2D Shapes / 2D Shapes: Teaching material for English lessons with picture cards, worksheets, games and posters (XXL Value Pack)

With this value pack, children learn the English names of shapes by labeling pictures, matching words and shapes with lines, coloring according to English sentences, and repeating the words in games such as Bingo, Dominoes, or the Memory Game. Basic shapes such as circle or rectangle, polygons from pentagon to decagon, and symbols such as heart or check mark are practiced.

What is included in the material

• Vocabulary Cards: 24 vocabulary cards with a picture and German term on the front and the English word on the back
• Word and Picture Cards: 24 word-picture cards with a shape and its English name, plus nine ideas for use
• Vocabulary Poster with 20 English shape words and color pictures of shapes
• Accordion Fold: Accordion book and mini accordion book with 23 shapes, each labeled or with blanks to fill in, including craft instructions
• Station Signs: 24 station signs with shapes and 24 with numbers
• Vocabulary Worksheets 1 and 2: Labeling shapes, each in one version with provided words and one without, with answers
• Vocabulary Worksheet 3: Write the English and German words for 24 shapes, with answers
• Draw the Lines 1 to 3: Match English shape words with pictures, in Draw the Lines 3 with German words, each with answers
• Cut and Glue: Cut out 24 English words and glue them under the corresponding shape, with answers
• Read and Color 1 and 2: Color shapes in the color specified by an English sentence
• How Many? Worksheet: Count shapes and write the English number word in sentences such as “There are … squares.”, in a second version write the sentences yourself on blank lines
• What Am I? – Worksheet: 10 English riddles in which shapes describe themselves by their corners, sides, or right angles, with answers
• Running Dictation: Running dictation with 20 word cards, 4 worksheets, and instructions
• Vocabulary Mini Test: 2 mini tests with 12 shapes each, translated in both directions, with answers
• Memory Game with 24 pairs of picture and word cards
• Bingo with 20 vocabulary cards and 64 bingo cards with 9 or 16 picture squares
• Dominoes with 23 shapes as pictures and English words, laid out from START to END
• I Have..., Who Has...? as a chain game with 18 game cards
• Floppi: Card game with 24 shape cards, 6 Floppi cards, and an answer sheet
• Match! with 21 game cards on which the shape that the two cards have in common must be found and named, in two game versions
• Cootie Catcher: Templates for a paper fortune teller with and without words for 24 shapes, plus folding instructions
• Star Puzzle: 2 star puzzles with 12 pieces each, assembly templates, and answers
• Puzzle: 16 three-piece puzzles consisting of a picture, an English name, and a sentence describing the shape
• Matching Circle: Assembly circle for 12 shapes in two versions, with or without an English description
• Vocabulary Wheel of Fortune: Templates for a wheel of fortune in three versions and six game ideas
• Drawing Game: Drawing game for two teams with 16 term cards
• “Don’t Say It!”: Explanation game with 18 game cards, each containing three forbidden words
• Small Talk Cards and Small Talk Game: 23 cards with English questions about shapes and a board game with 21 question squares
• What Am I? – Cards: 18 riddle cards, each describing a shape in English, with the answer at the bottom of the card
• Clip Cards: 20 cards where a clip is attached to the correct one of three English words
• Vocabulary Quiz: Quiz 1 and Quiz 2 with 20 questions each for the whiteboard and answer cards from A to D
• Vocabulary Fitness: Presentation for movement breaks, in which children call out 24 shapes in English and do fitness exercises in between

Tips for using the material

• Station work and remedial lessons: Draw the Lines, Cut and Glue, Dominoes, Puzzle, Star Puzzle, and Clip Cards can be used at stations and in remedial lessons, and the Station Signs can be used to label the stations.
• For the introduction or conclusion: I Have..., Who Has...? and the Drawing Game are suitable as a lesson introduction or conclusion, while the Small Talk Cards are suitable as a lesson introduction where previously learned words are used.

The following skills are promoted

• Vocabulary: the English names of flat shapes, from circle and square to octagon and nonagon, as well as cross, ring, or crescent
• Reading individual words when matching and connecting, in Read and Color, What Am I?, and in the Matching Circle, as well as whole sentences and descriptions
• Writing English words in the Vocabulary Worksheets, Mini Test, and Running Dictation
• Speaking when children name shapes in Floppi or at the Cootie Catcher, describe them in other ways in “Don’t Say It!”, or answer questions with the Small Talk Cards
• Fine motor skills when cutting out, gluing, folding, and coloring, for example in Cut and Glue, Accordion Fold, Cootie Catcher, and Read and Color