Sunday, March 31, 2019

Fruits and Vegetables Word Search Puzzles

Word search puzzles help English teachers get the vocabulary into students’ memories. I have created a few printable worksheets featuring word search puzzles designed to learn some 50 names of fruits, vegetables, berries and nuts. You can find the full list of words students can learn on the topic with the help of my worksheets here.

The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

When students are trying to match pictures of fruits and vegetables with the hidden words in word search puzzles, they train their spelling, learn to recognize words and develop concentration skills. I do my best to design colorful word search puzzle for every major topic we learn in the classroom. My students love such challenging activities. And I love them too as, being challenging, such puzzles are conducive to memory retention.

Fruits and vegetables word search puzzles
The fruits & vegetables word search puzzle for words lime, apple, pomegranate, pineapple, avocado, grapefruit, pear, kiwi, peach,orange.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Fruits and Vegetables Worksheets: Picture to Word Matching

I usually create two types of matching worksheets for my students: picture to word matching and word to picture matching. I have already published the word to picture matching worksheets. Today I’d like to share the other type of such printable handouts designed to learn fruits and vegetables vocabulary.

The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

These worksheets suggest matching a picture of a fruit, vegetable, berry or a nut to the correct word out of three options. This activity helps kids memorize English names of fruits and vegetables introduced during previous lessons. By the way ESL and EFL teachers can use my colorful flashcards for initial lessons when they present new words on the fruits & vegetables topic.

fruits and vegetables worksheet picture to word matching

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Clothes and Accessories Flashcards. Part 2.

This blog post offers another 10 printable flashcards designed to help English teachers introduce the vocabulary for the clothes and accessories topic.

The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

These flashcards make a part of my large clothes and accessories kit that also contains printable worksheets and games.

Button - clothes and accessories flashcards to learn English

Monday, March 25, 2019

Fruits and Vegetables Worksheets: Word to Picture Matching

Spring has come to many parts of the world and the people there will soon be enjoying fresh fruits and vegetables. Living in a country where spring comes in March, I use this season of the nature revival to introduce the fruits and vegetables vocabulary to the students I teach English to. And as usual, for this purposes I have designed an entire collection of printable teaching materials such as worksheets, flashcards, domino and bingo games.

The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

Designed in green colors, my vivid worksheets are supposed to help kids learn English names of some fruits, vegetables, berries and nuts as well as create the spring mood in the classroom. I have created the entire kit of printable handouts that ESL and EFL teachers can use to help their students memorize and consolidate the fruits & vegetables vocabulary. The kit consists of 8 word to picture matching worksheets (incl. one for British English vocabulary), 9 picture to word matching worksheets (incl. one for British English vocabulary), 6 word search puzzles (incl. one for British English vocabulary), 6 crossword puzzles (incl. one for British English vocabulary), 54 colorful flashcards (incl. some British English variations), 51 domino cards (incl. some British English variations), 15 bingo cards with cut-out chips and word cards.

Fruits and vegetables vocabulary - list of English words and pictures
My printables help introduce fruits & vegetables vocabulary consisting of around 50 words.

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Clothes and Accessories Bingo Game

As a rule I design two types of printable games to help my students consolidate the topic vocabulary: dominoes and bingo. I have already published the first batch of my clothes and accessories domino cards for English teachers to use for their classes too. Today I’d like to share the bingo game printables for the same clothes and accessories topic. This game can be a great activity to learn some 60 English nouns related to the topic.

The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

This blog post only shares five free bingo cards. My premium clothes and accessories kit has 15 bingo cards for larger groups of English learners besides other worksheets, flashcards and the dominoes. The kit is organized in a number of printer-ready hi-res PDF files storing the image-based teaching materials for ESL and EFL teachers.

Clothes and accessories bingo game

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Phonics Flashcards (Consonants S, T)

Today I would like to present another group of English consonant flashcards. The post contains 23 more cards dedicated to the letter Ss and 1 card with the letter Tt.


Ss: cards №№77-78 include words with the sound [s] at the beginning and the end of the words as well as when it occurs due to the double ss. Card №79 contains words where the letter S produces the sound [s] at the endings after voiceless consonants. Cards №№80-81 present words in which S gives the sound [z] when it occurs between two vowels and in the endings after vowels and voiced consonants. Card №82 offers words in which the letter S is pronounced as [ʃ]. Cards №№83-92 contain the blends sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, sh. Cards №№93-96 present the three letter blends spl, scr, spr, str. Card №97 presents the phonogram -sion which gives the sound [ʒn] while card №98 presents the same phonogram -sion which gives the sound [ʃn]. Card №99 includes words with the silent S.

letter s phonics, english phonics flashcards
Phonics consonants flashcards

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Clothes and Accessories Dominoes. Part 1.


Playing games is one way to make kids fall in love with learning English. It is especially important for ESL and EFL educators who teach the language to non-native speakers at early stages of studying English. The key to success with young students is to make the learning process as less boring as possible because games and fun activities are the most natural way of learning things for kids. This is the reason why I introduce games to every series of lessons dedicated to a particular topic. We have been talking about the topic of clothes and accessories recently. So I’d like to share some printable domino cards I have designed to help my young students learn some 60+ English nouns related to clothes and accessories.

Buy the whole clothes kit in printer-friendly PDF format
The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

The dominoes feature the same pictures I used to design the clothes and accessories flashcards. The dominoes game alone with the bingo game make part of my clothes and accessories kit that also includes a number of printable worksheets and a set of flashcards. Those printable materials are great for introducing and consolidating the clothes and accessories to young students. English teachers are welcome to either download my clothes & accessories worksheets, flashcards and games from this blog or buy the printer-optimized PDF version of the entire kit.

Printable clothes domino game

Sunday, March 10, 2019

English-Chinese Flashcards: Wild Animals. Part 2.

I continue publishing my collection of printable English-Chinese flashcards designed to help ESL and EFL teachers working in China break the ice with Chinese kids who are just starting to learn English. This blog post offers another ten flashcards featuring wild animals.


I'm sure these colorful flashcards will make it easier for Chinese kids to remember English words that may look as strange and difficult for them as Chinese characters look to people from Europe and America. Those cards helps English teachers understand a little bit of Chinese too as they contain the pinyin transcription of Chinese words. This may help teachers that speak no Chinese better understand students' responses and evaluate whether they memorize the English vocabulary correctly. I'm starting with wild animals flashcards because are the most beloved creatures for the kids around the globe. There are so many animated movies and children's books about animals that it makes lots of sense to start learning English with names of animals. So here they are another 10 English-Chinese flashcards featuring the following wild animals: a cheetah, a crocodile, a deer, a dinosaur, an elephant, a fox, a giraffe, a hedgehog, a hippo, and a kangaroo. 

Cheetah - English-Chinese flashcards for wild animals topic

Friday, March 1, 2019

Clothes and Accessories Word Search Worksheets

Searching for words is one of assignments I offer to my students when we study this or another topic during our English classes. I design and print out word search worksheets to help the kids memorize the English vocabulary on the topic. Since we have been talking about the clothing vocabulary for the last few weeks, I’d like to share my wordsearch worksheets that help students learn some 60 English nouns related to clothes and accessories.

The kit includes flashcards, 4 types of worksheets, dominoes and bingo game

Clothes and accessories word search worksheet
Word search worksheet for words shoes, shorts, cap, shirt, jacket, scarf, coat, socks, jeans, bathrobe.