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

This easy to make paper giraffe can be used to practice the superlative or the comparative. After you roll the paper up to make a cone, you have to cut the base to make it stand up, so each giraffe ends up being a different height. I had my class line up their giraffes and we measured them up to see which one was the tallest. They also made sentences using the comparative saying that their giraffe was taller, shorter, bigger or smaller than a friend's giraffe. Tomorrow, I'm making this giraffe with my second grade group to illustrate a story about a giraffe and to practice the names of wild animals. You can use orange or yellow paper or they can even color white paper.

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.