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

Remember these? I guess we can use them at any age because my basic adult group used them successfully to practice colors, spelling, and asking and answering questions. After the whole class watched a step-by-step video to learn how to make the fortune-tellers, they colored 4 of the outside squares using different colors. They then wrote 8 different topics on the inside and a question under each topic. In pairs, one student chose a color and the other student had to spell the color as they opened and closed the fortune-teller. Finally, they picked a topic and asked and answered the question on that topic. These are something that can be used in the following classes as a wrap-up and review activity. Adults should also be able to make things and bring out the child that exists in all of us.  

This is an activity to be done in a classroom but which can be easily adapted to online classes. In a classroom, you can tape papers like these with different letters of the alphabet for fast finishers. When they are done with an activity, let them pick a word from the little brown bag and draw it. If they don’t know the meaning of the word, let them ask a friend or look it up. The little brown bag can be made with a toilet paper roll. Write around 10 words on slips of paper and place them in the little bag. The letter can be written on a small piece of creative paper and glued on. To adapt the activity to online classes, you can use Wordwall to make a wheel which students spin. Add letters to the wheel, whichever letter the wheel stops on, students have to draw an object which begins with that letter.