Zoo animals Small Cards

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Elementary English Specialist Teacher can find this resource useful. Click here:

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Playing with the small cards will have the students master the sense of progress. They can add as many cards with the zoo animals as they wish. These small cards serve as a visual aid. Easy to associate the zoo animal word to the picture. Use the cards in your lesson plan for elementary ESL.

Print and cut the cards that you will need. There are more than 50 animals to choose from.

Capture your learners' interest and motivation with this simply easy game. Cut the word out of each small card and have the student match the picture to the word. It would be fun to do in small groups helping ELLs remember the new vocabulary.

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Sorting the zoo animals based on their characteristics. This exposure will build a more diverse and rich vocabulary use for your learners. The sorting will be into long/short legs, long/short arms, long/short tail, big/small ears.

Print the labels for the fries’ containers that you have previuusy gathered. Glue onto the containers and open them up for the activity.

Sorting activities are great for language practice, as students need to communicate their reasoning for why they sorted the zoo animals based on their physical characteristics.

 This promotes speaking and listening skills, as well as vocabulary usage when the students discuss where to put the small card. Here is an example of long tools and short tail.

 Students: The lion has a long tail. The rhino has a short tail.

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Sorting activities can be easily adapted to meet the diverse needs of ELLs in the classroom. Pair students accordingly to have a fun and smooth game.

Student1: The gibbon has long arms.
Student 2: the racoon has small arms.

Provide clear instructions and model the sorting processes.
Teacher: The rhino has short legs!
The flamingo has long legs.

Sort the zoo animals with ears into big and small.

Finally, give feedback to your students about their sorting choices.

Here’s the sorting into long or short tails.

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Zoo animals Eat Activity

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Click here: 

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Learning about zoo animals and their eating habits makes English learners review the vocabulary related to animals, food, and eating behaviors. This can be included into the prioduction parts of the lesson plan in english.

There is a set of small cards in color for making a sorting activity. Includes the animals and the food.

Exploring how zoo animals eat provides English learners the opportunity to describe their observations on what and how the animal’s eating habits. I used a pizza box as a sorting mat.

Place the animal cards on the top line of the box and then have the students place what the animals eat cards under each animal.

 You can also have the learners sort the cards into carnivores, omnivores and herbivores

Teaching English learners about zoo animals incorporates elements of science enhancing their overall knowledge and understanding of the natural world. Use the set of worksheets to do their own sorting mat for these animals.

Exploring how zoo animals eat can stimulate critical thinking as they start coloring and gluing the cards on the cardboard. It can be an individual lesson or a group activity.If your students created one, please show me!

And find here a list of what zoo animals eat.

Print and display the cards to introduce the vocabulary related to what food animals eat. Place several flashcards on the board.
Teacher: What is number 1?
Students: It´s a giraffe.
Teacher: What does the giraffe eat? (Have the students guess and say what they know even if in the native language)
Then, start placing the food cards.
Teacher: The giraffes eat leaves, twigs and fruit. (Emphasize leaves, twigs, fruit).   Continue with the other flashcards.

Place the food cards and have the students place the common animals that eat that food.

Sort the food that the animals eat. Have the students make and write sentences. Give examples.

Teacher: The kangaroo and the elephant eat grass. They don´t eat fish.

Use the cards to review countable and uncountable nouns related to the food the zoo animals eat.

                                       

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Zoo animals Move Flashcards.

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Click here:

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Teach your learners about how the zoo animals move and review the vocabulary related to the locomotion expanding their language skills.

Perfect for introducing or reviewing the verbs. Write a verb under each flashcard to show what each zoo animal is moving. Encourage the ELLs to observe and describe how the animals move in each flashcard.

Then, place two flashcards on the board. Ask the students what the animals are doing. Write the verb and ask questions.
Teacher: Can the bear climb trees?
Students: Yes, it can.
Teacher: Can the elephant climb trees?
Students: No, it can´t.

Sort what the animals can do using the flashcards: walk. Gorilla, monkey, hippo and ostrich!

Animals have same abilities. Sort them out.
Teacher: Which animals can climb?
Students: the monkey, the bear.

Some zoo animals can fly. Write the words can fly and have the students guess which animals can do the action, as they do it themselves in a mime.

Or create a sorting table on the board and students can come up t place the flashcards to the corresponding verb.

Integrate the animal movement with the physical education activities. Have the students imitate the movement of the animals on each card. Use my movement verb table.

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The dog and the Prepositions for Elementary ELL

 This resource is included in the Pets Unit for Elementary ELL- Starters and it is ALSO available as an individual resource here: 

LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-dog-and-the-Prepositions-for-Elementary-ELL-11385429

Teaching the Prepositions of location are essential in constructing longer sentences to express the relationship between objects and the pets, in this case I focused on the dogs. Proficiency in prepositions facilitates language development. It is all here to write the lesson plan for your elementary ELLs.

Start by printing your dog and the prepositions flashcards to provide clarity to describe spatial relationship with precision using the dog as the center of the activity.

Teacher: The dog is on the bed.

There is a set of cutouts in color and b/w to aid the comprehension of the prepositions. They work well for listening and speaking activities. Have your set ready and the students will create their own by coloring the cutouts and adding an opened clip behind each cutout to have them stand.

Learners will understand instructions and use the cutouts to physically show what was said.

Teacher: The dog is next to the doghouse.

Students can give directions for the class to perform.

Print the quilt mats, it comes with the pictures only and the words only, use it either way. This is my example. I used the picture quilt and cut all the words to do the match. Students will place the preposition word on each picture and say the sentence: The dog is between the dohouse and the ball.

Or use the quilts as cards to match and check the understanding of the new language.

Use the picture cards to play with the puzzle templates. This game will help your students understand the sentence structure, word order and the grammatical rule for the use of prepostions.

A few worksheets to practice writing and understanding sentences with prepositions. Students will show that they are able to comprehend the prepositions effectively.

This is a reading comprehension worksheet that can be easily assigned as independent tasks, promoting self-directed learning to reinforce their reading skills

The worksheets can be used as a review for the students to check the understanding of the prepositions and for you to identify if the learner needs more support.

This resource is also available separately or in a bundle, here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Prepositions-Bundle-Hands-On-ESL-Activities-for-Elementary-ELLs-13387265

 

This resource has more to check, go to this blog post:    https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/01/pets-unit-books-for-elementary-ell.html 

I do have another blog for Kindergarten English Language Learners with more resources for the pet unit. Click here:  www.eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com