Simple Present Tense and the Days of the Week

Find the Simple present tense and days of the week resource here:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Simple-Present-Tense-and-the-Days-of-the-Week-5573405 and save time by just printing and you are ready to go. This blog post provides suggestions to create effective learning of the unit.

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Review the days of the week using the cards. They come in different size.

Use the flashcards to introduce and practice the Grammar Tense.

Place the days of the week on the board. Introduce each verb flashcard and place it under a day of the week and say a sentence.                                   Teacher: Tom cooks on Monday.  Or  Teacher: Tom cooks on Mondays.

I want to state that checking on several book series there are both ways, use the one that suits your curriculum.

Write or circle the letter S of the verb. Write in a different color the word ON.  Have the students try to say a sentence for each day of the week.

VIDEO:

Introduce more grammar points using the cards.

I made a letter S on a stick. I cut the biggest “S” I found in an old magazine a glued it onto a craft stick. Use it to introduce or to remind students to use the 3^rd person singular S.

I am making the cards a little smaller for you to use for distance learning and on a small board. 

I glued a craft stick behind each one.

Here a video on how to use them to teach online.

Simple present and the days of the week Worksheets!

They will become handy for fast finishers.

  

 

A printable book for Simple present and the days of the week  

There is a small text on each page and there are  pictures and days of the week to glue on the correct page. Take a look at the video. 

Simple present tense Puzzle. Many students don’t even know how to relate with puzzle. This is an opportunity to create some puzzles. I added a blank puzzle for students to create their own puzzles to exchange with other students.

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Adjectives and Face for ESL

Link to the resource here for your lesson planning :

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

or, It is available here: 

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                         Here are 28 face cards for description.

An example on how to use them for speaking.

Teacher: What number is this ?

Student: Three.

Teacher: Who is she ?

Student: Ann.

Teacher: What color is her hair ?

Student: orange.

Teacher: What color are her eyes ?

Student: green.

Teacher: Ann has orange hair and green eyes.

Students: Sig has brown hair and brown eyes.

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.

Place the people flashcards on a board. Have the students sort the flashcards into hair color, length and type of hair. Use this opportunity to introduce two more adjectives: handsome for men and pretty for women. 

The students can describe each flashcard after downloading them on the tablet or any other electronic device. Watch the video:

Play Who am I ? Game.

Student 1: Is it a man or a woman?

Teacher: It’s a man.

Student 1: Does he have black hair?

Teacher: No, he doesn’t.

Student 1: Does he have short hair?

Teacher: Yes, he does.

Student 1: Is it C3?

Teacher: Yes, it is!  

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.

            Scrabble. Have the students make a scrabble puzzle of the adjective words.

                             

                              Just a few more flashcards: happy-sad, young-old.

Check an old blog post related to this resource for more ideas and activities for this same resource. LINK: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2015/10/adjectives-for-elementary-ell.html

                          

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Adjectives for EFL Students part 2

LINK to the Adjectives for Elementary ESL Resource:    https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Adjectives-for-Elementary-ELL-2150071

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As a warm up, ask questions using the cutouts. The cutouts can be held in your hand or pin them to a corkboard or to a small board.

Teacher: What is this ?

Students: It’s a car.

Teacher: What color is the car ?

Students: It’s red.

Teacher: Is it dirty or clean ?

Students: It’s dirty.

Repeat with the other car.

Place more cutouts on the board. Point to a cutout and say the adjective and model a sentence. Then, have the class say the opposite adjective and a similar sentence.

Teacher: small. It’s a small tree.

Students: big. It’s a big tree.

Repeat with the other cutouts.

Ask more questions for happy and sad and for new and old.

Teacher: Who is sad?

Students: He is sad. A students comes up and points to the cutout and answers the question.

Teacher: Which car is new?

Students: The pink car.

Teacher: Which car is old?

Students: The red car.

                                   Hot and cold examples for food.

 Hand in all the cutouts to random students in the class. Call out a cutout and that student stands up and shows it to class and repeats the sentence.

Teacher: Sad man. Show me a sad man.

        Use the game cards from last blog post to play concentration game.

                                                    3 worksheets.

                                               More flashcards.

Watch the video on how to use the flashcards:up, down, left, right.

A sentence association game, always a favorite.

Check the other blog post related to the same resource:

 LINK: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2015/10/adjectives-for-elementary-ell.html

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Adjectives for EFL Students

Here is an update on the Adjectives Flashcards, there are more than 100.  Link to the resource:

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The adjective flashcards are here to promote the use of natural language.

Place this adjective flashcard on the board. 

Ask questions to develop the oral and listening skills.

Teacher: Look at this man. He is tall. (write the word tall in white)

Look at this man. He is short. (write the word short in white)

Do the same with thin and fat but with a yellow chalk. Assign a name to each man. Make sentences.

Teacher: Pedro is tall and thin. Eddy is fat and short.

Have the class pick two students to make more sentences similar to the example.

Here we have happy and sad flashcards. Do the same.

Teacher: Who is this?

Student: He is Danny.

Teacher: Danny is happy.

Teacher: Who is this?

Student: He is Joe.

Teacher: Joe is sad.

Have two students come to the front and act as a happy and sad. The class has to make more sentences. 

Introduce new and old with the flashcards. Show students the difference that these words are used for things. Point to the first car.

Teacher: What is this?

Student: It is a car.

Teacher: It is a new car.

Teacher: What is this?

Student: It is orange.

Let’s go with clean and dirty flashcards.

Teacher: What are these?

Student: They are pants.

Teacher: They are clean pants.

Teacher: They are dirty pants. Point to the dirt spots.

Have the students walk around and find examples with more clothing items and say the corresponding sentence.

I can’t miss, big and small.

Teacher: What is this?

Student: It is a backpack.

Teacher: It is a big backpack. And this?

Student: It is a small backpack.

There is a game I found called Grumpy Grandpa in this book.

I adapted it and made my own version.

It is a good idea to have the students get familiar with the cards by matching them on the table first.

This 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 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.Watch the video to see how the game is played. I made my girls play to test the game.

Since many of you are doing distance teaching these days, use the game cards to introduce the new vocabulary, they are small enough to manage through the small screen. Watch the video, I did some examples with my girls.

                                              More examples: 

Check the other blog posts for the same resource:

 LINK: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2015/10/adjectives-for-elementary-ell.html

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