Birthday Unit Flashcards for Elementary ELLs

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The birthday unit is important to introduce students to essential vocabulary related to birthdays. This vocabulary is used in everyday conversations.

Print the flashcards to help your students associate the vocabulary with visual images, making it easier for them to remember new vocabulary.

Have the students identify the party objects using the flashcards: hat, balloon, cake, presents, card, candle.

Ask students: What can you see?

Students: I see a present.

Reviewing colors helps reinforce color vocabulary. Place two flashcards and ask: What color is this balloon?

Students: It’s orange!

Focus on colors to encourage the students to observe and describe objects in greater detail: What color are the candles?
Students: blue, purple, green!

Show a single flashcard with one present and say, “This is a present. It is yellow.” Then, show a flashcard with several presents and say, “They are presents. They are green and blue.”

Sorting the birthday objects.

Create two columns on the board labeled “It is” and “They are”. Show a flashcard and ask students to decide if it goes under “It is” or “They are.” Place the card in the correct column and have students say the corresponding sentence: It’s a card.

Reinforce that "there is" is used with singular nouns (one object), while "there are" is used with plural nouns (more than one object).

Teacher: "There is one cake". "There are five balloons."

Incorporate the numbers 1 to 10 using the flashcards. Birthdays often involve talking about age, and students need to be comfortable with numbers to express how old they are or how old someone else is.

Birthdays often involve counting items like candles on a cake, balloons, or gifts. Have the students accurately count and talk about these items using the flashcards.

Teachers: How cupcakes are there?

Students: One, two, three, for, five! Five cupcakes.

Ask and answer about age.

Start by teaching the basic question structure: “How old are you?

Show a birthday flashcard with a picture of a boy or girl with a number corresponding to the age and ask students: How old is he?

Students: He’s eight!

Introduce new structures: Today is Anna’s Birthday. She’s nine years old.

Have the students say more sentences using the rest of the flashcards.

To express likes and dislikes.
Teacher: I like cake! I don’t like balloons!
Make an emphasis on the final s.
Ask your students about their preferences and place that flashcard on the board and you can even graph the party objects.

People do different actions in a party. Use any tense that you want.

Teacher: What is he doing?
Students: He is opening a present.

Teach the phrase “Whose birthday is it?” by modeling it several times. Place several flashcards on the board and ask, "Whose birthday is it?"

Students: "It's Ann's birthday."

Explain the ‘s to indicate possession. Make stick puppets ‘s to make it easier for the students to grasp the rule.

Talk about the location of objects.
Use the flashcards to demonstrate prepositions like "in front of," "behind," "next to," "on," and "under":
Prepare the cutouts to place the candle flashcard in different positions relative to the cupcake flashcard. Show each position flashcard and then the students will repeat the location using the cutouts.
Teacher: "The candle is on the cupcake."
Invite students to prepare their own cutouts using the template provided and move the cutouts themselves, using the correct prepositions in sentences.

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Writing the production part of the lesson plan to teach English Language Learners

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The "production" part of a lesson plan," is where students actively use the language skills or concepts they've been learning during the lesson. The learners (ELLs) will perform tasks in English.

What to plan?

 Look for:

·      practical and communicative Student-Centered Activities that makes the learning style a priority.

Task-Based Practice such as role-plays using finger puppets. This helps students practice speaking in a low-pressure environment.

Show and tell activities.

Interactive Games where students must use the target language creating a dynamic class where students want to be in.

I highly plan games for this stage of the lesson plan. When students are having fun, they're more motivated to use the language actively. You can make sure that even the shy students will be to participate reducing anxiety. 

Games are there to apply what they've learned in meaningful ways. Playing games promote critical thinking and language use simultaneously. The printable games allow students to practice the same language structures multiple times in varied and interesting ways, reinforcing learning without feeling repetitive. They usually want play them over and over again.Select the games to cater to the different learning styles that you have in a class. 

Some ideas :

Matching Games. Use cards for the students to match the picture with the correct word. The focus is on vocabulary and comprehension.

Memory (Concentration) is another game for trying to find a matching pair. This helps with vocabulary retention.

Print the bingo templates with pictures related to the lesson’s theme. Call out the words or show pictures, and students mark the correct item on their cards. Great for reinforcing vocabulary and listening skills.

Dominoes where students play by matching pictures to words or words to words.

Themed Board Games. As students land on different spaces, they might have to name the image, or say a complete a sentence.

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Present Continuous Book for Elementary English Language Learners

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This printable book comes with specific present continuous language, making the content more engaging and relevant. By reading repeatedly it will improve their comprehension and fluency over time. Students can review the verbs name vocabulary in a different context, which aids in retention.

Find activities within the printable book containing the verb name, such as completing sentences or creating a text for each page which makes learning more interactive and enjoyable for young learners. Then, ELLs have to cut each page, punch the hole and use a book ring to put the book together.

Send the book home. Students will practice reading with their families.

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Present Continuous Games for Elementary English Language Learners

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Use the Printable games to reinforce the present continuous tense in a dynamic way. Students can repeatedly use the present continuous reinforcing their understanding. Many games involve speaking, listening, and interacting with others, which helps ELLs practice the present continuous in a communicative way.

 

This is a classic Bingo game that comes with 15 cards for the students to listen carefully to the sentences describing ongoing actions in the present continuous tense such as "She is jumping,".  They will have to recognize the tense when spoken. To mark their Bingo cards correctly, students need to identify the correct picture. There is a teacher’s mat for you place the calling cards as you say the tense sentence. You can also use this game for other tenses since it is in the base form of the verb.

This Domino game combines pictures and words. This  game appeals to both visual and linguistic learners. As an activity, have your students practice the action-related vocabulary (e.g., "running," "eating," "dancing") as they match the picture with the correct word.

Grab a die and give it the players to play the board game. They roll a dice to determine how many spaces to move forward.  There are four challenge cards (each with a corresponding color on the path) where students have to answer a question "What are you doing?"—The player answers, "I am dancing". Each player chooses a game piece to move along the board.  I used fun foam pieces that I had left behind. The goal is to reach the end of the board first and get the most points. On my example: I landed on a dark blue space, answered correctly and won 4 points and got the corresponding token.

Letter tiles work well for spelling and sentence construction skill.  Use the sets of letter tiles with enough letters to form words and then write sentences later on their notebook. Use any of the cards from any of the games with the base verbs written on them to aid in spelling.

The matching picture and word mat is an activity useful for visual learners and younger students.  they take turns selecting a word and then finding the corresponding picture that matches the action in the picture.  Once they find a match, they can place the word and say a sentence in the present continuous reinforcing their speaking skills. Use this game with any other tense later on.

Solve the puzzle set as you scatter the pieces on a table or the floor. Make sure that the pieces are mixed up so that students need to think carefully about how to match them. This can be done individually or in small groups to match the verb to the picture in the present continuous tense.

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Writing the practice part of the lesson plan to teach English Language Learners

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After the a well done presentation of the new material, this is the next step: PRACTICE!

This is the moment to reinforce and apply the material presented. Use repetition of those concepts to help the students solidify the understanding.

Students will work on the new language using the workbook or worksheets providing different contexts  and multiple activities to engage and complete tasks.

Plan practice of the new concepts and language in which the students will use the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing on their own along with vocabulary and grammar.

Using the worksheets will allow the assessment of your students' understanding and progress. It also provides an opportunity to give immediate feedback, helping students correct errors and improve.

Include differentiated instruction to tailor to needs of your students in the sleection of the worksheets to hand in. Don’t skim on oportunities for the learners to practice.

The materials you can use for the practice part of a lesson plan to consolidate learning:

1. Visual Aids, such as the flashcards, small cards,Charts and Posters that you can make to display the new vocabulary, sentence structures, or grammar rules in your classroom for drilling purpose.

2. Workbook and/or Worksheets that includes: Matching Exercises,Fill-in-the-Blanks,Sentence Strips, substitution drills and more.

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