Greetings and Farewwells Resource

 Greetings and Farewwells Resource

This ELementary English teacher 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.

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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.

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Classroom Commands for ESL

The classroom commands flashcards have been a best seller in the TPT store. Use them to relieve your stress by having to translate. Don't be overwhelmed.Here is a link to the resource to improve your classroom communication. Useful for school counselors.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Commands-Flashcards-1816475

On the first day of class students learn the vocabulary related to inside classroom actions. Make it easy for them to understand and respond to the commands. The ability to follow directions requires daily practice.

Use the commands in class as often as you can. Using the word and picture flashcard will help students focus with all the directions given in English and help you not to translate. Most of the time students don´t know what to do when you give a command, the visuals guide the students to complete the action. 

The imperatives flashcards are also available here:   https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/classroom-commands-flashcards?variant=36931765633188

   Watch the video of the complete resource and check all the flashcards:

School Counselors can help English Learners by incorporating the flashcards as visuals for the students of all languages that need an extra aid to adapt to the new language, if it is in an English Language Speaking Country or at an English language school. Help your students connect to the classroom environment in an easy way. The learners will engage into the activities as they will understand what has be done,no matter their age. 

Language is a communication tool!

Here are the Classroom Commands flashcards!

This set is for the younger learners. The cards come in the letter size for in a classroom setting and small cards, four in one page, for distance teaching. Many teachers display them as rules for their students.

 

This  set is thinking of the older students and the clip art that I used is different. It comes in the letter size, one in each page and then a smaller size for distance learning,four in one page. Perfect to use for your classroom management and get better at your classroom expectations.

A video with all the flashcards!

 The cards come in handy for the start of the school year to introduce students to the language to communicate with you online or not. School sucess will start if your students can follow directions in class.

Here are 4 activities for you. 

 Activity 1. Miming.Give instructions to the class and have them mime the command.  Start with the listen flashcard. The students can touch their ear as they say listen! There are a lot more flashcards that you can use for miming.

Activity 2. Simon Says. I am sure that you know the famous game. Play it using the flashcards if you need to.

Activity 3. Scrambled words on the board. If you are doing distance teaching use a small board and write a command in a jumbled order and have the students unscramble it and write it down on a piece of paper and show it to you or shout the command. Then show the flashcard to confirm or not the answer.  

Teacher: aeeprt

Activity 4. The robot. This is another famous game. Each student will be a robot that will follow the command given by you or a student. They can’t speak, just follow the command. After you say the command word, wait a few seconds and show the flashcard so the students that didn’t understand can do the command action.

CREATE puppets for easy directions to your class.

You can cut the picture and the word and glue it onto a craft stick.

You can make smaller puppets using the smaller set of commands flashcards for ESOL.

The use of this functional language should be clear, specific, and in a positive manner as in the flashcards starting with a verb. Students will do a physical response to the action.

Teacher: Sit down.

I created a set of commands symbols to represent the imperatives (included in the file). You can also put them on the board when you need them. Give orders by pointing to the symbol card. There are a lot more for your classroom instructions.

Don´t use questions in a commandclassroom imperative, it can be thought as a request, like whether you can do it or not.

Teacher: Can you please write your name ?  

The correct form is: Please, write your name.

Use short phrases in an imperative form, as your lessons continue, add new words to the command verb. Repeat until your children are familiar with all these new words.

Teacher: Listen to me.

         Write with your pen.

Grab student´s attention before each command. I use shakers or any noisy object , that will indicate the class that an instruction will come. Also, vary the volume and pitch of your voice. Use gestures and body language. Establish eye contact with the students when giving an order.

After giving the instruction, take the time to pause, wait, give the students the opportunity to comply, don´t threaten them. Stand close to the students when giving a command. Use some student´s name when giving a command. Be polite and respectful.

Teacher: Roberto, be quiet, please.

Don´t use commands as criticism.  Teacher: Mary, didn´t you listen ?  say: Mary, please listen .Touch her ear or show her the listen symbol.

Give the commands one at a time. Repeat maybe once, but not a series of 5 times each command. Even more when working with the youngest learners.  Always praise the students for complying to all the commands.

Teacher: Please ,sit down. (pause)  Thank you, class.

             Take out your book. (pause) ( Ok, very good)

           Open your book on page 12. (pause) ( Great, we are ready)

Too many and unnecessary commands are annoying . Think if you are giving commands that are not contributing to the lesson.

Don´t use STOP commands, such as:

Teacher: Stop coloring. Don´t  color. All commands should be positive.

The stop sign is mainly for games, and used with the Go sign.

 Collocations are words that can work together. It´s a combination of a verb and a noun. Give examples and have students make more collocations with all the other flashcards.

Teacher: Look at the board.

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