Zoo animals Move Flashcards.

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL. Click here:

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Teach your learners about how the zoo animals move and review the vocabulary related to the locomotion expanding their language skills.

Perfect for introducing or reviewing the verbs. Write a verb under each flashcard to show what each zoo animal is moving. Encourage the ELLs to observe and describe how the animals move in each flashcard.

Then, place two flashcards on the board. Ask the students what the animals are doing. Write the verb and ask questions.
Teacher: Can the bear climb trees?
Students: Yes, it can.
Teacher: Can the elephant climb trees?
Students: No, it can´t.

Sort what the animals can do using the flashcards: walk. Gorilla, monkey, hippo and ostrich!

Animals have same abilities. Sort them out.
Teacher: Which animals can climb?
Students: the monkey, the bear.

Some zoo animals can fly. Write the words can fly and have the students guess which animals can do the action, as they do it themselves in a mime.

Or create a sorting table on the board and students can come up t place the flashcards to the corresponding verb.

Integrate the animal movement with the physical education activities. Have the students imitate the movement of the animals on each card. Use my movement verb table.

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The dog and the Prepositions for Elementary ELL

 This resource is included in the Pets Unit for Elementary ELL- Starters and it is ALSO available as an individual resource here: 

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Teaching the Prepositions of location are essential in constructing longer sentences to express the relationship between objects and the pets, in this case I focused on the dogs. Proficiency in prepositions facilitates language development.

Start by printing your dog and the prepositions flashcards to provide clarity to describe spatial relationship with precision using the dog as the center of the activity.

Teacher: The dog is on the bed.

There is a set of cutouts in color and b/w to aid the comprehension of the prepositions. They work well for listening and speaking activities. Have your set ready and the students will create their own by coloring the cutouts and adding an opened clip behind each cutout to have them stand.

Learners will understand instructions and use the cutouts to physically show what was said.

Teacher: The dog is next to the doghouse.

Students can give directions for the class to perform.

Print the quilt mats, it comes with the pictures only and the words only, use it either way. This is my example. I used the picture quilt and cut all the words to do the match. Students will place the preposition word on each picture and say the sentence: The dog is between the dohouse and the ball.

Or use the quilts as cards to match and check the understanding of the new language.

Use the picture cards to play with the puzzle templates. This game will help your students understand the sentence structure, word order and the grammatical rule for the use of prepostions.

A few worksheets to practice writing and understanding sentences with prepositions. Students will show that they are able to comprehend the prepositions effectively.

This is a reading comprehension worksheet that can be easily assigned as independent tasks, promoting self-directed learning to reinforce their reading skills

The worksheets can be used as a review for the students to check the understanding of the prepositions and for you to identify if the learner needs more support.

There is more for the pets unit in the blog:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/01/pets-unit-flashcards-for-elementary-ell.html

I do have another blog for Kindergarten English Language Learners with more resources for the pet unit. Click here:  www.eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com

Zoo animals have a body

 This resource is included in the Zoo Animals for EFL at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Zoo-Animals-Flashcards-for-EFL-3611842

Place a zoo animal flashcard on the board and write the parts of the body.
Hand in more flashcards and have the students do the same using your model.
Have the students say which body parts are similar to a person and which are different.
Teacher: Which body parts are similar to ours?
Students: eye, nose, mouth, ear, leg!
Teacher: Which body parts are different to ours?
Students: whiskers, fur, paw, tail!

Then place 2 flashcards, write the body parts, the similar ones in one color and the different ones in another. Talk about the difference between the animals. I suggest you read a little before doing this and use my research table and complete it even more.
Teacher: Which body parts are the same?
Students: head, eye, ears, legs, feet, tail, claws!
Teacher: yes! But, Which head is bigger?
Students: The bear´s head is bigger.
Teacher: Which body parts are different?
Students: fur, feathers, snout, beak!
Teacher: yes! But, Which animal has fur?
Students: The bear has fur.
And continue with more questions!

Write body parts words and have the students sort the zoo animal flashcards by their characteristics, such as tails, beak, horn, stripes, scales.
Animals have similar and different body parts. Have the students sort out the flashcards depending on a body part.
Teacher: Which animals have tails?
Students: Lions, monkeys, kangaroo!
 

Sort the animals by the tail using the adjectives long and short to describe the tail of the animals: The monkey has a long tail. The penguin has a short tail.

Sort the zoo animals by the length of the arms.

Sort the zoo animals by the size of the ears.

Draw a Venn Diagram on the board, have the students understand what it is for. Compare any two animals that you want. I made an example. Students should give you details of what they observe that are different between them and what is the same or common.

Place the animal flashcards on the board in random order. Have the students order them by size.
Ask questions:
Teacher: Which is the first animal?
Students: The elephant.
Teacher: Which is the second animal?
Students: The giraffe.
Teacher: Which animal comes next?
Students: The camel.

Cut the animal flashcards in 2 or in 4.  I made these without borders or words. Hand them out randomly. Have the students stand up and walk around asking the classmates for the match to complete the card.

Student: Do you have the camel ?

Cut the body parts in each animal flashcard.

Set up a table on the board with only the body part word. Have the students come up and place each body part under each word.

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Zoo animals Flashcards for Elementary English Language Learners

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Teaching the zoo unit provides a real-world context that is relevant to children's lives. The theme is across the science subjects. Many students might have been to a zoo and it will be fun to know their experiences.

Write the word zoo on the board and ask students the name of zoo animals they know. Start putting them on the board as they say the word as in a mind map.

Teacher: There is a bear in the zoo.

Have students make similar sentences.

Model demonstrative sentences using the zoo animals for describing.

Teacher: This is an elephant. It’s gray.

Students: This is a lion. It’s brown.

Place the flashcards on the board and write a number next to it. Ask questions: What is number 2?
Students: It’s a monkey!
Teacher: What color is number three?
Students: orange!
Teacher: is number five an elephant?
Students: Yes, it is.
Teacher: is number two a bear?
Students: No, it isn’t. It’s a, monkey.

 

 activity: Run to the card. Place all the flashcards on the board in random order and disorganized. Divide the class into two or more teams. Call out an animal. The first student to touch with a pencil or pen the correct one wins a point for the team.

activity: Listen and stand up! Distribute all the flashcards to all the students, you can even give out more than one. Call out an animal and the student who has it must stand up and say the word. That student 
can´t sit down again. Play until there is one student left, who is the winner.

Animals come in groups and use it for reviewing plurals.  Write a number next to each flashcard. Ask questions: Look at flashcard number 2. What are they?
Students: They’re kangaroos!
Look at flashcard number 3. Are they lions?
Students: Yes, they are.
Look at flashcard number 4. Are they zebras?
Students: No, they aren’t.

Play Yes or No! Print and have ready the puppets. One per group or for each child. Students can also make their own puppets by gluing the cards onto wooden sticks of your preference.

You can ask questions: Is this a penguin?

 and the students will show the corresponding card puppet and say: 

Yes, it is !

As a variation, say statements like: This is a green penguin!

Use the puppets with any unit or theme.

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Board games for Elementary English Language Learners

 Find a themed game board in each unit for teaching elementary English language learners. This kind of games are very engaging and interactive for your students. You can adapt all the games to suit your players to encourage participation, right here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Board-games-for-Elementary-English-Language-Learners-11333780

Is this something that you would include in your lesson plan? Maybe not? Would like to? Well, read and see if you are up for it.

Use the board games as a review of the new vocabulary of the unit. It is a fun repetition of the words. The markers are also included with each board game. So, just grab the dice. Each space has a color. Players have to move along the path. When they land on a space, they have to say the name of that color and show an item in that color.

Create a motivated and positive classroom atmosphere, where students know that there will be an enjoyable learning game to wrap up the class. Players will describe the colors of the space they landed on besides the number: It’s an orange twelve.

Games help with memory skills that are crucial for English language retention. That’s another reason for printing and having the games ready to play. The objective of the game is to navigate through the various spaces on the game board, learning and practicing vocabulary related to different facial features.

Board games are a very informal way of assessing your student’s language proficiency in communicating. Are they using the language enough? Are they struggling to move along the board?

Players will navigate through the various spaces on the game board, answering questions related to family members with the cards in the game, light or dark green.

Another House unit activiti with a board game.Players will move their family members game pieces by correctly identifying the rooms of the house. The first player to reach the finish line wins.

Add a twist to the pet unit board game, but it works with any other theme. Players have to describe the pet they landed on in order to take that pet into their pet shop.

Students can do more than just identifying the word but saying a phrase or complete sentence in order to get the food card. The more food cards a player has, he/she is the winner.

Players move their game pieces around the Toyland game board, by completing challenges such as miming how to play with the toys they land on.

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