Overseas Teachers of English Course Minimal Resources
Here are some activities using strips of paper! 1. Dialogue build: Writing/Reading Put students into pairs and give each pair six strips of blank paper. Tell them to write a short dialogue to recycle any new lexis or language. Explain that they should write each line of dialogue on a separate strip of paper. Give students time to think of a dialogue and write the six lines of their dialogue on their strips of paper. Monitor and check for accuracy. When students have finished, tell them to mix their strips of paper and exchange them with another pair of students. Explain they should read the strips of paper and try to put the dialogue in the correct order. When students have completed the reordering activity, tell them to practice the dialogue with their partner, focusing on any difficult pronunciation. Tell students to continue to exchange their strips of paper with their classmates until each pair has reordered and practiced each of the dialogues. 2. Sentence Hot Seat! Students often have trouble with sentence formation often forgetting the auxiliary verbs this is a great activity to drum the correct form into their heads! Put the students into teams . Hand out 6 slips of paper to each group and ask them to write a sentence on each slip of paper using the target language e.g. present continuous. She is playing tennis at the moment These are then passed to another group. One person picks up a sentence and elicits the answer from their group without using the words on the piece of paper. The first team to finish is the winner! 3. Important dates in your life Teacher writes three dates that are important to them on the board. Teacher asks students to ask them questions to guess why they are important. The students then write three important dates in their life on three different pieces of paper. These are then put in chronological order with the rest of the class. A coin is used as a dice. When we land on a persons date the class must ask questions to find out why this date is important. 4. Party time: Speaking/Vocabulary