October 8, 2017
by Larry Ferlazzo
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The Best Resources For Helping Beginner ELLs Learn About Halloween & The Day Of The Dead

As I shared a few months ago (see Beginning A New “Best” Series Of Interest To ELL Teachers), I’m beginning to create an updated series of “Best” lists for Beginning English Language Learners. They will ultimately replace the resources I have on my outdated website.

I’ve done quite a few so far, and you can find them all at All My Thematic “Best” Lists For Beginning ELLs – In One Place!

I’ve got several more to go, however, and here’s the latest one – on Halloween and The Day of the Dead (you can see my extremely lengthy list on Halloween for students of all language levels here):

HALLOWEEN

Halloween Words

MES Games

Halloween Word Match

Halloween Costumes ESL Vocabulary Memory Game

Halloween Vocabulary ESL Memory Game – Ghost, Mask, Pumpkin

Halloween British Council

Halloween Activities

DAY OF THE DEAD

Picture Matching Quiz

September 26, 2017
by Larry Ferlazzo
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The Best Resources For Helping Beginner ELLs Learn About Numbers

I’ve done quite a few so far, and you can find them all at All My Thematic “Best” Lists For Beginning ELLs – In One Place!

I’ve got several more to go, however, and here’s the latest one – on numbers:

Numbers

Number Exercises

Numbers 1 to 10 ESL Vocabulary Interactive Board Game

Numbers 10 to 100 ESL Vocabulary Interactive Board Game

Months and Ordinal Numbers ESL Vocabulary Game Activity Online

Numbers From The British Council

Numbers 1 to 10 Vocabulary – Listening Memory Game

Numbers 10 to 20 Vocabulary – Listening Memory Game

Numbers Game

September 23, 2017
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Slideshow For ELLs: “Cline” or “Spectrum” On Temperature

Clines, also known as spectrums, are a good way to teach English Language Learners various vocabulary “gradations.”

We’re starting a unit on “Descriptions” this week in my ELL Beginner’s class, and here’s slideshow I put together in a few minutes to teach “boiling, hot, cool, cold, freezing” using both climate and food/beverages. The “answer key” is on the last slide.

After I do some quick initial teaching of the words, I place them on sticky notes around the world. I show an image, and then students go to the area they think it represents. Later, student write the words using a diagonal line (see lots of examples here).

Here’s both the PowerPoint itself, and the embedded Slideshare version:

Temperature cline (spectrum) from mrferlazzo

September 19, 2017
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Using “Spot The Difference” Pictures With ELLs

Photo via Wikimedia Commons

I like to use “Spot The Difference” pictures with my Beginning English Language Learners.

There are plenty online, and I’m usually able to find one related to the theme we’re studying at the time (just search “Spot The Difference +[theme] )

For example, we’re learning about “School” right now, and I found this Spot The Difference picture of a classroom. Students first labeled objects in the picture that they already knew.

Students will use these sentence frames tomorrow, share with partners and then share with the class. It’s a fun way to review and practice writing, speaking and listening. The sentence frames obviously be modified in many different ways: