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Flash cards are very versatile teaching resource especially for ESL and language teaching. They can be used virtually in any lesson and at every level of teaching ESL. In fact flash cards are indispensable for the beginner and elementary level as at these stages the learners are engaged in developing their vocabulary. Flash cards are useful for teaching vocabulary in a number of ways: matching words to pictures, drilling vocabulary, concentration games, singular and plurals, nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. Flash cards are also very useful for sequencing activities, pair work and group work. Flash cards are very useful for teaching grammar structures as well. This quote highlights the pedagogy/andragogy of using flash cards. For example “Howard Gardener's multiple intelligence theory reminds teachers that there are many types of learners within any one class. Gardener's research indicates that teachers should aim to appeal to all the different learner types at some point during the course. It is particularly important to appeal to visual learners, as a very high proportion of learners have this type of intelligence. Flashcards can be bright and colourful and make a real impact on visual learners. Many of the activities outlined below will also appeal to kinaesthetic learners.” It is not difficult to find flash cards, you just have to Google the term and then surf the websites to locate the relevant flash card resources. However not all teacher have the necessary of time that is required to do this so I have collected some of the websites for ease of reference and access. I hope that this resource is useful for colleagues own use in their classrooms as well as using flash cards to produce imaginative worksheets to share on ESL printables for benefit of all. This document is divided into six sections. Sections 1: these are articles/documents that provided variety of ideas for how to use flash cards in your classroom Section 2: This section provides links to many excellent and well-known websites where you can download flash cards. Section 3: To make the document even more useful I have also included the website links in alphabetical order, so you can go straight to the subject you are interested in. This section is not complete and I will update it from time to time. Section 4: this section is a collection of some of the major and best sites for clip art. Section 5: clip art sites in alphabetical order. Section 6: These are some of the substantial collection of flash cards that are stored on my books folder on Mediafire but ones which you may not hace come across. Enjoy! I will continue to add links to this document so put it into your favourite. Section 1: How to use flash cards Suggestion of activities to be used with flash cards for any level. http://www.topenglishteaching.com/directory/material/flashcards/flash_cards/article.htm using flash cards in language learning http://apprendre-anglais.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-flashcards-in-language- learning.html top 30 fun and education flash card activities. This alone makes it worth a visit http://www.k- 3teacherresourcesmembers.com/Sample_Pages/Sample_Downloads/101_Ways_to_Use_ Word_Cards_Top_30.pdf This is an excellent site creates by one of our esl printable members and has phenomenal access to resources. A must visit. http://myeslcorner.blogspot.com/2008/10/ideas-to-use-flashcards-in-class.html This site provides free esl flash cards on different topics. http://www.teachchildrenesl.com/flashcards.htm Clip art cards that can be used with songs and other activities. Excellent for kids. http://genkienglish.net/clipart.htm http://ww2.ac-poitiers.fr/ia79-pedagogie/IMG/pdf/Use_flashcards.pdf tips for using flash cards http://busyclass.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=9 Section 2: flash cards websites An excellent site that provides free flash cards in colour in 3 different sizes. Can be used for variety of activities. http://www.eslflashcards.com/ This is a premier site for free flash cards and associated activities. http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards.php A site that provides flash cards suitable for kids and in various sizes. http://www.esl-kids.com/flashcards/actions.html The description for the flash card section reads: “Here you can create and print free custom flashcards. There are more than 70 different categories with over 1100 different words that you can choose from. The interface is very easy to use and you can have your flashcards printed in seconds!” http://www.barryfunenglish.com/flashcards.html Another really useful site with access to hundreds of colour A4 flash cards http://www.esljunction.com/esl-efl-flashcards/esl-tefl-efl-flashcards.html Jan Brett site is a treasure trove for 100s of activities for children including flash cards. A must visit site and one which needs exploring especially for primary grade teachers. http://www.janbrett.com/activities_pages.htm The flash cards are in PDF format and also available in two sizes and there are lots of them under different categories. http://www.english-4kids.com/flashcards.html Tons of picture flash cards form this site at your fingertips. http://www.foreignlanguageflashcards.com/language/english-as-a-second-language-esl 6 set of flash cards. Worth a visit. http://teacherslove.blogs.sapo.pt/tag/flashcards 14 categories of flash cards that will add spice to your teaching http://www.learningesl.com/flashcards/ 100s of picture flash cards for colouring about animals, birds and insects- must visit for primary teachers http://www.coloring.ws/animals.html A goldmine of pictures and flash cards for learning foreign languages including ESL. http://www.myfreeflashcards.com/page/2/ This is another site with lots of quality flash cards but the they can’t be downloaded only viewed online in PDF format. http://www.theenglishe.com/files.php?Cat=22 This is a site well-known to everyone here and has lots of useful flash cards on offer. http://bogglesworldesl.com/cards.htm This is a cool site with cool pictures on variety of things including a few flash cards. http://www.eslthemes.com/index.htm Index of flash card folders from adjective to weddings http://www.kids-pages.com/folders/flashcards/ Real pictures and flash cards on various themes. http://www.lessonsense.com/tag/flashcards/ Quality flash cards that are related to certain course books but of course can be used for other activities. http://www.expresspublishing.co.uk/flashcards/flashcards.php Real sizzler of a site full of ESL activities and resources including flash cards. http://www.jmeacham.com/emergent.readers.htm#seasons.weather This is another site by esl printables member with excellent resources including flash cards. http://www.orianit2.edu-negev.gov.il/chazonasd/sites/homepage/victoria/p3animals.htm Lots of pictures and flash cards useful for various lesson activities for kids. http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-flashcards.htm Interesting collection of equality flash cards –well worth a visit http://ourlittlesmarties.com/2009/03/18/diy-flash-card-11/ 100s quality photos to illustrate vocabulary – great for advanced learners http://www.insidestoryflashcards.com/index.html Selection of flashpaper flash cards printable but can’t be saved. http://www.flashcardhub.com/ Range of flash cards collections -useful http://home.comcast.net/~wildjazmin/dad/FlashCards.htm This is indeed a sizzler with excellent resources for children but also includes flash cards for variety of topics http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/misc/other/seneal.html A brilliant site for children with special needs with lots of flash cards and pictures http://www.childrenwithspecialneeds.com/index.php? option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=66 Verbs clip art flash cards - useful http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/Verbs.html 11 topic based clip art flash cards of good quality for young children http://www.speechteach.co.uk/p_resource/clipart/clipart_intro.htm These flash cards will certainly liven up your class http://www.1-language.com/eslflashcards/ K-3 resources. It’s a fee payinh membership site but the free stuff includes flashcards and a range of other printables for the classroom. Well worth a visit. http://www.k-3teacherresources.com/free_stuff_for_teachers.html Though they are for another language but the pictures are high quality and can be used for ESL http://www.keetoowahcherokee.org/animals.pdf Though these flash cards and lessons are for French the pictures can easily be copied and the lessons modified for ESL purpose. http://www.learnanytime.co.uk/French/Food%20and%20drink%20(1).htm Old English vocabulary flash cards http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/language/OldEnglishFlashCards1.pdf A fantastic site with materials galore including flash cards and colouring page – must must visit. http://www.janbrett.com/index.html Quality flash cards in PDF format on variety of topics. Excellent stuff. http://www.eslkidslab.com/flashcards/index.html section 3: alphabetical order flash cards action flash card set http://www.englishraven.com/flashcardsactions.html action flash cards powerpoint presentation for present continuous http://www.knepprogram.com/knep%20Actions%20Flashcards.ppt alphabet animal flash cards http://www.billybear4kids.com/animal/animal-abc/a.html excellent quality animal picture flash cards http://www.scribd.com/doc/6340123/Animal-Picture-Flashcards flash cards of real pets - useful http://www.scribd.com/doc/3485194/Real-pets-flashcards alphabet flash cards http://www.calgaryislam.com/imembers/pdf/sisters/SC02.pdf animal set http://www.scribd.com/doc/4085837/Picture-Flashcards-Animals-for-Teaching-English- to-Kids farm animals flash cards http://koreaplus.net/files/AnimalsFarm_Flashcards1_564234.pdf animal pictures for colouring http://www.englishsube.com/uploads/p5/5r/p55rbEZJ_2jYxkh5bKdDKA/English- Animal-Flashcards.pdf animal clip art http://www.michellehenry.fr/flashcards%20animaux.doc humorous cat paintings http://www.wallcoo.net/paint/CatDreams_01/ animal flash cards http://cambridge.org/elt/resources/young/flashcards/animals_3.pdf whales and dolphins http://akidsheart.com/flash3/animals/whaleclips.pdf coral reef http://akidsheart.com/flash3/animals/animplants.pdf body http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/henry/corps.htm body parts http://www.dmitryvolokhov.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/flash-cards.pdf body part frog http://www.eflfrog.com/pdf/body.pdf body parts and lessons. http://www.eslflow.com/humanbodylessonplans.html body part flash cards and lesson for adults http://www.queenslibrary.org/ext/ALP/PDF_teachers/Session_01-We.pdf body flash cards http://h1.ripway.com/newbb77/Human%20Body.pdf daily routine pictures and flash cards http://www.scribd.com/doc/5481692/-Daily-Routine food fruits clipart http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/graphics/graphicsclipartanimations/clipartgraphics/Clip art%20Batch%202/fruits%20clipart.doc food set http://www.scribd.com/doc/4085758/Picture-Flashcards-Food-for-Teaching-English-to- Kids beautiful picture flash cards about rainforest – useful for work on the environment. http://action.ran.org/images/b/bf/RainforestFlashCards.pdf civics flash cards - America http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/M-623_reversed_colors.pdf Christmas flashcards, pictures and resources http://www.michellehenry.fr/christmas.htm#clip city town flash cards and lessons ideas http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/ville.htm#clip feelings and emotions http://www.skillsworkshop.org/esol/e1feelings.pdf http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/reap/Documents/Family%20Activity%208.pdf http://www.englishbox.de/ food flash cards http://www.slrc.ir/ESL%20flashcards%20-%20food%20(virtual%20class%20lesson %202).doc http://www.slrc.ir/ESL%20flashcards%20words%20(virtual%20Class)%20lesson %201.doc food flash cards http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1171664923304Food%20Cards.pdf fruit flash cards and others http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/graphics/graphicsclipartanimations/clipartgraphics/Clip art%20Batch%202/fruits%20clipart.doc fruits, berries, vegetables and mushrooms flash cards good quality. 10 pages http://www.scribd.com/doc/6408760/Fruit-Berries-Vegetables-and-Mushroom- Flashcards fruit English/French flash cards http://www.petitsfilous.co.uk/downloads/flashcards.pdf fruit flash cards http://www.lgfl.net/lgfl/leas/greenwich/accounts/subjects/ictteam/Resources/QCA %20Lesson%20Plans/1d%20labelling%20and%20classifying/Support%20Files/fruits.ppt quality fruit images/flash cards for learning vocabulary http://www.scribd.com/doc/11158686/6-Fruit-Images-for-Teaching-Vocabulary flash cards house set http://www.scribd.com/doc/4086197/Picture-Flashcards-The-House-for-Teaching- English-to-Kids health flash cards http://www.skillsworkshop.org/esol/e1myhealth.pdf hospital flash cards – has lots of other related flash cards http://www.hospitalenglish.com/flashcards/files/medication_flash.pdf insect pictures and vocabulary cards https://apologia.securesites.net/pdfs/notebook/Zoology_one_Flashcard.pdf? 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Web Elements http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us clip art sites and resources http://www.michellehenry.fr/clipart.htm furniture clip art sites http://www.furnitureclipart.com /links. html technology clip art http://www.ripley.k12.oh.us/CmpClipart/pcClipart.htm http://www.freeanimatedclipart.com/technologyclipart.htm http://www.wilsoninfo.com/computerclipart.shtml http://www.iclipart.com/search.php? . section provides links to many excellent and well-known websites where you can download flash cards. Section 3: To make the document even more useful I have also included the website links in alphabetical. folder on Mediafire but ones which you may not hace come across. Enjoy! I will continue to add links to this document so put it into your favourite. 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