The adjective flashcards are here to promote the use of natural language.
Place
this adjective flashcard on the board for talking about physical appearance .
Ask questions to develop the oral and listening skills.
Teacher: Look at this man. He is tall. (write the word tall
in white)
Look at this man. He is short. (write the word short in
white)
Do
the same with thin and fat but with a yellow chalk. Assign a name to each man.
Make sentences.
Teacher: Pedro is tall and thin. Eddy is fat and short.
Have
the class pick two students to make more sentences similar to the example.
Here
we have happy and sad flashcards. Do the same.
Teacher: Who is this?
Student: He is Danny.
Teacher: Danny is happy.
Teacher: Who is this?
Student: He is Joe.
Teacher: Joe is sad.
Have
two students come to the front and act as a happy and sad. The class has to
make more sentences.
Introduce
new and old with the flashcards. Show students the difference that these words are used for things.
Point to the first car.
Teacher: What is this?
Student: It is a car.
Teacher: It is a new car.
Teacher: What is this?
Student: It is orange.
Let’s
go with clean and dirty flashcards.
Teacher: What are these?
Student: They are pants.
Teacher: They are clean pants.
Teacher: They are dirty pants. Point to the dirt spots.
Have
the students walk around and find examples with more clothing items and say the
corresponding sentence.
I can’t miss, big and small.
Teacher: What is this?
Student: It is a backpack.
Teacher: It is a big backpack. And this?
Student: It is a small backpack.
There is a game I found called Grumpy Grandpa in this
book.
I
adapted it and made my own version.
It is a good idea to have the students get familiar
with the cards by matching them on the table first.
This game can be played in pairs or in groups of three.
There are 24 cards. Give each group a set of cards. Students shuffle the cards
and hand them all out to the members of the group. Students hold all the cards
in their hands without showing them to the group. Explain that the idea of the
game is to make pairs of picture and words. The first student to make them by
getting rid of all the cards is the winner. Have them notice that there is a
Funny Guy card that does not match to any word.
Student
1 picks a card without seeing from the next to him/her and checks if it makes a
pair to his/her own cards. If there is a pair, the students lay the pair on the
table. The game continues until the first students gets rid of all the cards.
Since many of you are doing distance teaching these
days, use the game cards to introduce the new vocabulary, they are small enough
to manage through the small screen. Watch the video, I did some examples with
my girls.
More examples:
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Your ideas and feedback allow me to help you.
