Shapes

 

 

 In Maths we study shapes but can you say them in English?. Try to match the shape with its picture. It's easyyyyyyy and funny!

Level: 2nd cycle of Primary

Teachers:

 Shapes are common to describe elements of our enviroment such as buildings, means of transport, etc and it's very useful for children to learn them in English. This is a good excuse to work the cross curricular topics. In this occasion the theme we relation with English will be Maths. Students will remember the shapes that they have learnt in previous courses. Another idea to complete this review is you play with them a bingo game where they will have to listen from you the different shapes and colours, and cross out in the different sheets with draws you  handed  out  previously. I show you an example sheet, after this explanation. They are going to practice with these activities the reading and listening skills.

Numbers (for 3th course of Primary)

I know you can say numbers until 10, until 20 or ever more, but are you able to write them without to see the following printables? Fill it these sheets by looking, writing and matching, and after that make a competition with your classroom mates or friends trying to write down the number your classroom mate tells you.

Level: 3th course of Primary school.

Teachers: 

I give you two printables I found on Internet in order to practice the writing skill mainly but we are going to practice also the others skills: speaking (one students will dictate other different numbers), reading (they have to read the numbers in letters), and listening (they  will have to pay attention to identificate the word in order to write them later). After fill in the printables they would work in pairs or small groups and trying to guess the numbers that others students try to dictate. Another idea could be to make a number dictation, that is to make the same game but you will be the person to read the numbers.

Chestnuts' day (Calbotada)

Autumn is here again. Maybe you go with your school to the countryside to  enjoy with your classroom mates and pick up chetsnuts. Colour one of the chestnuts I offer you and put your name at the bottom, after that stick it on your sweter or coat with velcro.

Level: All ages.

Teachers: 

We  used this chestnuts in my school without the English label witch I added later. I don't add this chestnuts as another English activity but like a chance to use these chestnuts in a Chestnuts day, called Calbotada in some places and Magosto in others.

Alphabet

Hello again boys and girls. You have been working with the alphabet on classroom and the follow sheet will help you to remind how to say some of your favorite word, such as apple, elephant, island (pronounced without s, don't forget this), and some more. Enjoy reading these words and repeating them aloud. Then write some of them.

Now sing this song:

A - B - C - D - E - F - G
H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P
Q - R - S - T - U and V,
W - X - Y and Z
Now I know my A - B - C's
Next time won't you sing with me?

Level: 4th course of Primary School

Teachers: Children have learnt to pronunce different words and they can discriminate some sounds but it's important to them to learnt the English alphabet once and for all. In book texts suitables for this lever you are going to find diferent activities to work English alphabet, but I want to share this sheet where students can associate an alphabet letter to a word. Because some of students can't still distinguish very well the phonetic symbols, they are not written on the sheet, and your help in pronunciation it will be necesary in order they can link the different words to the sound as you pronounce them. In this activity we are practing Listening and Reading. After that, one idea could be you let them to work in couples and, meanwhile one of the students is reading a word the other try to write down in a paper, making a small competition. We are practising in this activity Speaking and Writing The student who has written more word correcly is the winner. Make this with few words because they would get bored of the activity.

One an excellent idea is use the book Dr. Seuss's ABC. This is a good book for lower levels but it's also very useful for this 4 th Primary level. In this book, student have to read different rhymes of the letter they are pronouncing. I see you one example in the following picture:

Halloween's Pumkins

Hello boys and girls. You know Jack O' Lantern is the typical Halloween pumkin, but there are so many more Halloween pumkins. Today I going to show you some Jack O' Lantern pumkins and many more.

Pumkins on Galway (Ireland):

 

Pumkins used in the classroom this year:

 

Let's make a Halloween mask

Students:

Do you want to elaborate by yourself a funny Halloween mask. Follow these easy steps and get your beautiful Jack O' Lantern mask for Halloween.

 

1. We'll need orange card

 

2. We divide the orange card in different rectangles, taking the size of the half of a A4 sheet, more or less

 

3. We cut the orange card

4. We'll got a mask for each rectagle

 

5. We take one piece and fold it in half

6. We fold it again in a half

7. We cut in a corner

8. We unfold it and we can see it in that way

                                             9. We fold the top of this piece of  paper in this way

             10. And we make a cut in a triangle shape

 11. This is the cut we have made

  12. Now we unfold that part and we make a cut on the bottom on the card

 13. And we have to do a final cut

 14. And this is our final result. You can make two holes and add elastics

Level: From Childhood up to 2nd cycle of Primary School.

Teachers:

Students love mask and they like to wear them for Halloween. But there are differents ways to explain this activity. If you are going to work with students of Primary School you can tell them they are going to create a Halloween character mask. You need to have work with them the Halloween vocabulary before by, for example, showing pictures or flashcards about Halloween characters: Jack O' Lartern, witch, ghost, bat, etc. We are going to create a Jack O' Lantern mask but they don't know, so you can to motivate them by asking what is the Halloween character they are going to create because they only will find out at the end.

For Childhood children we are going to tell a story like this (you need to see the pictures to understand it):

There is a boy and girl that want to build a Halloween house. Firstabke they build a roof. But as they want to see the scenery they need also to create a window.

-Oh, It's a beautiful house with a beautiful window but how we come in?, say the girl.

-You are right, say the boy, we need to create a door. And they do a door.

- It's something missing, say the girl.

-The cat flap! Shouted the boy. And they built a cat flap. And finally they finished their Halloween house (and you show them the mask).

Create a Jack O' Lantern

Students:

Your teacher has told you about Jack O' Lantern so  its would be fancy to create a Halloween Jack O' Lantern. Follow the following steps with the help of your student or your parents:

Level: 3rd and 4th of Primary School.

Teachers:
You are going to need pumkins and follow the easy steps on the pictures. It's obvious that children can't use knifes so ask them to desing the face with a black market and to empty the pumkin, but you can practice the vocabulary related with this activity : pumkin, knife, newspaper, etc.

Happy Halloween: Jack Lantern Story

Students:

It's Halloween time boys and girls and the most famous Halloween's character is Jack O'Lantern and this is his story:

  Jack Lantern Story

Jack, it seems, was a bad man. He kept all his money to himself. He wouldn't help people for all of his life.

When Jack died, he wasn't allowed into Heaven because he was such a miser: a person who wouldn't share his money.

It seems that Jack also had played tricks on the Devil, who wouldn't let him into hell, either.

Jack was stuck. He had to walk the earth, holding a lantern,until Judgment Day.

This is the story that has been handed down to us by the Irish people who came to America in the 1800s. They carved their turnips into the face of "Jack-of-the-lantern" to remind themselves what happened to people who were misers. And in the fall, pumpkins are much easier to find than turnips.

So that's why Americans today carve their pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns.

Jack O' Lantern

Level: 3rt and 4th of Primary School.

Teachers:

This is a brief story of Jack O'Lantern, you can read the story aloud and explain briefly the importance of Halloween in anglosaxon countries. As you know, it is very important the sociocultural competence and we teach not only English by also anglosaxon custom and traditions. You can print the text and give it to the students and made them read the text aloud. So they are practising the reading skill.

 

How old are you?

 

Students:

Do you know how old are your friends? Lear the way to questions and the ways to answer to this funny question. Follow the instructions of your teacher at the time of working on these sheets.

Level: 4th of Primary School.

Teachers:

These sheets are for working the four skills but all about speaking and writing. You can say to a student I´m 10, How old are you? or point one student and say Ana is 9 years old, or she's 9. With these expressions they are practising the To Be present tense on an inductive way and they can fill the sheet practising in this way by writing what they have practiced in an oral way before.

I must say that not all the printables I edit on my blog are all mine but the most part of them, for example these sheets were taken in Internet but I add to my blog because I find them interesting to work with students the expressions about the age, all about the second one because the first one is so simple.

Colours (only for Third course of Primay School)

Students:

I know you know all the colours of the rainbown, but I also know that you sometimes mistake white for black, or green for grey. Maybe you know what colour is pink but you don't remeber what purple is. And the last question, can you write the name of the colours in english?. Practice and enjoy with this printable.

Level: Third course of Primay School.

Teachers: 

In the first cycle of Primary school your pupils have review the different colours they studied on their childhood period, but some of them can't write in english the name of the different colours. This is a printable is aimed so to practice more the writing skill than the others.

How are you?, Fine thanks you, and you?

Students:

How are you? is a polite expression in order to speak someone you know or when someone introduces you someone else. If you want be polite also, one of the most typical answers is Fine thank you, and you?. Practice on class with your classroom mates or your friends.

Level: From Childhood to 2nd cycle of Primary Shool.

Teachers: 

This printable is another easy work on ways of introduction.  You can develop on class the for skills:  listening because they hear you to pronunce the sentence, speaking beacuse they repeat the expression, writing if you ask them to do it in a white sheet or in the same sheet, and reading if they read aloud the expression or by themselves. You can work, all about, with intonation beacuse as you know children don't usually make intonation in questions. 

As I explained in the last blog entry this printable could be used on lowers levels such as 1st cycle of Primary and even in childhood level but I want to use these printables in order to review the English they have studied in the last academic years. As this is a blog dedicated to pupils of 2nd cycle of Primary school, if you follow my blog you can check I going to use printables in accordance with this level's age.

Hello, my name is... What's your name?

Students:

Maybe you know all your classmates and teachers but maybe not. But this is a good way to star speaking English. Read the speech bubbles and then fill in the gap.

Level: From Childhood to 2nd cycle of Primary School.

Teachers:

We star this school year with simple activities. Some sheets, in the begining,  could seen to simple to the studends because they have to colour but we are on the begining of the year and they are students of the 3rd and 4th course.  I need to remember they have to speak, listen, read and write so with this first sheet they can star to read and write but you need to encorage them to repeat the sentences loudly before read and write them.