Vocabulary Cards: Compound Words

Teaching compound words can be another fun way to help young students expand their English vocabulary at early stages of studying the language. I use printable compound word cards to introduce some basic vocabulary to kids. The cards show what parts the compound word is made up of. These printables make it interesting for beginner English learners to see how two words merge into a single word and how the meaning of this new noun reflects the attributes of the things the merged words represent. Introducing compound words this way is memorable for preschool and elementary school students and thus helps children memorize the vocabulary pretty fast. The design of the cards allows for using them for a variety of matching activities which adds even more fun to learning compound words.

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My collection of printable cards introduces the following 20 closed compound words: armchair, butterfly, catfish, cupcake, earring, fireman, football, jellyfish, lighthouse, lipstick, pancake, rainbow, raincoat, scarecrow, seahorse, snowball, snowman, starfish, sunflower, toothbrush.

English-French Flashcards

I’m glad to announce the release of another set of printable bilingual flashcards. This time it is English-French flashcards. They are designed to help ESL teachers working with kids whose native language is French teach English in a fun way.

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High resolution flashcards covering 700+ English nouns in 16 topics
English-only flashcards are available here

My husband used to study French in a Foreign Language Institute as a second foreign language. He used to teach French at school and even worked in France for a while. So he helped me to create this set of printable English French flashcards.

English-French flashcards are designed in different colors depending on the gender of French nouns

When designing English-French flashcards, I also thought about educators who might want to use this visual teaching material to teach French to English speakers. That is why I have designed flashcards in three different colors depending on the gender of French words: red for feminine French nouns, blue for masculine French nouns and magenta for French nouns that can be both feminine and masculine (e.g., professions).

Vocabulary Building Worksheets: Three-Letter Word Search Puzzles

Word search puzzles are another type of printable worksheets I create to help my young students build, expand and retain their English vocabulary.

I keep on publishing my ESL worksheets designed to introduce three-letter nouns to kids. Three letter words are good both for children and adult beginners because they are easy to remember. My collection of vocabulary building worksheets dedicated to three-letter nouns makes it possible to solidify these words into the active vocabulary of my students.

I have already published my three-letter nouns crossword puzzles, and this post in the second blog post of the series of publications dedicated to three-letter words.

There are 80 three-letter nouns featured in my vocabulary building worksheets. The list includes the following words: ant, ape, arm, art, axe, bag, bat, bed, bee, bib, bow, box, boy, bug, bus, can, cap, car, cat, cow, cup, dog, dot, ear, egg, eye, fan, fin, fly, fox, hat, hay, hen, hut, ice, ink, jam, jar, jet, jug, key, leg, lip, log, man, map, mat, mop, mug, net, nut, oil, owl, pan, paw, pea, pen, pet, pie, pig, pin, pot, ram, rat, rod, saw, sea, sun, tap, tea, tie, toe, top, toy, van, vet, web, wig, yak, zoo.

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My printable word search puzzles help children memorize and recognized the above-listed nouns. I hope fellow teachers will find these worksheets useful in making their English lessons more fun and effective. So here are the printable three-letter nouns word search worksheet.

Word Search Puzzles

ESL word search puzzle for words ant, axe, cap, cup, jam, key, oil, pig, sun, tie.

Vocabulary Building Worksheets: Three-Letter Noun Crosswords

It is impossible to teach English without classifying vocabulary into groups of words by topic, part of speech, spelling rules and whatnot. By doing so, ESL teachers introduce small and digestible chunks of vocabulary that students can easily remember and use in their communication. I’d like to share an idea of introducing some of easy three-letter nouns to kids in order to help them build and expand their active vocabulary from early years of studying English.

I have created a series of vocabulary building worksheets featuring as many as 80 three-letter nouns. These English words are small and simple enough even for beginners to remember them in no time. The nouns I introduce are also frequently used ones, so, when memorized, they will constitute a solid part of students’ active vocabulary.

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The list of three-letter nouns featured in my worksheets includes the following words: ant, ape, arm, art, axe, bag, bat, bed, bee, bib, bow, box, boy, bug, bus, can, cap, car, cat, cow, cup, dog, dot, ear, egg, eye, fan, fin, fly, fox, hat, hay, hen, hut, ice, ink, jam, jar, jet, jug, key, leg, lip, log, man, map, mat, mop, mug, net, nut, oil, owl, pan, paw, pea, pen, pet, pie, pig, pin, pot, ram, rat, rod, saw, sea, sun, tap, tea, tie, toe, top, toy, van, vet, web, wig, yak, zoo.

I have designed the set of printable worksheets that helps students memorize the three-letter words through a variety of assignments including crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, word to picture matching and others.

With this blog post I’m starting to publish the series of vocabulary building worksheets, flashcards and games I use to teach English to kids. I hope ESL teachers from all over the world will find my teaching materials good enough to be used for their English classes too. The first post dedicated to vocabulary building exercises features three-letter nouns crossword puzzles.

Three-Letter Noun Crossword Puzzles

ESL crossword puzzle for words ape, bag, bus, eye, ice, key, leg, pin, rat, tie, van, web.

700+ Printable English Flashcards: Nouns

I’m happy to present you my new set of English flashcards. It’s a huge collection including more than 700 English nouns. I used pictures that I had found to create English-Spanish flashcards. As I promised I would design bilingual flashcards for a bunch of languages. However I decided to also make English-only flashcards that would serve as a great tool to teach English to kids regardless of their native language.

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700+ hi-res image-based flashcards covering nouns in 16 topics

Just like the above-mentioned English-Spanish flashcards, the English flashcards set includes the most frequently used nouns related to 16 topics:

Animals

Animals vocabulary flashcard featuring a squirrel

English Spanish Flashcards

An ESL teacher from Mexico sent me a message once asking whether I was interested in making English-Spanish flashcards to help educators in Spanish-speaking countries teach English to kids. Being an ESL teacher myself, I loved the idea of bilingual flashcards. So I decided to create a series of printable bilingual flashcards starting with the English-Spanish ones as a tribute to the Mexican teacher who gave me this wonderful idea.

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High resolution flashcards covering 716 English nouns in 16 topics

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Spanish is a great language to focus on when starting my cause of creating bilingual ESL materials for teachers all over the world. It is estimated that there are some 480 millions of native Spanish speakers which makes Spanish the world’s second most spoken native language. The geography and economic connections of the majority of Spanish-speaking countries dictate make learning English a strategic necessity for their population as their English-speaking neighbors are their major trading partners and sources of tourists. In many cases the ability to speak English can be vital for people’s career in such countries as Mexico. The United States is Mexico’s biggest trading partner buying almost 80% of total Mexican exports. The number 2 trading partner is another English-speaking country — Canada. The USA is the top trading partner also for Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and some other Hispanic countries of Latin America.

My collection of English-Spanish flashcards covers 716 English nouns.

Singular and Plural Nouns Flashcards

Hello, dear fellow teachers! Teaching grammar is always a challenge for educators especially when working with young learners. One of the first grammar topic they face on this stage is singular and plural nouns. I would like to present you my new set of flashcards featuring singular and plural nouns. This set consists of 132 flashcard pairs of which 66 picture cards feature singular nouns and other 66 picture cards feature plural nouns.

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All the flashcards are divided into several groups.You can see some examples of these flashcards below.

1. The first group of flashcards includes 42 pairs of words which make the plural by adding -s. These are flashcards featuring farm and wild animals, toys, objects, food, and clothes.

There are the following pairs of words:

Farm animals: cat - cats, dog - dogs, cow - cows, pig - pigs, hen - hens, rabbit - rabbits.
Forest animals: bear - bears, squirrel - squirrels, snail - snails, snake - snakes, raccoon - raccoons, bee - bees.
Zoo animals: tiger - tigers, zebra - zebras, elephant - elephants, lion - lions, koala - koalas, kangaroo - kangaroos.
Toys: ball - balls, doll - dolls, bike - bikes, balloon - balloons, car - cars, robot - robots.
Objects: pencil - pencils, bag - bags, book - books, sofa - sofas, chair - chairs, cup - cups.
Food: apple - apples, plum - plums, banana - bananas, carrot - carrots, cucumber - cucumbers, pumpkin - pumpkins.
Clothes: shirt - shirts, jacket - jackets, mitten - mittens, hat - hats, shoe - shoes, umbrella - umbrellas.

Cat - cats, dog - dogs, cow - cows