About This Activity Type
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Overview Most of these activities provide students with the opportunity to have fun solving puzzles that rely on effective verbal communication with a partner. Other sets of materials are designed for craft activites to supplement other speaking games, such as the Family Tree Cut-&-Glue Kit, which provides students with materials that make it easy to design their own family tree. |
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Methodological Background Cut & Glue Materials are usually designed for information-gap activities. The use of printable components that can be glued down to another sheet of paper in a variety of configurations allows for both various outcomes and therefore necessitates the use of various grammatical functions to convey precise meaning. Information-gap activities are a type of classroom communication practice exercise in both communicative language teaching (CLT) and task-based language teaching (TBLT). These activities allow teachers and students to complete a task that can only be successfully completed through authentic verbal communication. Note: For card game-based information-gap activities, please visit the Deduction Card Games page. |
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Family Tree Cut-&-Glue Kit
This kit provides the needed printable components for students to assemble a family tree featuring their own family members. Students will need to provide photos (or drawings) of their family members, which can then be cut-to-size and placed on a family member shape, which has space for an image and for the family member's name to be written. A titled frame is also provided with space for students can arrange up to three generations of their family.
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Family Member Holders
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Family Tree Frame/Background
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These materials are provided to make it easy for students to replicate the style of the family trees depicted in the Family Tree Tile-Based Game materials. The consistency in style will make it easier for students to understand that the families shown in the related speaking game are, in fact, sets of related people, similar to their own families.
Flags Cut-&-Glue Kit
These variously colored rectangles, circles, and stars can be cut and glued into different configurations to produce 32 real world flags. Printable cards for all 32 flags are also included, so students can be divided into partner-pairs, with one student verbally describing the flag on the card and the other student attempting to assemble a matching flag by cutting and gluing some of the provided printed components together onto a white, red, or blue background (also provided).
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Cut and Glue Flag Components
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Cut and Glue Background Rectangles
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The chosen 32 world flags have all been handpicked to ensure that even students at a lower level of English skill will be able to successfully verbally describe all of the flags using just a few consistent phrases and a relative small number of vocabulary words.
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Cut and Glue Flag Components
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Flag Cards Printable Page
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Students can describe all 32 of the flags to their activity partner by first communicating which background color to begin with, and then instructing their partner to place either "tall" or "wide" rectangles of specific colors on different positions on the flag background.
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Armenia Flag Card
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Cameroon Flag Card
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For example, the Flag of Cameroon below can be described as having a yellow background, a tall green rectangle on the left side, a tall red rectangle in the middle, and a smaller yellow star in the middle.
The 32 flag choices allow students to repeat this activity enough times to develop a strong competency in the use of the included prepositional phrases.
Robot Cut-&-Glue Kit
This kit provides a printable PDF with a Robot Body and some Robot Parts that can be glued to "the top of," "the left-side of," "the right-sided of," "the bottom of," and "in" the robot.
Students can complete the activity in pairs. Partner Two randomly draws a Robot Card from the provided card deck and then, describes the robot without showing the card to Partner One.
Partner One then cuts out Robot Parts and glues them to the Robot Body to assemble a robot that matches the robot pictured on the Robot Card.
This allows students to get ample practice with the key propositional phrases.
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Robot Cut & Glue Sheet
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Robot Cards
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The Robot Cut & Glue Sheet includes everything necessary to create dozens of robot combinations with some simple cutting and gluing. First, the bottom 1/4th of the page is cut off. Then, based on Partner Two's communication, Partner One can cut out each individual Robot Part and glue it next to the correct side of the Robot Body printed on the top 3/4ths of the page.
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A Standard Robot Card
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A Standard Robot Card
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Robot Card With L/R Markers
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Teachers can choose between using the Standard Robot Cards or using a special set of cards with L/R Markers that will help students remember which side is their left and which side is their right.
Train Shapes Cut-&-Glue Kit
This kit provides a printable PDF features a variety of shapes in different colors. The shapes can be used to create more than a dozen variations of a simple train engine. The printable shapes are accompanied by a set of 12 cards showing 12 different possible variations of the train engine.
These materials can be used for an information-gap activity where the first of two participants communicates verbally which color each shape in the train is, and the second participant must use their partner's verbal instructions to try to construct a train that matches the one on the card they cannot see.
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Shapes Printable |
Layout Guides |
Each of the 12 provided cards has a different combination of colors for each of the train parts. Activity participants can refer to the parts as (from left to right, top to bottom) the 'front,' the 'body,' the 'wheel,' the 'chimney top,' the 'chimney,' the 'drive rod,' the 'cab top,' the 'cab,' and the 'window.'
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A Train Shapes Card
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A Train Shapes Card
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