12 flashcards — one A4 sheet, twelve cards, no blanks

  1. Print on A4, portrait, 1 sheet.
  2. In the print dialog set scale to 100% — not “Fit to page”. Twelve cards fill an A4 exactly, so any shrinking makes them a size that is nearly right and isn’t.
  3. Turn Background graphics on. Every picture here is a drawing in two tones, and the olive is what tells the thing being named apart from the room it is in — in greyscale that difference goes away.
  4. Cut along the dashed lines. Card stock, or paper glued to card, if they are going to last.

One set, one stripe: all twelve are olive, so they sort back together by edge without reading. Three chips inside it — Homes (3) · Places (4) · Rooms (5). Same 70 × 74 mm as flashcards-02 through -05, so these shuffle into that pile; they are not the size of flashcards-01’s bigger cards.

Teach flat and apartment together, and expect the question. The two cards are the same picture on purpose — they are one thing with a British name and an American one, so there is nothing to spot. Hold them side by side, ask “what is different?”, and the answer is “nothing — two words for this”. They are the second and third cards of the top row.

The five rooms are the same room five times. Same walls, same floor, same window in the same corner — only the furniture changes, so the furniture is the word. Point at the whole group, not at one object: the card says kitchen, not cooker. The four places work the same way — same land, same hills, and only what stands on it grows from fields to a city. Deal them in that order and the words explain themselves.

⚠ Two pairs to check before you teach them: kitchen and bathroom both have a tap, and bedroom and living room are both a long low piece of furniture. If either pair confuses her, the bath and the television are the things to point at. This banner does not print.

Homes
house
Homes
flat
Homes
apartment
Places
countryside
Places
village
Places
town
Places
city
Rooms
kitchen
Rooms
bedroom
Rooms
bathroom
Rooms
living room
Rooms
dining room