Simple past tense with town and prepositions for ESL

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Review the use of prepositions first and then show how to use them in the simple past. I created a set of long cards to place on the board or to ue in groups.

ON-used for days of the week. Write the word on and place the days of the week long cards on the board as in a mind map.

Teacher: On Monday!

Students: On Tuesday ! (continue with more)

IN-used for parts of the day.

                IN - used for months of the year.

AT-used for time of the day.

AT-used for specific place

              Teacher: at school!

              Students: at the pharmacy ! (continue with more)

AT-used for general locations or buildings in a town.

Teacher: at the post office!

Students: at the bank ! (continue with more)

On-used for specific dates and days.

IN - used for seasons.

Now, have the students practice the use of the prepostions.

I made two size of pockets to sort the cards. This one is smaller and can be used on the notebook. This activity can be done individually or in small groups.

And I made another set of pocket a little bigger to be used as a group activity. Just make a pocket by gluing each pocket template onto cardboard and print a set of cards and have the students do the sorting .

Or use plastic plates, you can write a preposition with a dry erase maker and students can do the sorting.

Another idea is to create a flap book, either horizontal o vertical.

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Turkey in disguise for ESL students in Thanksgiving

LINK to the resource: 

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As I was looking for creating a new Thanksgiving  product I came across the cute Turkey in disguise clip art from Scrappin Doodles. I started looking for the Turkey in disguise book, but I just found this poem with no author.

My name is Tom Turkey

And I’m afraid as I can be.

I’m wearing my disguise

So you won’t catch me.

And there’s an audio book video on  YOUTUBE:     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjXTNlW2qaU (Turkey Trouble).

If you are reading the book and have more advanced students, there is a free product at the Teacherspayteachers.com store.

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I thought that it would be good to review the community helpers, jobs and occupations and made several flashcards. Review the vocabulary words using the flashcards.

As many of you have commented that you liked the labeling the flashcards activity. Here is another one.

Play BINGO! With the flashcards. Hand in the 3x3 bingo grid to each student and have them write any of the 20 community helpers, jobs and occupations words. Start call the words with the flashcards and the students cross out the words they hear as you show the flashcard. The winner is the first one to cross out all the words.

Place all the flashcards on the board. Have the students notice that all the turkeys are wearing something or have an object with them.  In an allotted amount of time such as 5 or 10 minutes have them list all the objects. The winner is the one that list the most objects. Have that student dictate them and write them on the board as the class crosses them out. Then, have the class dictate words that haven’t been said.

I created two game board to be used in game stations. Print them and make different groups to play the games.

I place an opened clip behind each character to be used as markers.

 Demonstrate some useful phrases for playing the game: It’s my turn (by pointing to yourself) It’s your turn (by pointing to another person)

I made several flashcards to warm up the phrases that are most common during the game. There’s the flashcard for roll the die, start, finish, move, don’t fight. Introduce those words and leave the flashcards on the board as a reminder.

Then, I created a turkey to be disguised! 

I like to encourage creativity in the classroom to engage my students and to make learning fun and to express the  language that they know. The turkey can be anything, there are hats, shoes, and more to create a very fun disguised turkey. Plase send me pictures of the turkey!

And for some older kids they can write a text. My sister in law did this one. 

 I thought about your students and managed to come up with  the color by numbers pages!

Or something easier, just coloring.

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The Weather was –Simple past of verb to be

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-in-the-past-tense-4976066

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The Weather in simple past of the verb to be. There are several flashcards included in the resource to review: How was the weather?.

Here is an example on using them on the board. 

Teacher: What’s the weather?

Students: windy!

Teacher: Today is windy. (write in down and write each word in a different color.)

Teacher: What’s the weather?

Students: sunny!

Teacher: Yesterday was sunny. (write in down and write each word in a different color.)

Have the students contrast each weather using the worksheet.

Ask more questions using the flashcards.

                            Yes/ No questions using the flashcards.

        Have the students write more sentences using the flashcards.

Days of the week strips to create the Forecast on the board along with weather cards.

Have the students talk about the weather yesterday. I used the days of the week to make a small calendar on the board.

Teacher: What day was yesterday?

Students: Tuesday!

Teacher: How was the weather on Tuesday?

Students: It was humid! (Underline was in each sentence)

I made weather strips to make a forecast on the board.

Write a Weather Forecast. Use all the small cards.

Have the students write sentences on their notebooks following the structure: On Wednesday it was wet. It wasn’t hot. Or It was a cloudy day on Wednesday. Use any structure that you are working on. Give out the small worksheet to create the forecast.

The weather goes on in other cities.

Teacher: What was the weather like in Mexico City?

Students: It was cold!

Or use the flashcards for other countries.

Teacher: What was the weather like in Venezuela?

Students: It was rainy!

I am including the country flashcards as I used in my other blog post about the weather and countries in Simple present. Check the blog post for more things that you can do with the resources. LINK: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2018/02/weather-around-world-for-esl.html

Do the same sorting on a desk or on the floor. Students can check on the internet the weather yesterday and sort all the countries, I just did a small example.

Use the small cards for writing sentences on the notebooks.

I am trying to create game boards for every product. Students love an extra time for playing on their own. I tape a bended clip behind each game marker to make it stand. The game board has 4 colors: red, yellow, blue and green. I wrote 2 specific questions depending on where they land: How was the weather? and How is the weather? In order to have students contrast between both tenses.

This is how my Printable game board turned out.

In this era of recycling I see lots of last year books going to the trash or the teachers not knowing what to do with them. I have posted some ways on how to recycle them. Here is another example. Cut out the pictures and have the students do spelling using plastic plates and dry erase markers, where you can easily erase the words.

Or use a fly swatter with a rectangle cut in the middle to read the words.

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