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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Activity 24: Messy closet Jelena Čupić – Serbia Age: 8-10 30 minutes Large classes? Yes Mixed level? Yes Materials: Paper dolls, paper clothes, an outline of a closet/wardrobe. Organisation: Individual, pair and group work. Aim: To revise vocabulary related to clothes and expressions of place. To practise reading for detail. Description: In this activity the children have to ‘tidy’ up a closet by reading a description of its contents and putting the clothes in the correct place. Preparation: You will need to prepare a paper doll, and for each group, some glue and a set of paper clothes. Procedure 1. Use the paper doll to introduce a character to the children. Give it a name or ask the children to name it. Tell the children this character is very untidy and they are going to help tidy up its wardrobe (closet). 2. Give each child/pair or group a large A3 picture with the outline of an empty closet, including shelves, hanging rail etc. together with a description of what the tidy closet should look like and the paper clothes that need tidying, for example: My t-shirts go on the top shelf on the right. My jeans go on the bottom shelf on the left. My shoes go in the bottom of the wardrobe, under my jeans. My belts and ties hang on the wardrobe door. On the middle shelf I put my underwear. Trousers go on the top shelf next to the t-shirts. 3. The children read the description of the tidy closet and stick the items of clothing in the correct place. 4. The children put their tidy closet on the board or wall and compare their work with others. 54 © British Council 2012
TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Notes Although it is time-consuming to create the doll, wardrobe and clothes, if you can laminate all the paper items and use blu tac or sticky tape to stick rather than glue, then the materials can be re-used for this activity, with a different text, and for other activities. Alternatives • Give the children a list of the relevant items of clothing, ask them to find pictures and cut them out. This could be done as a homework activity. • You could also describe the closet to the children and ask them to draw it as part of the activity. • This activity can be extended to a writing activity by asking the children to draw a picture and write a description of their own closet. • It can also be a listening activity if you choose to read the text out loud rather than giving it to the children. • Jelena also suggests another activity which can be done with paper dolls. This activity is called My Nutty Family. 1. Model the activity by presenting the imaginary character. Use a doll, picture or drawing to present the character and to say something about their life. 2. Give out a slip of paper with the name of a family member to each child or pair of children. Give each child or pair a paper doll and a selection of accessories. 3. The children think of the background story to their character – who they are, what they do, where they live and so on. They then dress their paper doll according to the character they have invented. Encourage them to be creative and funny. 4. The children take it in turns to come to the front and talk about their character using the first person. Encourage them to make connections with what others have said before them to link the characters together. • Geneviève Parrain (France) suggests using a paper doll or puppet to introduce the class to a new class member. 1. On slips of paper (one for each child) write a piece of information about the new class member. For example, ‘I am 10 years old’, ‘I like apples’, ‘I live in a small house’, ‘I have two brothers and two sisters’, and so on. 2. Introduce the doll as the new class member. 3. Explain to the children they are each going to get one piece of information about the new class member. They have to memorise the information and then remember information that their classmates tell them. 4. The children walk around the class and exchange information about the new class member. They then sit down and write as much as they can remember about the new classmate. The child who remembers most is the winner. No resources? Do this as a whole class activity with one set of clothes. Children take it in turns to put the clothes away and say/write where they have put the clothes. Or ask the children to imagine their closet/ shelf at home and to say where things are. © British Council 2012 55
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