Top 5 ESL Flashcard Games and Activities for Kids | Fun Ideas for ESOL Flashcards for Children

Flashcard games are a great activity for children learning ESL! Flashcards get your students active and help them learn while having fun. Check out my video on ESL flashcard games and activities, and bring them to life in your own classroom! --------------------- Find out how to teach children new words in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PL0XYG_OJ8& --------------------- Want to find out more? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-flashcard-games/ 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities for Kids: https://amzn.to/3vZO18Y https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #flashcards #teachingenglishwithjackie #flashcards_for_kids #flashcardsforkids #teachingenglishabroad ---------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------- More TEFL flashcard ideas from @Andy - The ESL Guy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxYpHhndRQU -------------------- Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:32 Concentration 1:17 Flashcard questions 1:51 Yes/no questions with a partner 2:17 Secret word 3:00 20 questions 3:42 Conclusion Transcript for ESL flashcards games and activities: It's Jackie from esleaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about my top five ESL flashcard games for kids. Now honestly when I teach kids, I never go into class without a set of flash cards. It's kind of like my teaching security blanket or something. I don't know, anyway, but it's like I love flash cards. I can't get enough of them. Don't set foot into a children's ESL classroom without some flashcards and you will thank me later and you will know the power of the flash card. So anyway, here are top my top five ESL flashcard games and activities you can do with your students. The first one is concentration. So if you have like a picture and then a word, it's perfect. That will help students remember new vocabulary. So I put about 16 together and put students into groups of four. They shuffle them and place them face down on their desk. The first student will take two cards. If they match, they keep it and get a point. If it doesn't match, they put it back in the same spot and then the next student goes. So it's basically like a memory game. You probably will have to make your own flashcards for this but it's actually quite simple and there are actually like there's a ton of great stuff on the internet as well. All right, the next one, flashcard questions from the teacher. If you have a smaller class of say less than five or six students, the teacher asking questions based on the flash cards is perfect. So maybe you have a flash card of a cat. You could show it and you could say, do you have a cat? Yes, I do. Or, you could give the flash card to the student and they could ask the teacher, do you have a dog? No, I don't. Simple questions like that. Or maybe brushing your teeth, you could say, what time do you brush your teeth or how often do you brush your teeth? The next one is very similar but students go together. So in pairs, give them a stack of flashcards and they have to ask yes-no questions based on what they see on the flashcard. Maybe, do you like soccer? Yes, I do. What time do you go to bed? I go to bed at 8pm. Something like that so it can really be used for just about anything so yeah use your discretion but yes-no questions are perfect for that. The next one is secret words. So this works really well for smaller classes. You can play together as a class but in bigger classes, you can play maybe in groups of like five or six. So there's one captain at the front of the class and they have a set of flash cards but they can't see them. I would hold the flash card in front of me. All the people in the class or the other five or six people in my group could see the flashcard and they have to give me hints and then I have to guess what the flash card is. So you can make it into a big elaborate game with rounds and different teams and that kind of thing, or it can just be like a fun thing for students in their group. All right, the next one is 20 questions. So this is a really ideal way to play 20 questions but not let it get out of control. For example, there's always the kid who's going to choose like an armadillo or whatever. That one random animal that nobody in the class knows and then it's going to be so frustrating and people will be angry and whatever so I generally combat this by giving the person who has the secret thing, I give them a flash card based on whatever we are studying. So maybe it's a job or animals or just whatever. If it's an animal that they see and it's a giraffe and then they know that that's their secret thing and then students have to ask 20 questions or 20 guesses to figure out that it is a giraffe. Alright so that's it, those are my flashcard games for kids.