Teaching colours to young learners

Target Group:

Beginner Level

Material:

Colour flashcards

Vocabulary:

black, blue, brown, green, grey, orange, pink, purple, red, silver, white, yellow

Process:

Introduce colour vocabulary to students first. Let students find the matching writing according to the colour flashcard what you hand out. You also can write the vocabulary on the board and the students have to stick the correct flashcards above the writing. An additional exercise is to erase letters from the writing where students have to rewrite the letters into the free space onto the board.

Skills:

Colours vocabulary; spelling; numbers; animals; sentence structure; word-picture association; word-picture recognition; early reading; conjunctions; favourites

Game Idea:

Read and Stick - Divide students into 2 teams. Let the stronger team start the game. Stick a set of flashcards on the board and write the vocabulary below the flashcards (class spells together). Take the flashcards off the board and place them on the floor in front of the whiteboard.  Each student can grab only one flashcard and they have to stick it above the correct writing back onto the whiteboard. Check the time with a stopwatch. The fastest team wins.

Note: Do not write vocabulary to high on the board, use lower board area, otherwise students cannot reach the writing to fill in letters or stick the cards back onto the whiteboard!

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