make them for you. 

There are more things to do with the calling cards. I suggest students sort the cards on their template to review the vocabulary.

Incorporate speaking ¡ Take a look.

The sorting can be done on a pocket chart or on the table.

The student’s template can be turned into a mobile. I found this idea of using straws to do it. It was quite easy. I used thin straws but maybe thicker straws would be better. I passed yarn through the Straw to put the mobile up.

 Finished look.

I would love to see how how you used the templates. 

There are cards for many games to play in class.   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2020/10/day-3-of-the31-days-of-halloween-2020.html

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Adjectives and Face for ESL

Link to the resource here for your lesson planning :

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Adjectives-for-Elementary-ELL-2150071

or, It is available here: 

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                         Here are 28 face cards for description.

An example on how to use them for speaking.

Teacher: What number is this ?

Student: Three.

Teacher: Who is she ?

Student: Ann.

Teacher: What color is her hair ?

Student: orange.

Teacher: What color are her eyes ?

Student: green.

Teacher: Ann has orange hair and green eyes.

Students: Sig has brown hair and brown eyes.

Place these two flashcards on a small board to present the order of the adjectives to describe the hair. Use a different marker or chalk for each set of words.

Point to both hair and ask questions.

 Teacher: Look at Kelly. What color is her hair ?

Student: black. The teacher writes the word black. Do the same for Felicia.

Teacher: Look at Felicia. Her hair is long. The teacher writes the word long and trace her long hair. Do the same for Kelly.

Teacher: Look at Kelly. Her hair is curly. The teacher writes the word curly and trace her curly hair. Do the same for Felicia.

Describe Kelly’s hair and then have the students describe Felicia’s. Remember the order: length, type of hair, color.

Teacher: Kelly has short curly black hair.

Teacher: Felicia has long straight blonde hair.

Place the people flashcards on a board. Have the students sort the flashcards into hair color, length and type of hair. Use this opportunity to introduce two more adjectives: handsome for men and pretty for women. 

The students can describe each flashcard after downloading them on the tablet or any other electronic device. Watch the video:

Play Who am I ? Game.

Student 1: Is it a man or a woman?

Teacher: It’s a man.

Student 1: Does he have black hair?

Teacher: No, he doesn’t.

Student 1: Does he have short hair?

Teacher: Yes, he does.

Student 1: Is it C3?

Teacher: Yes, it is!  

Graph the students in class. 

Have the students ask questions to their classmates using the card. 

                   Then make a big graph on the board using the flashcards.

            Scrabble. Have the students make a scrabble puzzle of the adjective words.

                             

                              Just a few more flashcards: happy-sad, young-old.

Check an old blog post related to this resource for more ideas and activities for this same resource. LINK: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2015/10/adjectives-for-elementary-ell.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 verbs for ESL

In many books it is under the label of Seasonal Activities. This is the last blog post related to the Seasons Unit. I have posted Seasons and Months, Seasons and Weather, Seasons and Clothes, Seasons and Nature. Just continue scrolling the blog posts to check them out! Everything is under one product:
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 There are many verbs related to each Season. First, here are the flashcards.

Sort the Flashcards into Seasons on the blackboard.

Teacher: What season is this?

Students: It is Winter.

Teacher: What is he doing?

Students: He is building a snowman.

Place each Season Flashcard on the blackboard. Have the students look into all the flashcards and find the Activities(Verbs) that can be done in each Season.

Teacher: What season is this?

Students: It is Fall.

Teacher: What do we do in the Fall?

Students: Play with the leaves, sit on the pumpkins, rake the leaves, and walk.

                                    Do the same with the other Seasons.

You can use many Verb Tenses with the flashcards. Start with CAN. Use the flashcards to model questions and sentences on the board.

                                        Or model Present Continuous.

                 Or you can introduce the simple past tense questions.

                                     Maybe you can review the future.

As in all the Seasons Units, there is a Sorting Worksheet.

And just two worksheets.

Students complete the worksheet. Then have them cut each picture and glue next to the sentences on their notebooks.

The other worksheet will be used as a BINGO template as well. Using either the colored flashcards placed on the board or the small cards used for the sorting, students write the activities that can be done and the ones that can’t be done in each Season, completing the worksheet in an allotted amount of time, maybe 5 minutes. Some students will have more verbs than others, but that is the idea. Then, announce the BINGO! Use the colored flashcards to call the Verbs. The students will cross out the verb word if they have it written down. The winner is the first one to cross out all the words.

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