Adjectives for EFL Students

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

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

OR You can find it here: 

http://kinder-bilingue.myshopify.com/products/adjectives-for-elementary-ell

                                             

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

Your ideas and feedback allow me to help you. 

Town, Community Helper and Transportation for ESL Part 2

                          This is the blog post for part 1.

https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2018/03/town-and-community-helpers-plus.html    Either go to the post or watch the video:

Here is the link to the complete product:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Town-and-Community-Helpers-plus-transportation-themes-for-the-ESL-learner-3735921

You can also find the resource here: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/town-and-community-helpers-plus-transportation-themes-for-the-esl-learner?variant=36958760304804

                 I added a board game. I printed it on a letter size paper. 

                                           Watch the video.

All the town items are in a road circuit. This game will not need a die. Each student will pick a transportation marker, which I taped an opened clip behind the card. The first student picks a card from the pile and reads the questions. Then, moves the transportation marker to the town place and puts the card on it. If the student knows the answer can place the card, if not, that student can’t place the card. The winner is the student that places the most cards on the road. Watch the video:

                                         

 A teacher that bought this product said that the cards were too small. I appreciate when teachers say something to improve. I made the cards a little bigger and they work well for sorting.  The cards can be used for distance teaching by placing a craft stick behind each one and turned into flashcards. The actual flashcards that come in the product are classroom size.

It can be sorted on a table or use the pocket chart. Have the students make sentences.

Teacher: The zoo keepers are at the zoo. They have a jeep.

Just 4 Worksheets for sorting the town places, the community helpers or jobs and transportation. 

First, have the students color the worksheets as you dictate each one, or even better have the students dictate how to color each one. Then, students write the word for each item in all the worksheets.

Teacher: The post office is purple.

Have the students cut all the cards from the worksheets. There are many things that you can do with them. I just thought of sorting.

Students can write sentences on their notebooks.

 

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School Unit for Elementary English Language Learners

 LINK to the FREE School Unit resource for Elementary English Language Learners: 

  https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/school-theme-for-elementary-esl?variant=37429003223204

This resource comes with 24 small School Unit flashcards. Use them to have your students identify the school supplies.

Here are some Flashcards Ideas to introduce or review the classroom or school objects vocabulary.

1. Who has it ?  Game : pass out all the school flashcards to some students in the class. Call out a word that is on a card. The student with that card has to stand up, show the card and say the word. Continue with all the playing cards.

2.  YES or NO puppets: Make the puppets by printing the template onto cardboard and gluing a craft stick behind each puppet.

Hold up a school flashcard and ask: Is it a (table) ?

Prompt the students to nod(YES) or shake(NO) their heads and answer YES or NO.  And you can also use the YES and NO puppet.

If the answer is YES, have them repeat: Yes, It´s a pen.(Show the yes puppet)

If the answer is NO, have them repeat NO, it isn´t a table. It's a crayon. (Show the NO puppet)

3. Review or Evaluation:

Place on the board  or table a flashcard. Say a word or sentence. Have the child point to the flashcard. 

Teacher: eraser. It´s an eraser.

Student:( Points) eraser.

Put a different pair of flashcards and repeat.

Teacher: board. It´s a board.

Student:( Points) board.

Teacher: Very Good.

The prize or reward for your students. Print and tape a safety pin behind each prize. As each student masters the flashcards give the prize.

4. Another Game: Display all the flashcards with a number under each one. The teacher or the student names a flashcard in a random order and the class says the number . Then say a number  and the class says the flashcard word or a sentence: The scissors are red.

Bingo Game: 

Distribute the blank bingo grid to each student. Have the students fill in 7 school words. Draw a random card and call it out so that the student can look for the word in their bingo grid and cross it off. When a student  has  crossed out all the words , he or she calls out  BINGO !  

Also make your call out Bingo folder. I made two sets, a black and white one and a colored version. Print the black and white small cards  onto colored  paper and the colored set onto white paper. As you call out the words just place them on the folder where they belong. Using this system children can play  in small groups.

 School theme book:

Give students the chance to read. Read to them or have them read after they know the vocabulary words. This is a decodable book that builds on previously taught words, helping students gain confidence and fluency. You can conduct guided reading so students can follow along, make as many copies as needed, maybe one for 2 students. Have students reread with their partner.  It can be used on electronics as a pdf file.

               

           There is another book.

School unit Task cards: make the  copies need. Laminate for further use. Display a set of cards to each group of 4 or 6 students. 

Students select their task card and write the answer in their notebook in the order of their preference.

This is a school unit memory matching game. It can be used to assess the students by connecting the cards. Print the sets of cards, one with pictures and another with the names of the school objects. Divide the class into groups of no more than 4. Hand each group a set of cards. Have the students spread the cards facing up on the table and take turns connecting the corresponding names and pictures. The student who correctly connects the most pairs of cards wins. 

 school unit Pocket charts: so many uses in the classroom, get one because I´ll be posting many ideas. This is a simple matching the phrase to the picture. After they finish students can write all phrases in their notebooks.

Let’s start by introducing the Prepositions Flashcards.

Here are some examples on how to use the flashcards to introduce the grammar structures: 

 

  I prepared a School unit sentence association game. I did it in a different way this time. I placed the pictures pages in a clear sheet and then cut all the sentences into cards. The aim of the game is to match the sentence card to each picture.

Watch the video on how to use the game. The game can be done placing the sentences in the clear sheets and the cards will be the pictures.

The school unit cutouts! Now when distance learning is on demand, I researched that most teachers use cutouts. I love cutouts. I started using them when teaching with the book Sprinkles. The cutouts can be used for many things.

The cutouts can be used on the board. I made two examples. But the cutouts are great for using them within your lesson plan.

Give the students the cutouts and have them place them where they want and say a sentence. It a nice speaking activity. My children did it for me, I did not make any corrections. Watch the video.

Here is the picture of the end of the activity, I had to trim the video. Have the students draw their own picture inspired on the cutouts activity. Then, write a description.

Sometimes holding the cutouts with your hand might be complicated if you are doing distance learning. I glued a craft stick behind each cutout and made a short VIDEO demonstration on how to teach using the cutouts. Obviously, have the students repeat after you. Then, ask questions as you put up the cutouts.

 Make a school unit book. The students read the sentences and complete the book by gluing the school items where they belong.

Watch the video and see how I put it together. Have the students read the book using a pointer:

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