Go Away Big Green Monster Activities Bundles
Less planning, more learning! Save time preparing super fun ESL lessons with Go Away Big Green Monster.
♦ Hours of fun, dynamic activities that you can use NOT ONLY with the Green Monster story, but also in any lessons on body parts, colours, halloween or monsters.
♦ Flexible materials and activities for 6-10 lessons.
♦ Perfect for mixed age groups or to use across a range of levels.
♦ Pick and choose the activities you want. All the activities are great value at around €1 - €2, with bigger and bigger discounts the more you buy.
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Flashcards and game cards
Perfect for a whole host of whole class, small group and pair practice of your target language.
Play and learn super useful face and colour vocabulary with these Green Monster flashcards and game cards.
- Help your young learners learn key face vocabulary AND acquire colour + noun structures in a fun, dynamic way.
- Try out the included game ideas for interactive practice and easy learning.
- A choice of three card types provide plenty of learning opportunities so your esl kids never get bored.
- Great for developing higher order thinking skills with categorising opportunities and encouraging children to build on language in the story.
- An incredible range of lexis to choose from to suit both higher and lower level young learners.
- Includes game ideas for hours of interactive practice and easy learning.
- A choice of three card types provide plenty of learning opportunities so your esl kids never get bored.
- Great for any body parts focus and/or to tie in with a monster and halloween theme.
Worksheets with a twist
Printables that are perfect for introducing and practising key face and colours vocabulary. Follow the activity suggestions for dynamic ways to work on receptive and productive skills. They also include options to practice whole body vocabulary OR focus primarily on colours.
- Choose from 4 different sheets to easily differentiate according to ability and age group.
- Helps you practise super useful body parts and colour vocabulary.
- Useful activity suggestions give you plenty of ideas to increase interaction, engagement and learning.
- Stretch your learners with the colour description template. Print on the back. Read (or look at the picture) and colour.
- Easy to differentiate for mixed age groups and abilities.
- Practise useful face vocabulary: eyes, ears, nose, hair, face, mouth, teeth or whole body vocabulary: toes, hand, head, shoulders, arm, feet, tummy, leg, knee, fingers, neck, elbow
- Includes lots of easy to follow activity suggestions for maximum interaction, engagement and FUN!
- Easy to differentiate for mixed age groups and abilities.
- Practise useful face vocabulary: eyes, ears, nose, hair, face, mouth, teeth or whole body vocabulary: toes, hand, head, shoulders, arm, feet, tummy, leg, knee, fingers, neck, elbow
- Includes optional cut and paste pieces – great for independent reading and matching. Use without to practising spelling and writing.
- The fun doesn’t end there! Includes game ideas for before and after completing the worksheet.
- Super useful face vocabulary that will be that bit more memorable: face, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth, hair
- Easy to acquire adjective order with the colours.
- Detailed activity procedures to help you plan quickly and efficiently AND show you how to include more interaction.
- Preparation is easy with a choice of templates to choose from.
- Opportunities to develop listening and speaking skills, as well as vocabulary.
Interactive storytelling and retelling
While you can incorporate retelling with any of the resources on this page, these resources are more specifically designed for retelling and manipulating the story.
Your ESL young learners will acquire more language from the story with multiple retellings. The resources below are super helpful for allowing you to do this in dynamic and fun ways. Empower your young learners to tell the story for themselves (or even add their own unique twist on it!)
- See the excitement from making a whole book from one sheet of paper.
- Ideal for practising sequencing skills and at the same time consolidating language from the story.
- Cater for all abilities and contexts by choosing from a choice of templates and procedures.
- Get creative with the included monster pics, then tell an alternative story. Fun!
- Effortlessly integrate skills as kids listen, read, then drag and drop the pieces into place.
- Perfect for consolidating story language! The interactive slides follow the same order as the story. Your ESL kids can predict what comes next.
- Works with ANY internet-connected device so you can even get kids practising at home.
- Hosted on Boomlearning – It’s super easy to create a free account. You have the option to send fast links or assign the activity so you get immediate feedback on individual progress.
- An exciting way for kids to practise their listening and reading skills as they drag pieces to create new funny monsters.
- Includes 3 groups of slides: listen, read and build; listen, read and trash, create and describe.
- Works with ANY internet-connected device so you can even get kids practising at home.
- Hosted on Boomlearning – It’s super easy to create a free account. You have the option to send fast links or assign the activity so you get immediate feedback on individual progress.
Try the Playable Preview to get a better idea of how it works.
Games to make and play
All of these can be made to play before your class, but they are also fantastic for integrating even more language practice because the kids can make their own copies. Super useful for bringing English outside the classroom – your young learners will be so excited to play these at home with their families.
- Choose from a range of templates to easily differentiate according to ability, age and vocabulary focus.
- A super effective way to provide natural practice of body parts and colour vocabulary.
- The perfect tool for fast finishers AND a game that even your littlest learners can make to play at home.
- Follow the tips and suggestions for fun ways to incorporate full sentences in an interactive and dynamic way.
- Effortlessly engaging games and craft that really get your ESL young learners learning parts of the face, adjectives and colours.
- Several options that make it super easy for you to choose the level of difficulty appropriate for your particular students.
- Perfect for mixed age groups – use the picture dominoes with preschool and include some literacy practice with primary.
- Print and play OR use the included Activity Procedures to include even more practice while they make their very own copies of the game.
- Engaging games and craft activities that really get your ESL young learners learning parts of the body in a natural way.
- Several options that make it super easy for you to choose the level of difficulty appropriate for your particular students.
- Super easy to target specific skills with a choice of templates – literacy, listening, speaking, pattern recognition and more!
- Print and play OR use the included Activity Procedures to include even more practice while they make their very own copies of the game.
- A super interactive way to practise face vocabulary!
- Cater to all ages and abilities with a choice of different board games and procedures.
- Give your young learners even more English speaking practice with the create your own game versions. They’ll play at home with their families too!
- Useful activity suggestions make lesson planning easy, and give you lots of ideas for different ways to play.
- A super interactive way to practise body parts vocabulary!
- Cater to all ages and abilities with a choice of different board games and procedures.
- Give your young learners even more English speaking practice with the create your own game versions. They’ll play at home with their families too!
- Easy to follow tips and suggestions that give you loads of ideas for different ways to play.
- Includes 6 super fun games divided into 3 types – picture boards, colouring boards and drag and match boards.
- Hosted on Boomlearning, these boards are perfect for face to face or online. They work on any internet connected device. Super easy to open a free account and play straightaway.
- Easily differentiate for ability and/or age group. Focus only on face vocabulary or use the whole body boards to stretch your young learners.
- The included audio means that children can work independently too!
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Not sure how many resources you need?
Of course it depends on your particular context, but I’d like to give you an idea of how I’ve used them across multiple levels, lessons and age groups. Below are a couple of sample 6 lesson maps with the resources.
Note: Another important point worth mentioning is that I also use some of these resources independently rather than alongside the story.
3 to 5 years (also suitable for older children new to English)
Lesson 1: Face and Colour Flashcards; Colouring Sheet 1
Lesson 2: Face and Colour Flashcards; Jigsaw Craft (game); Make a Monster face
Lesson 3: Digital drag and drop story; Face vocabulary dominoes (games); Find and Count
Lesson 4: Face and Colour Flashcards; Digital Drag, Drop, Create; Face vocabulary dominoes (craft + game)
Lesson 5: Face and Colour Flashcards; Face vocabulary Board Games
Lesson 6: Digital drag and drop story; 16 page mini-book (pre-folded + cut and paste pictures); Digital Board Games
6 to 9 years (also suitable for younger children with 2+ years of English)
Lesson 1: Face and Colour Flashcards; Body labelling sheets; Find and Count
Lesson 2: Face and Colour Flashcards (categorising activity); Face vocabulary Monster dominoes (picture to words game)) Jigsaw Craft (higher level)
Lesson 3: Digital drag and drop story; Monster body flashcards (lower level); Body vocabulary dominoes (craft + game)
Lesson 4: Digital Drag, Drop, Create; Monster body flashcards (group games); 16 page mini-book
Lesson 5: Monster Body flashcards; Body vocabulary Board Games, Find and count (describing or asking for pieces as in the story)
Lesson 6: Learning stations with games from both flashcard sets, jigsaw races, board games and dominoes; Digital Board Games
What’s more, each resource includes different templates so you can differentiate for different levels or repeat the story across year groups but using different templates.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!
All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having almost 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.
Yes! There are a range of templates to choose from within each resource so it’s super-easy to differentiate. The included Activity Suggestions will also give you ideas about how you can conduct the activity so each child can work (play!) to their full potential.
Definitely! (You knew I would say that!) No, but seriously speaking, I started making these resources for just one class but I’ve now used them several times over. I’ve even used them with the same groups in subsequent years, because the different templates allow me to vary the activity and language focus. More than that, my primary 2s requested activites with this story because they had such happy memories of working with it when they were in PreK.
It’s also easily possible to use many of the body parts resources with older primary or even teens.
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