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

 Here's an activity I did with my adult group. These are basic learners, and we're studying parts of a house. I found some pictures of rooms on the internet and placed them on my class slides. I didn't let them see the slides and told them I would describe a specific room in a house, and they would have to draw it. After they finished drawing the room, they compared their rooms to see if they were alike. In pairs, they talked about their rooms: there's a bed and next to the bed there's a side table, etc. Last, I showed them the picture of the room on the slide, and we all made sentences together. We forget that adults can and like to draw and have fun too. 

Here's a video of me teaching how to make a paper house. I've used this house with young learners and teens in different ways. In one class, they made the house and named the parts of the house. In another class, students were studying countable and uncountable words. They made the house into a supermarket and had to separate the market into 2 sides. On one side, they had to draw only countable objects and on the other side uncountable objects. I paired this group up and had them ask each other questions using there is and there are to discover what was in their partner's market.

We are learning about parts of the house and where certain objects of the house belong. My first grade class was able to make this paper couch by following step by step instructions from my Google Slides and I also did it along with them. This is couch is made the same way I made the bed from this post . They each presented their couches and I asked them where the couch is in their house. I asked them questions about the colors and how many cushions they placed on their couch as well. One student is using the couch for her tiny dolls. 😊                                                                               

Well, they aren’t really preposterous, are they? But prepositions do seem utterly absurd sometimes. Here’s an easy way for kids to practice them. All you have to do is make this bed. Yes, a bed. This paper box bed is easier than it seems. Just draw a rectangle in the middle of a paper and cut 2 lines at the top (around 2 inches long) and then at the bottom. Fold all the sides of the bed and glue the ends together. Have the kids draw a character to sleep on the bed. They can decorate and glue anything they want on it, except the character. Make sure they color and decorate the beds before gluing them together. You’ll need popsicle sticks for the bedposts too. When the beds are ready. Explain that they have to  place the character they made according to what you say. You can tell them to place the girl, boy or even a teddy bear on the bed, behind the bed, under or next to the bed, even between beds. Depending on how old your students are, they can even tell each other where to plac...