Picture Game for Young Learners

Guess the Picture

In my Hidden Images slides, click the blue squares to reveal an image. Students try to guess the image before all the squares disappear. This is a fun way to review vocabulary and motivate students.

 ***If you would like to change anything in the slides or the Translation document attached to it, just go to file and make a copy. That copy you will be able to edit as you like.
***Don't email me to request access to edit. I will need this copy to stay the same.

Here is the link to Hidden Images

To change the images, simply click on a square and move it to the side. Then select the image underneath and delete it. Next, place your desired image on the slide. Then go to the ARRANGE tab and click ORDER to place the image behind the squares. 

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Fast and Easy Lesson Planning for ESL Young Learners --FREE YL Lesson Plan

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Age: 6-7
Topic: Farm Animals

1st-Start the class: with "Old MacDonald" in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6HzoUcx3eo (during this students are writing down the date and/or get out settled in their seats with paper and pencil )

2nd-Warmer: Sing the days of the week with the Hello PPT (=a PowerPoint that goes over the days of the week and other quick review verbal exercises)

3rd-Game 1: Telling Timehttps://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/telling-the-time/

(Students shout out the correct option by saying A, B, or C. This is a game that covers a topic we have reviewed in the warmer.)

4th-Speaking 1: Video-Learn the Farm Animals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV8MSaYlSbc
(Have students listen and repeat. Ask what it is in their language. For older kids, you can have them write down the translation from English to their own language. Have students mimic the sounds of the animals they see. Keep stressing the phrase: This is a..... Encourage students to use the whole phrase after a few times of completing your sentence.)

5th-Game 2: Group Wordsearch (I've been working online since the quarantine so I place a word search about the vocabulary the class will be using. Before starting the word search, we go over the words in their own translation. Then students use the computer's pen to find the answer to the word search on the screen.)

6th-Speaking 2: Show students the worksheet from https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary/animals/farm-animals/9021 Ask: "How many animals do they see?" Have them say what the animals are. Encourage the phrase: This is a... Ask: "Which is their favorite animal?" Have students do a round-robin of answering you in a complete sentence. This goes back to practicing a previous language point (A habit you should get into when teaching YL. Always have parts in your lesson where students are encouraged to use old phrases so as to refresh their memory and continue their English education.)

7th-Writing: (Some students are still slow at this stage when it comes to writing. At this age of 6-7, I minimize the writing. Otherwise, it will take all class period for three of them to complete writing 5 sentences.) We complete the worksheet as a class. Then I have students comply and complete 2 or 3 sentences from the worksheet that I give them. Example: (1) This is a ... , (2) It is ....(color);  (3) My favorite animal is a...

8th-Game 3:Online memory game:https://www.eslgamesplus.com/farm-domestic-animals-vocabulary-esl-memory-game/

(Put the students in teams and have individual pick the cards. Score points when a team member gets a pair. To make it less boring and fairer, I only allow a turn per student, even if the student has won a pair for his/her team.)

***I put in more games than normal because I am teaching online and it helps keep my young learners' attention.

End the class with "Old MacDonald" in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6HzoUcx3eo  as students get ready to leave.

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ESL Teaching in this Age of Coronavirus

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Schools are closing worldwide. While some remain open, they need to take cautious steps to stay diseased free. For the other learning establishments, they are left wondering what to do now. We all realized that being on house locked down is not a forced vacation and learning still needs to be done.

So, what to do? The following is advice for schools who are closed/closing and for those who are still open.

We're Open

First of all, if you are in an area that has reported cases of the disease, you are on borrowed time. There is no telling when you will be pushed to close. Use this time to train your students, how to self-study. Show them how to review sections of their textbook or worksheets, by writing vocabulary from these parts and making dialogue/sentences with them. Practice grammar the same way or write drills like,

Example: (Write on the board)	Students’ Answers:
Present Continuous Verb: take       (+) Affirmative: She        (-) Negative:         (?) Question:       Short Answer:	(+) Affirmative: She is taking a pen.              (-) Negative: She isn’t taking a pen.              (?) Question: Is she taking a pen?  Short Answer: Yes, she is. / No, she isn’t

Also, take some preventive measures:

- Spray some hand sanitizer in every students' hands as they enter the classroom.

- Have students sit in rows to limit contact.

- Use online games where students shout out or use hand gestures to give their answers. (Example: Using the multiple-choice in a game from eslgamplus.com, students put up one finger for the first option, two for the second option and so on.)

-Instruct students to cough into their elbow, not their hands and don't let them go to the toilet, except for an emergency. And always have them wash their hands afterward, adding a spray of purell before they come back to class.

-More writing and independent practice need to be incorporated into your lesson plan.

-Speaking practice should have students a foot away from each other.

- Encourage elbow taps when they wanted to say a good job to other classmates or take on the "Demolition Man" hand clap

Yes, we have reached this level. No matter how silly it may seem. It keeps us safe.

Closed Down

School closure makes learning suffer. But some things can be done about it. You don't want students to come back as if its the first day of school with 3 months of summer wiping out their memory of English. Remember if you don't use it, you lose it. So here are some ideas to help homeschool students during this difficult time in our history.

-set up a Google Drive account. Email parents the link when you have placed videos, worksheets or scanned page assignments on it. Have students scan or take pictures of their work to email to you.

-transition your class into online teaching. There are many platforms to broadcast an online course. Here are some free ones:
           *Moodle
           *Zoom
           *Udemy
           *Rcampus
           *Peer 2 Peer University
           *Thinkific
           *Teachers Pay Teachers
           *Google Hangouts
           *Google Classroom


- you could even set up a YouTube channel for lectures or links to other videos to teach learning points in your lesson.

It will take from half a week to a week to set up and get familiar with the system but once that hard part is done, it's easy sailing.

Either way, in this day in age, there is no excuse not to continue teaching. A good teacher knows when to adapt. So, with the right preparation and attitude, you can make this temporary crisis not completely stop our way of life. Get out online and teach those students English!

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