All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

Here's an activity I did with a fourth grade bilingual group. They were studying the plurals ending in -ies and -ves. I pre-made the trunks and the leaves just to save time but you can have them create everything. They were each given black paper, two trunks and 10 leaves. They were then instructed to look in their books for words which made their plural using one of these forms. We had studied these plurals the previous class. They were supposed to write the words on the leaves and then glue them to the branches. They worked together and compared their words to make sure they were right.

Everybody knows how to play tic-tac-toe. I used this game to review superlative with my teen students but it can be used for just about anything. All you have to do is adapt it to what you're teaching. A friend from work gave me the idea to use popsicle sticks (thanks Candice). You can use small paper squares for the exes and circles. It would be best to have students write the words on the paper themselves. The more they do the better. In this picture I used bottle tops, which I am forever saving. After they played the game a few times, they had to come up with sentences in the superlative of the words they used to play. I placed each tic-tac-toe set in plastic bags and handed them out to pairs. If you have time, the class can rotate around the room and play all the sets; each one had different words on them.