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: