More Clothes Theme Resources and Ideas for ESL learners

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I am adding even more ideas and activities for the clothes theme from a previous post. Link to check: http://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2017/01/clothes-resources-for-elementary-ell.html

Starting with flashcards for the clothes unit to promote the use of spontaneous language.

Have two students stand in front of the class with two flashcards.

Teacher: Look at the skirt. It´s Karen´s skirt. (Point to the skirt and the girl)

Teacher: Look at the shirt. It´s  Henry´s shirt. (Point to the shirt and the boy)

Name a piece of clothing and the students say who they belong.

Teacher: dress!

Students: It´s Karen´s dress!

Teacher: Whose sweater is this?

Ask Henry and Karen questions.

Teacher: Henry, What clothes do you have?

Henry: I have a white shirt and a brown sweater.

Place 4 Flashcards on the board and write a name for each one.

Teacher: Who has a blue jacket?

Students: Carlos! Carlos has a blue jacket.

Teacher: Who has a green skirt?

Students: Ellen! Ellen has a green skirt.

Make sentences.

Teacher: Ellen has a green coat. She has a yellow blouse. She has a green skirt and green shoes. She has a pink purse.

Play a guessing game.

Put up 10 flashcards on the board.  Write a number under each one. I used counting by 10s.

Have the students guess which card is the selected one by you.

Students:  Is the person wearing a dress ?

Teacher:  No!

Students:  Is the person wearing pants ?

Teacher:  No!

Students:  Is the person wearing a skirt ?

Teacher: YES!

Students:  Is the person wearing a long skirt ?

Teacher:  YES!

Students:  Is the person wearing a hat ?

Teacher:  YES!

Students:  It´s number 40 !

Teacher: YES!

Numbers. Place several flashcards on the board and write a number word under each clothing item. Hand in the Number Flashcards 1 to 20 and have them look for their number word and place the flashcard where it belongs.

Student: The blouse is number 20.

Sort by season! Place the 4 Seasons flashcards on the board. Hand in all the clothing flashcards and designate a group for each Season. Students have to sort the flashcards and place them in the Season where they belong as in a mind map.

Students: It´s Spring. We can wear a cap and jeans.

Moving on to activities and worksheets.

Magazine pictures. Have the children choose pictures from magazines. Have them write 5 sentences for each pictures on a separate paper.  You choose more pictures to add interest and difficulty. Place the pictures on the board and hand in the texts with the sentences to random students. At your signal they all stand with their assigned text and find the picture that matches their text.

Create your sweater. Have the students color the sweater they chose. They can add as many details they want. Then, cut out the sweater and be ready to compare with other students. Have them add a price tag. Perfect for adjectives.

Teacher: My sweater is the biggest.

Student 1: My sweater is the smallest.

Student 2: My sweater is more expensive than Pedro´s.

Ask questions.

Teacher:  How much is the green sweater?

Student: It´s 10 $.

Teacher: Tomas, is this sweater yours?

Student: Yes, it is.

I added the frog and clothes worksheets from my weather blog post. Have the students dress the frog according to a Season.

Clothes and family. Display all the family flashcards on the board.  Have the students identify all the family members. Then have them describe what the family members are wearing. Repeat with all the family members.

Teacher: Who is this?

Students: Mother!

Teacher: What is Mother wearing?

Students: She is wearing a brown dress.

Teacher: Who is wearing a purple skirt?

Students: Grandmother!

Give the students the clothes labels and the family pictures. Have them color the clothes as you dictate, good for listening activity.

Teacher: Mother 's dress is red.

Then, the students glue the label next to the corresponding item of clothing.

Clothes cutouts. Students can cut clothing items out of several magazines and place them in an envelope for many speaking activities between pairs.

Student1: What is this? (Showing the cutout)

Student 2: It Is a green sweater.

Clothes Worksheets. Sort the clothes into like and don´t like. Have the students cut out clothing items that they like and the ones that you don´t like and glue them in the corresponding box. Then, have a show and tell or they can write sentences.

Student: I like this jacket. I do not like that dress.

I am wearing worksheet. Have the students complete the sentences with the correct piece of clothing. Then have them either show and tell or write sentences to contrast singular and plural.     I am wearing a sweater. I am wearing shoes.

This is my favorite worksheet. Students can draw or cut outs clothes they love.

and a last worksheet....writing sentences!

This resource is part of the Clothes Unit BUNDLE. Check it out!

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Recycle old ESL Elementary Textbooks

As a teacher, I have had so many teacher´s book, student´s book, workbook and from different grade, levels and so on. I saw how the children threw them away at the end of the school year. I used to give them away for paper recycling but those places are not around anymore. Old textbooks are not good for donations, since the Publishing Companies come out with different series every year.

I still have several from my teaching days and decided to invent something. This is how it went with my Early Childhood and Elementary Series Textbooks.

Sorting. For the family theme there lots of pictures of family members, I just cut them out .I made a word card for each family member and had the students sort out all the pictures.

The pocket chart is another way to sort out all the pictures.

I found this old pocket folder. I grabbed clear pocket sheets, one for each family member. Students glued the word and the corresponding pictures. I used butterfly clips and made a book. Students can write each word using whiteboard markers and then erase it.

Sorting spoons in nouns, verbs, adjectives. Another sorting activity involving cups and spoons. I wrote Verbs, Adjectives and Nouns on each cup. Give the students the plastic spoons and sharpie markers. Have them write a word from the text on each spoon and have the group partners place it where it belongs.

Make a book. Many textbooks come with short stories that are  read like once in the classroom. Have the students make an accordion book.

Play Spelling Bingo. Give each child the short reading recycled page. After reading the story  using your preferred technique. Have the students select 15 words from the reading and write them down. Make your own list and cut out each word, place them in a bag. Start calling the words and the students tick them if they have that word written on their paper. The first student to tick them all off calls out BINGO!

Sort Noun and Verbs. Give the reading recycled page to each student and have them sort the words in two columns, one for verbs and another for nouns.

Write sentences. After reading the recycled story, students can write sentences in a grammar structure that you want to practice.

Match paragraph. I cut the story in pictures and paragraphs and placed them in a Cd sleeve. Students had to match each paragraph with the corresponding picture.

Sentence Association. There was this review page. I cut the picture and sentence and make a sentence association game. I glued all the cutouts onto fun foam.

Egg carton Alphabet Sort. I placed a small craft stick behind each cutout. I also glued a fun foam letter to each egg hole. Students sort all the pictures by the beginning letter of each picture.

Make a crown for each letter. With so many pictures from the book. I made a crown for each letter. Students have to find pictures that begin with the letter in the crown given and glue them accordingly.  Have the students show their crown to the class and the words that they found.

Write vocabulary words. Have the students glue each picture and write as many vocabulary words they know. The winner is the student that writes more words.

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Circus Unit for the Elementary ELL

This is the next level to my last post at my other blog, more for the students in the Elementary grades.

http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2018/04/circus-unit-for-preschool-ell.html

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 Let´s start with the flashcards. 

Distribute a Circus flashcard to each student. Have the students name each Circus animal ,Circus character or food. Say the category. Student:  It´s the acrobat.  Person.

Student:  It´s the elephant.  Animal

                                                   

Have the students  sort the flashcards into people and animals on the board.

Have the students  sort the Circus Flashcards as in Person, place or things and introduce the concept of noun in English.

Students can do their own sorting using the printables. Print as many as you need for Person, place or thing. The templates can be used as cards. Have the students sort them into person, place or thing.

Circus Verbs Flashcards. I had these lovely clown clip art and thought of Flashcards to play some games.

Circus verbs Book. To review what the students learned with the flashcards. There are 28 pictures of the clown and the sentence, it can be used as a game, but the students can have fun matching and pasting the sentences to the pictures. Put them together and make a class book to take home by turns and read to the parents.

Worksheet . I did this one for preschoolers but I like to do labeling with the worksheets, it is a way to extend the activity a little bit more.

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Town and Community Helpers, plus transportation themes for the ESL learner.

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In this blog post we will relate the community helpers to where they work and add their transportation.

Introduce the buildings using the flashcards. Ask the students who works in each building.

Match the building flashcard (school) to the community helpers (teachers) and people (students) flashcards. In this example more than person goes to the same building.

Now, make sentences.

Teacher: What is this?

Students: It´s the Hospital.

Teacher: Who works in a hospital?

Students: The nurse and the doctor.

More questions.

Teacher: Who is he ?

Students: He is the pilot.

Teacher: Where is the pilot?

Students: He is at the airport.

Place all the people flashcards on one side and the buildings on the other.

Say the name of a community member and the students have to answer with the work place and then the opposite.

Teacher: farmer!

Students: Farm!

Teacher: theater!

Students: ballerina!

Let´s pretend. Have the students pick a community helper and the corresponding work place and stand in front of the class holding a flashcard in each hand.

Teacher: Who are you ?

Student: I am a firefighter.

Teacher: Where are you ?

Student: I am at the fire station.

Where are you going to? Give several students a community member necklace and give the building flashcards to the other group. They stand in front of each other in random order.

Teacher: Who are you ?

Student: I am a clown.

Teacher: Where are you going to?

Student: I am going to the circus. (and walks to the corresponding flashcard)

I made small cards for the same matching exercise. Give  several groups the same set of cards and ask the children to match the cards in the shortest period of time. The first group to finish is the winner.

Place the building flashcards and the transportation cutouts for each one on a desk. Give instructions.
Teacher: There is an ambulance in front of the hospital. There are two fire trucks, one is next to the fire station and the other is in front of the fire station.

And I made people and transportation cutouts. I glued them onto toilet paper rolls and I used longer rolls for the flashcards.

Teacher: There is an ambulance in front of the Hospital.

Teacher: There are two ambulances in front of the Hospital.

More examples to say to the students and have them locate the ambulances.

Teacher: There is an ambulance in front of the Hospital. There is an ambulance next to the Hospital. There is ambulance behind the Hospital.

Teacher: The doctor and the nurse are in front of the Hospital.

And here is the whole scene for the Hospital.

You can do more locations using the cutouts set.

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