Halloween has already gone this year, but you can use this mini-book next year!

My students loved it!

You have to cut the sheet of paper above and down and follow the instructions.

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The idea behind the mini-books is from Alenka, a member of ESLprintables. I made my own mini-books based on hers.

This one is about Thanksgiving. It tells the story in a very simple way (it was NOT easy to simplify it so much! This was the best I was able to do.)

The mini-book can be used for students to have a summary of a topic you are dealing with (or that you have just taught). You can try to have the students reading the mini-book after they have done it. Then, they just have fun colouring it.

You can have a mini-book with only one A4 page! Isn't that great?

How to make your mini-book? Just check the link on Alenka's webpage, where you can also find lots of mini-books made by her. Just go through the links on the left and you will find lots of great stuff! If you click on "Funny English", there are many more things to find!

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I've just discovered a fabulous website for colouring pages. If you are looking for  nice colouring pages, sorted by topic, just click on the image and you will get lots of them for free:

The idea behind this weather chart is not mine, I saw it somewhere on the Internet and made my own.

At the beginning of each class, one student comes to the front and says the month we are in, the day it was yesterday, the day it is today and the day it will be tomorrow, glueing the month and the days of the week on the corresponding place.

The student(s) should also answer the teacher's question "What's the weather like today?", glueing the corresponding picture on the circle.

With this chart, the students can practice the months of the year, the days of the week and the weather.

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This is a cover for the English Portfolio to give students at the beginning of the school year. They colour it as they want, write their name and draw themselves in the box under the name. (They can alternatively draw anything they want to illustrate their cover).

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With this wall-display, you can teach the seasons and some vocabulary related to them. When a season comes, you make a part of your final window. Just glue name of the season on top of the corresponding rectangle and the tree in the centre of it and give each student a leaf (for Autumn), a raindrop (for Winter), a butterfly or a flower (for Spring) - I prefer the butterfly - and an apple (for Summer).

The students colour the picture, cut it, and one at a time, they glue it on the seasons wall-display. It's a good idea to ask the students to say the word before gluing the picture. If a student doesn't remember the word, I ask him/her to go back to his/her place and try to remember it (usually the classmates tell him/her the word and the student tries hard to memorize it to be able to glue it on the wall-display!).

If you want to make your seasons wall-display to last longer and be reusable, just laminate the window after gluing the trees and ask your students to glue the pictures with blue-tack instead of glue. That way you can easily remove the pictures after the schoolyear and use it again.

Seasons Wall-display

 Spring Wall-display

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Summer Wall-display

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Autumn Wall-display

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Winter Wall-display

 (The tree is the same as the one I used for Autumn, that's why it doesn't come in this file.)

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Here you can download a pdf document with all the seasons.

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These are 12 different cards to play "Bingo". Your students can practice 3 topics at the same time: fruits, colours and numbers. You call a fruit, a colour or a number each time and the students who have what you say in their card should mark it.

You can also choose just one topic and leave the others out. There are more fruits than colours or numbers in each card, because this was the main topic I was dealing with when making the cards. But you can change the cards to suit your needs (the .doc file is editable). 

If you want the pictures to teach the fruits, I have them as flashcards. Just click here.

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A worksheet to practice the rooms of the house. First, the students have to solve the crossword puzzle. After that they should unscramble the words and do the wordsearch.

Rooms of the house included: attic, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, study, garage, garden, living room and dining room.

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A worksheet where students have to cut the family words and paste them on the right lily-pad. You can choose the colour or the black & white version.

I've drawn the frogs myself to match my frogs in felt I used to tell the story The Frog Family. You can download the templates here.

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A similar worksheet to the one I posted yesterday, but this one only focus on the grandparents, parents and brothers (the other one adds the uncle, the aunt and the cousin).

The students must cut and paste the words under the right family member, do the crossword puzzle and colour the family.

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