Present Continuous Flashcards

This is part 1 using more than 200 flashcards for Speaking activities.
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Activity 1. Place the flashcards on the board and say a wrong sentence on purpose for each flashcard.

Teacher: She is eating spaghetti.

Students: No! She is eating a hamburger.

Activity 2. Show a flashcard and have the students do the action and say the word. Do with as many flashcards as you can.

Students: dancing! Dancing! (as they do the action).

Activity 3. Students write a 3x3 Bingo board on their notebooks. Place all the action flashcards on the board that you are working on. Students choose 9 action words and write them on each square. Take away all the flashcards from the board, mix them up and start calling the verb flashcards as you show each one to the class. Students cross out the ones that they have, the first student to do it shouts BINGO!

Activity 4. Place the eat flashcards on the board. Designate a student a flashcard. Ask questions.

Teacher: Are you eating cake?

Student : Yes, I am.

Teacher: Am I eating ice cream?

Student : Yes, You are.

Activity 5. Make a grid on the board using the flashcards.

Teacher: B2!

Student: Dancing. They are dancing.

Teacher: She is opening her locker.

Student: C3!

Activity 6. Relate the weather to the present continuous.

Teacher: It’s hot. What are they doing ?

Students: (pointing to each flashcard) He is roller skating. She is cutting her tree. He is drinking a soda. He reading a book.

Write a name next to each flashcard. Ask questions.

Teacher: It’s raining. What is Ken doing ?

Students: (pointing to each flashcard) He is walking.

Teacher: It’s snowing. Rose!

Students: skiing! She is skiing.

Have the children write sentences on their notebooks.

Activity 7. And the time. Review the time with the flashcards as you place them on the board.

Teacher: It’s eleven o’clock. What is Grandpa doing?

Students: He is planting flowers.

Teacher: It’s five o’clock. Who is walking the dog?

Students: Father is walking the dog.

Teacher: It’s nine o’clock. Is Sister writing?

Students: Yes, she is. 

Activity 8. Family Members are doing something.

Teacher: What is Father doing ?.

Students: He is drinking coffee.

Teacher: Who is walking ?.

Student 1: Aunt is walking.

Teacher: Is the baby sitting or standing?

Student 1: The baby is sitting on the floor.

Students can bring personal photos and do a show and tell.

Activity 9. Routines. Place the get up flashcard on the board and mime getting up. Have the students mime getting up and say the sentence: I am getting up. Continue with more daily routines as you place the flashcards on the board.

Point to each flashcard and ask questions.

Teacher: What is he doing?.

Student 1: He is making his bed.

Say a name of a flashcard in random order and have a student come up and point to it and say a sentence.

Teacher: take!

Student 1: He is taking a shower. ( pointing to the flashcard)

Activity 10. Place several flashcards on the board and write the questions words: 

Who, What; Where?

Teacher: CLIMB!

Students: Where is he climbing?

Teacher: He is climbing in Bolivia.

Students: Who is he climbing?

Teacher: Peter is climbing in Bolivia.

Students: What is he doing?

Teacher: He is climbing a mountain in Bolivia.

Have the students write questions on their notebooks.

Activity 11. Collocations. Place three flashcards on the board.

Teacher: What are they doing ?

Students: They are sitting.

Teacher: Where is he sitting ?

Students: He is sitting on a bench.  (write on a bench)

Continue with the other two. Tell students that adding words to a verb gives more details to a sentence in Present Continuous.

Activity 12. Now, place only one flashcard on the board. I used studying. Have the students dictate words to make more sentences.Create a mind map on the board.

Students: Math!

Teacher: She is studying Math.

Activity 12. TOWN.Make sentences using a town location. I made pairs of a place and a verb. Make sentences.

Teacher: They are running in the park.

Students: Where are they running ?

Teacher: sitting!

Students:Bank!

Activity 13. But transportation has its own verbs. Present ride, drive and fly. Then once again do collocations.

Teacher: Ride!

Students: ride a bike, ride a taxi, ride a motorcycle

Continue with drive and fly.

Students can add more words for any verb.

Student: ride a jeep!

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ESL Weather and Action Verbs

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Tell students that depending on the weather there are things that they can do or not.

Teacher: What is he doing ?

Students: He is playing golf.

Teacher: Is it sunny or windy ?

Students: It´s sunny.

                    This time, 81 verb flashcards are ready. 

Flashcards 1. The students can sort the flashcards for the activities that can be done in each Season or Weather.

Teacher: Can you drive in the Winter ?

Students: Yes, you can.

Teacher: Can you drive in the Summer?

Students: Yes, you can.

Flashcards 2. Let´s! Place the flashcards on the board and introduce sentences with Let´s.

Teacher: Let´s ski in the snow.

Students: Let´s walk in the snow.

Game board.  Place a flashcard and the game board model on the board to make examples for playing.

Teacher: He is playing baseball. It is rainy. (because I landed on the rainy spot) Can He play baseball ?

Students: No, he can´t.

Then, the student can´t move for next turn.

Another example. Teacher: He is playing baseball. It is partly cloudy.  Can he play baseball?

Students: Yes, he can. (The player can move for next turn)

Think of verbs. Give the students the template for each weather and have them think of verbs related to each weather and write them. Hang the weather verbs! Or students can paste them on their notebooks and write sentences with the verbs.

Another writing activity. Hand in  the templates to the students. They glue it on their notebooks or posters, but glue only the top border, so they can complete the sentences with the verb.

A Verb Pictionary.  I have these cute frog clipart. The students cut the frog pictures and glue when they belong. The students color the letters of each word. Bind it all and make an actual Pictionary.

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Weather around the world for ESL

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I made a lot of flashcards from different countries around the world.

You can group the flashcards according to  the continents. I used America for my example. Check the real weather on internet before the activity or have them do it before the class. Have it ready. Link: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/

Flashcards 1. Sort the countries according to the weather.

Teacher: What ´s the weather in Jamaica? 

Students: It´s warm. It´s partly cloudy.

Flashcards 2.

Teacher: In Brazil ,it is hot. And what about in Germany?

Students: It is cold in Germany.

Do more examples.Teacher: There is snow in Estonia. Is it cold ?

Student: Yes, it is.

Teacher: What season is it ?

Students: It is Winter.

And here´s Argentina.

 I made a smaller version for the students to look up the weather around the world on internet and make some posters.

 Students can talk about their poster.

Student: Today it is hot and sunny in Kenya and Chad. It is 37ºCelsius in Chad and 26º Celsius in Kenya.

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Weather and Clothes Themes for the ESL Learner

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Flashcards 1. Place the people Flashcards on the board.

Have the children guess the weather. I wrote the numbers from 11 to 20 to practice them.

Teacher: What is the weather like in Number 15?

Students: It´s cold and snowy.

Teacher: Is it snowy in number 18?

Students: No, it isn´t. It´s sunny and hot.

Flashcards 2. Place the weather flashcards on the board (rainy, sunny, windy, snowy).

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Place the frog´s clothes on a desk.

Call on individual students to come and pick a piece of clothing, show it to the class, say the word and place it where it belongs according to the weather.

Student: raincoat! Rainy!

Flashcards 3. Weather and adjectives. Divide the board in two and write the words hot and cold. Place the sun flashcard on the hot side and a snowflake flashcards on the cold side. Have the students sort the frog´s clothes.

Then, dress up your frog for the hot or the cold weather.

Flashcards 4. Weather and seasons.

Show the students several flashcards and ask questions.

Teacher: Which season is it ?

Students: It´s winter.

Teacher: Yes! But, why? What is he wearing?

Students: He is wearing a hat a coat, pants, and boots.

Give the students the flashcards and have them sort the people according to the season.

Teacher: How is the weather in the Spring?

Students: It´s rainy.

Have the students sort the flashcards according to the weather.

Teacher: What´s the weather like ?

Students: It´s cold.

Teacher: What is the boy wearing?

Students: He is wearing a hat, a jacket, mittens,pants and boots.

Have the students say what they wear for each weather.

Students: I wear a raincoat and boots on a rainy day.

Activity 1. After this practice, hand in the frog template to each student.

Have them color their frog by using only the 11 colors that we use in the class (and for the Bingo later) but only in one color each piece and dress the frog according to a specific weather.

Place the Weather flashcards (from the previous blog post) around the room. Students listen to the weather that you mention and walk with their frog and stand next to the flashcard.

Teacher: Winter frogs come here!

Then count together how many students are at each flashcard and have them say which weather has the most students.

Activity 2. Play frog Bingo! Since all the students have their frogs ready. Play Bingo.   Print and cut all the Bingo cards and place them in a bag or box and start calling out all the clothes:

Teacher: a red shirt!

Activity 3. Fashion Catalog. Since it is a favorite in my store I added it including more summer and winter clothes. Just print a page per student and have them look for clothes in magazines to cut and paste as in a catalog. Divide the whole class into 4 groups so one group will do the Winter Catalog, another the Summer one and then assign Fall and Spring. I´d love to see pictures of this if you do it.

Activity 4. Write the clothes words. Have the students write the clothes that are worn in each weather. You can hang them up in class.

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