The Make-Your-Own Hamburger Hut, gives your students have the
opportunity to make their own hamburgers out of the ingredients given. You get all the pieces separately and can put together your own hamburgers, as you like them (or ask someone else to, in order to get confidence in ordering, expressing opinions and asking questions).
It's great for both ESL / TESOL learners and early learners. You can cut out and laminate the pieces so that they can be reused again and again. It really engages students in a physical task. They can also be put onto a smartboard and moved around.
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This can used to teach all sorts of lessons:
* Expressing likes and dislikes (’I like cheese’, ‘I don’t like beetroot on my hamburger’);
* Expressing opinion (‘I don’t think it is
right to eat meat’ ‘I think egg on hamburgers is weird’);
* Food vocabulary (lettuce, tomatoes, cheese etc);
* Asking questions (‘Do you like cheese?’ ‘Would you like mustard on your hamburger?’);
* Colours;
* Discussion of cultural differences and food preferences;
* Countable and uncountable nouns (much vs many) (‘I don’t like much mustard’ ‘I only want a few pickles’);
* Prepositions of place (under, over, on top of, on etc) ;
* Superlatives and comparatives (bigger than, the biggest etc); and
* Ordering food target language (‘I would like..’ ‘Can I please have…’ etc).
Students can do the activities all together or can break into groups. Consider having one student taking orders, one making the hamburgers and other people ordering (then swap)! (:
They have been hand-drawn in a fun cartoon style to make them more
appealing. And yes, I am Australian, so I have included pineapple and
beetroot, but that's something else you can discuss with your students!
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I had a lot of fun with its prototype with ESL
students in Japan. There were lots of giggles and more importantly,
something to bring out those confident speaking skills.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Hamburger-Hut-Tactile-Fun-to-Target-Speaking-Skills-2011587
The monster colour cards and posters are now in Spanish! Helpful for learning los colores as well as as a stimulus for sentence building, such as descriptions.
I have made a set of posters and matching flashcards, all available at tpt in both British/ Australian/ New Zealand and North American English (to account for small spelling differences):
When I was overseas teaching English, one of the resources that I needed most often but was hard to find, was flashcards for clothes. Students not only needed to learn the vocabulary, but the adjectives to describe them (stripey, spotty or polka-dotted, floral, plain etc) and the order to use those adjectives (e.g. 'She was wearing a blue, floral dress.') 
As a teacher of English, I know just how necessary and yet potentially boring vocabulary lessons can be, so I have made a set of room cards in a cartoon style to make learning this sort of vocabulary fun, relevant and engaging.
So, I have made two resources that are intended to go hand-in-hand. The first is a set of flashcards which shows everyday objects, which has been featured in this blog before.
To go alongside this, I have also made resizeable images of cartoon-style rooms. Each room, (and the outside of a house), comes in a pair - one image by itself and one labelled with the words for that piece of furniture, furnishing or object in English. more languages will follow and I'll certainly take requests on that!
These are two cute, fun posters designed to expand the writing of
younger students - one including questions to expand their recount
writing and the second to help them build rich, interesting sentences.
This is a black and white diagram of the butterfly lifecycle, featuring
the Wanderer or Monarch butterfly, a butterfly which is probably
identifiable no matter where you're based.
This package contains:
There are really boring ways to learn vocabulary in your own or other languages, but hopefully this isn't one.
These are flashcards showing everyday objects and the word for them, BUT (and this is the cool part), they come in sets of three: one card shows the picture with the object, another shows just the picture and another shows just the word. So, after teaching the vocabulary with the handy picture, you can then test people using either the pictures or words (I recommend a game of pictionary), or let them pair them up in memory, snap or fish ('Have you got something to use in the bathroom?'). If you have to learn a lot of new words, why be boring?
Kids can pair the cards, alone or in groups (lay one type of time out on the table so they can choose a match), play memory, play snap, play bingo or draw/ write the time using the cards as cues.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Time-Flashcards-Minutes-2086741
I thought this would make a child-friendly getting to know you activity for new classes. Children can colour in,
decorate and display their own gingerbread person. Great for the start of
term. the gingerbread people are resizable.
