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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Phonics Flashcards (Consonants M, N, P, Q, R)

Today I would like to share another group of English consonant flashcards. There are 20 more cards in this post.


Mm: cards №№57-58 include words with the sound [m] at the beginning and the end of the words.

Nn: cards №№59-60 present words with the sound [n] at the beginning and the end of the words. Card №61 offers words with the silent N. Card №62 includes the words with the phonogram nk in which the letter N gives the nasal sound [ŋ].

letter m phonics, phonics flashcards
Phonics consonants flashcards

Friday, October 26, 2018

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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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
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).

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Collocations Worksheets: Verb "Have"

In today’s article I would like to share the first part of my new collection of English collocations. First of all it should be defined the meaning of this concept.

A collocation is a common word combination of two or more words that usually go together in a way that sounds correct. Understanding this helps English learners improve their fluency and speak more natural. The meaning of a collocation might not be expected from the meaning of its separate words therefore it is extremely important to learn the meaning of some groups of words you can come across frequently.

This post introduces common collocations with the verb have. Below you can find the list of these collocations.

List of collocations with verb have to learn English
List of collocations with the verb have

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.







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

Sunday, October 7, 2018

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.







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


Printable ESL crossword puzzle, three-letter nouns worksheet
ESL crossword puzzle for words ape, bag, bus, eye, ice, key, leg, pin, rat, tie, van, web.