Clothes Unit Cutouts for the ESL Learner

 Moving on with the 12th resource for your English Class: Today I will focus on the cutouts to help students describe what a child is wearing.

LINK to the resource that has many features to create a clothes theeme lesson plan for your students that will keep them busy the whole unit.: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Clothes-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-12-6483533

Engage your ESL Kindergarten students with the cutouts as you diversify your teaching materials. Plan clothes activities as they are a great visual aid for kindergarten learners. I love flashcards because they are big, but the cutouts can be used for many things in class even if you are teaching online. They can be used to introduce the clothes vocabulary or to review the words. I even put them into classroom decoration. So many activities that you can plan.

Let's see some activities that you can do with your students. All the cutouts come with dotted lines to cut them easily.While your students are participating in the activities keep in mind writing down the assessment of how they use the language.

      Hang the cutouts on a clothesline. Students can name all the cutouts or say a sentence with the color of each clothing item.

Student: It's a white T-shirt. they are pink pants.

·       Show the students the people cutouts and have them describe what they are wearing.

Teacher: What is the girl wearing?
Students: She's wearing a red dress.

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   Place the chair and/or the table cutout on the board.

Put all the clothing cutouts in a box or a bag.  Walk around and have a student pick a clothing cutout and give that student instructions.
                  Teacher: Put the hat on the table.

           Continue with more students. There is the chair to do the same speaking activity. Ask more questions:
Teacher: Where is the hat?
Students: It's on the table.
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 Dress the dolls cutouts. I added multiple paper dolls and clothes for this activity.

Have individual students come and dress the boy or girl following your instruction using the verbs: PUT ON and TAKE OFF.

Teacher: Janet, Put the T-shirt on the girl.

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Students can dress up the dolls and describe the clothing items.

The People cutouts dolls are great for describing clothes in class or online.

You can use the people cutouts to say what the person is wearing and have the students dress their paper doll with the same clothes, as a listening activity.

 

This is an activity for older students. I bought wooden clothespins and added a letter sticker to each one. I assembled a clothesline with what I had at home. You can show the flashcards to guide the students into writing the Word using the clothespins.

I love using the clothespin for this unit. Here is an easy activity that you can create very fast and your students can play on their own or with a partner.

Print the templates and find your clothespins.

Cut strips of cardboard of 10 cm each and as long as you need. Cut the clothes cards and the words.

Glue the words onto the clothespin using silicon and the clothes cards on the strips of cardboard and students are ready to start matching the words to the clothes.

The clothespin match activity is done!

Take a look at the blog post for the Clothes Unit Flashcards:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/01/link-to-12th-resource-for-your-english.html

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