Frog and Can as an Ability

 This resource (Frog & “Can” Abilities – ESL Flashcards, Worksheets & Games for Kids)  is part of Can as an Ability for Elementary ESL at this link, ready to download: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Can-as-an-Ability-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4299251

Students will  learn and practice the simple and essential structure:

"Subject + can + verb". (e.g., The frog can jump.)  The resource Includes visual (flashcards), kinesthetic (miming, spinner games), and written (worksheets) activities. It supports diverse learners, including visual and hands-on learners and  ideal for elementary ESL/ELL classes practicing abilities and verbs.

Frog-verb flashcards

Show any flashcard of the frog and have the students do the action as they shout out the word. This is a way to have the students become familiar with the verbs.  Use for drill & review and kinesthetic learning.  

Ask questions with Can? Take out a flashcard showing the frog's abilities  and ask: Can you play baseball?
All the students that can play baseball will stand up and do the action, saying: Yes, I can.
The other will stand up and say: No, I can’t.
Continue with more flashcards and turn grammar into communicative practice — not just drills   .

Small cards Can/Can't Sorting Game. Use the bags from the complete resource labeled boxes or mats: "can" and "can't."

Students pick a frog card, say or decide the action (e.g., "jump," "swim"), and place it under the correct label.  The decision is based on real frogs: "Can a frog sing?" → "No, it can't!"

Great for controlled practice.  

use these for speaking activities:

Small cards for Writing. Provide a sentence frame such as "The frog can play the piano."

Students draw a card and complete the sentence on their notebook using the action shown.

Print and hand in a chart to each student or pair of students. Say what the frog can do and students will check mark as a listening activity. Then, have the students check mark with another color what they can do and mark with an x what they can’t do.  They can write sentences about the chart.

Use the colored version students find the matching pairs, playing memory. They can play in pairs with two printables. They cut and shuffle the cards. Then, they place the cards facedown on a table or desk. The first students will flip over two cards, if they match they have to say the sentence using can. If the cards don’t match, they can take another turn.

Also sort the cards from the colored version, into sports, music and other verbs.

Worksheet. use can and can’t for ability. Writing sentences like “The frog can jump.” reinforces correct word order and sentence structure.

This writing sheet helps to build simple sentences and reinforce spelling, structure and writing skills.  

Some students learn best through visual worksheet and written input.

Writing worksheets: sentences using “can / can’t”.    

You can use worksheets to check understanding by writing questions.

A Cut-&-Paste sentence association worksheet setfor  matching verbs with pictures.  

Play like this:

Worksheets give students a chance to practice alone, helping build confidence and independence in using English.

Help students become familiar with the abilities vocabulary. Spread out both mats with the frog pictures. Students take turns drawing a verb card, then race to find the matching frog action picture on the mat. Say the sentence out loud: The frog can jump. Use a timer for added excitement.

Play with Mixed-level classes and pair stronger students with weaker. 

Use the mat and the spelling Bingo template to play another game. Students write an assigned number of verbs or sentences from the mats onto the template. Then, use the verb cards as calling cards, the first students to cross all the verbs wins. Have the learners save the template to play on any other class.

There is another set of mats, check the blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/06/can-as-ability-games.html

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Use the two fly swatter templates labeled "can" and "verb" to help young learners visually and physically interact with sentence structure, especially for “can” sentences (e.g., The frog can play baseball.).

Students begin to recognize and internalize the correct pattern on the flashcards or small cards.

Frog Can board game. There are two paths, students will choose just one. Players roll a die and move. Land on a space and say a sentence using CAN: The frog can play the guitar!

Add a challenge-if correct, move forward 1 extra space.

Spinners modal verbs are perfect for movement, randomness, and speaking practice. Students spin the frog spinner. Whatever action it lands on (e.g., jump), they say:“The frog can write.”

Using small action verb cards is a fun and effective way to practice can and can’t for ability with elementary English language learners. These interactive activities encourage speaking, reinforce grammar patterns, and help students gain confidence using English.  Go to this blog post:
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Printable Adjectives Games for ESL

 The Printable Adjectives Games for ESL / ELL Kids – Flashcards, Matching & Vocabulary Practice is included in the complete  Adjectives resource, here to download: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Adjectives-for-Elementary-ELL-2150071

Play is essential for language learning—especially for elementary English language learners. Find engaging printable adjectives games for elementary ESL/ELL learners — flashcards, matching cards, memory & spelling games included.  

Printable Matching cards game. It is a good idea to have the students get familiar with the cards by matching them on the table first. They see the word and picture together, helping them understand and remember the meaning naturally.

This adjectives vocabulary 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.

The adjective game starts as students make pairs that they already have in their own cards and lay them on the table as they name the adjectives. The players make sure that the pairs are right.

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.

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Play Memory Match (Concentration). Place picture cards and word cards face down. Students take turns flipping two at a time to find a match. Then, Say the adjective when a match is found.

Use the matching cards for speaking!

A sentence association game that is always a favorite. It builds Sentence Structure Awareness.

Students learn how to put adjectives into simple sentence patterns. By matching adjective words to pictures and sentence parts, students become more confident using new vocabulary in real language. Lay out sentence cards and picture cards. Students match the correct sentence to the correct picture.

This spelling scrabble-style activity is a tactile and engaging way for students to practice spelling and recognizing adjective words—a key skill for building both vocabulary and reading confidence. Students use the tiles to build the word.

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Adjectives Craft Stick Puppets Sorting

Adjectives Craft-Stick Puppets Sorting – ESL/ELL Printable Adjectives Activity Pack is also included in the complete resource, here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Adjectives-for-Elementary-ELL-2150071

This Adjectives Craft-Stick Puppets Sorting Pack gives students a creative way to learn describing words: they cut, glue, sort, and use their own puppet characters to practise vocabulary, speaking, and writing. Perfect for centers, class games, or vocabulary review.

Picture and adjective word cards for puppet creation. When kids cut, glue, label, and move their puppets, they’re actively connecting the word to the concept. I cut the toilet paper tubes in half and tapes a classification word.  I cut all the pictures and glued each one on a craft stick and also glued the word. But, you can glue only the picture and have the students find the word.

Sorting puppets by adjectives helps learners organize new vocabulary into categories (e.g., feelings, condition, weather, age, size, etc.). This boosts comprehension and prepares them for sentence building later.

Students can use their puppets to describe: “Coffee is hot., The ice cream is cold.”

These puppets are reusable and great for memory games by matching the word to the cutout.

Speaking Prompts. Students pick a puppet and describe it out loud using full sentences: “This is Sarah. She has gray hair She is old.”

Writing Activity. Students choose a puppet and write a short description using adjectives.

“This is Max. He is rich. He has short black hair and black eyes.”

Use the puppets for small group adjective practice to write a short story: There are two boxes, one is full, one is empty. There is an empty brown box and full white box. I like the full box, I don’t like the empty box.

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Adjectives for Face and People -ELL

 Adjectives for Face & People — ESL / EFL Flashcards + Games  is also included in the complete resource, ready to download here: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Adjectives-for-Elementary-ELL-2150071

Teach physical appearance adjectives to elementary ELL students with these printable face-cards and interactive games. The adjectives small cards take up little space and can be grouped in envelopes, zip bags, or boxes by theme or adjective category. They are great for fast-paced games, pair work, or last-minute review.   Easy to pull out for warm-ups, transitions, or group stations. 

Describe the Face! – 26 Face Cards for Teaching Physical Appearance Adjectives.

This is a set of 26 face cards for practicing adjectives related to hair, eyes.

Each card has a name and a number for identification and game purposes.

These cards give learners a real reason to speak and are great for adjective + noun sentence structure practice.

Teacher: Mandy has long straight red hair and brown eyes.

Develop speaking, listening, and reading skills. Reinforce adjective + noun and "has/has got" grammar structures. Describe and Find

Teacher: he has red hair and blue eyes!

Students: He is number 6. He is Tim!

Play Guess Who?  (Yes/No questions). Place all the cards on the board. A student can give clues while classmates ask yes/no questions to identify the character.

"Is it a boy?" "Does he have curly hair?"

Place these two flashcards on a small board to present the order of the adjectives to describe the hair. Use a different marker or chalk for each set of words. Point to both hair and ask questions.

Teacher: Look at Kelly. What color is her hair?

Student: black. The teacher writes the word black. Do the same for Felicia.

Teacher: Look at Felicia. Her hair is long. The teacher writes the word long and trace her long hair. Do the same for Kelly.

Teacher: Look at Kelly. Her hair is curly. The teacher writes the word curly and trace her curly hair. Do the same for Felicia.

Describe Kelly’s hair and then have the students describe Felicia’s. Remember the order: length, type of hair, color.

Teacher: Kelly has short curly black hair.

Teacher: Felicia has long straight blonde hair.

Graph the students in class.

Have the students ask questions to their classmates using the card.

Then make a big graph on the board using the flashcards.

Here are flashcards with whole body. Play a Sorting Game with the categories of hair color, length, type.

Students sort the cards by hair color, hair length, and hair type.

Play Adjective Hunt.  Give students a list of people from the grid. They must find and point to cards that match each one.

"Find someone with long green hair."

Student: That’s A5

 Choose and write. Students choose a card and write a short description. Then, one student reads a description aloud. Others must guess the name or number from the card. Great for listening practice.

Then, have the students sort those cards according to the hair description.

Bingo or Matching. Have the students sort the cards into tall or short people. Then, students write 8 numbers of people on their bingo board on their notebooks.

Call out traits (He is fat. He has black hair.) and have students find matching cards on their Bingo grid or mat.

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