TESOL 19 Convention - the next day

Another day at the Convention. I am so happy to be there, I have enjoyed every single moment. I encourage you all to attend next year. It will be in Denver, USA.

The book exhibit is one of the places that is always full of people. I bought a book at the TESOL bookstore. They have books online at www.tesol.org/bookstore

One of the session that I attended today was presented by Teachers from Alianza Cultural Uruguay. They took the 6 principles from TESOL and used it in their English as a Foreign Language Context for Training and Hiring Teachers in Uruguay. Training from them is available on line (silvia.laborde@alianza.edu.uy). I suggest you contact them if you are interested.Great approach and interesting idea. Teachers can adapt  the 6 principles to their own teaching setting. The 6 principles book can be bought at the TESOL online bookstore from the link above.

The other session was about Translanguaging in Early Childhoos and Elementary.  Here is the concept.

This new pedagody is a new fresh look at students in the USA classrooms.

I will blog more about this in the future. I was really surprised to know about it.
The convention continues tomorrow!

TESOL Convention 19

Yesterday the Tesol 19 Convention started! I am at the beautiful Downtown Atlanta.

 The opening note was in charge of David Harrison. It was wonderful. He has written a book: The last Speaker.

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As for today I attended several meetings.The first one was the role that as ESL or EFL teachers have but we were not trained for and still manage to do. We serve as Teacher Leader in our school, we serve as Instructional Coach sometimes by providing professional support to our peers. We also serve as an administrator in our schools. Holistic changes have to be made. There are courses in the U.S.A to train on how to fill in all these roles.

I also went to the Poster session. Several were interesting for Preschool and Elementary EFL Teachers. I took a picture of them.
One was teaching using art.

Another one was presented by a Bolivian teacher.

Holidays as a Teaching Tool presented by a Mexican Teacher.

A very important one that we as teachers have be aware of that there are students suffering from anxiety and we do not even know.

The convention is focused on the 6 principles for teaching. Interesting enough to visit the website for more detailed information.https://www.tesol.org/the-6-principles/about

The last one was about adpating materials for the classroom. Many teachers use materials mainly textbooks that are imposed by the administration in their schools and maybe they are not the best for the specific students sitting in your classroom, so what should you do.Well, adapt! 

Tomorrow is another day full of sessions!

St. Patrick’s Day for Elementary ESL

Link to the St. patrick's Day resource: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-for-Elementary-ESL-4428537

I have always liked this Holiday. In the 90’s I was teaching after school ESL and this is an old picture of what we did with the children.

Now, let’s start with the resources that I have prepared.

Puppets. Make puppets with the clovers to review colors.

Teacher: What color is this?

Students: red!

Teacher: It’s a red clover.

Worksheets. Have the students complete their worksheets to review color words.
Then place the worksheet in a clear plastic sheet. Students can trace the words using whiteboard markers and then erase. Save for future worksheets.

I made these colored plates once. I just colored a paper plate in a different color to do sorting. I am recycling them to sort the clovers.

I love the scrabble letters that I made for a product months ago. I am putting them here, you can use them for every single lesson just for making words or for making a crossword.

Or use the color letters printables to make the color words.

Use the writing pad or notebook for writing the color words.

The bottle caps printable is free. I made it years ago and have used it a lot. Here is the link. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Bottle-Caps-2155938

More worksheets. Students color and trace the words in the worksheet. Then, cut and paste on their notebooks and write a sentence. 

Or the students can color and cut each item and glue them alphabetically.

Listen and color worksheet.

Teacher: Color their hats green, black and yellow.

Teacher: Color his shirt orange and her blouse orange.

Teacher: Color their shoes black.

Review colors and numbers at the same time. Say the color of the numbers in random order.

Teacher: Number seven is orange.

Then, have the students write the color and number words next to each picture.

They can cut each number and dictate the order to put them.

Teacher: six, ten, nine, seven.

I found these cute gnomes images and I had to create something and thought that it could fit for prepositions. Students can color them and make a gnome village per group. I used toilet paper rolls, paper towels rolls and carton eggs. I glued the gnomes onto craft sticks and then made a slit onto the carton egg and placed the gnomes and the rest of the pieces.

I used them for prepositions. Students listen and place the gnomes and other items as they listen or they can give the instructions and the other groups follow.

Teacher: The gnome is next to house number 1.

The gnome is behind house number 3.

The gnome is in front of house number 4.

The clover is behind the yellow house.

A craft. I grabbed a black plastic plate that I had around the house, cut the middle of the plate to make a wreath. I glued all the pieces.

Let’s dress the leprechaun. Dictate the color for each clothes piece.

That give directions for gluing them.

Teacher: Color the hat green and the belt is black with yellow.

Glue the socks on the leprechaun. 

More clothes and body.  Color the pictures and label the parts of the body and the clothing pieces.

And flashcards! Yes, again… use for many games for those dreaded 5 minutes left.

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Present Continuous Flashcards

This is part 1 using more than 200 flashcards for Speaking activities.
Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Present-Continuous-Flashcards-for-Elementary-ESL-4403402

Or here: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/present-continuous-flashcards-for-elementary-esl?variant=14561173012529

Watch the video of the complete resource:

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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