Description

Age: 10-99
ESL level: CEFR A1
Type: one page in pdf format to be printed for each student
Target language: lexical items linked to measurements (length, width, height, thickness, weight), numbers (also decimal numbers), adjective comparatives, superlatives for the related adjectives (short-long, heavy-light, high/tall-short, wide-narrow, distant-close), classroom objects

Description of activity:
For this activity, you will need measuring bands or rulers and scales. Students first work individually and measure/weigh the items on their list. Then ask three of their classmates about the dimensions of their objects and finally, compare them.

The task revises names of classroom objects indirectly.

Time: 40 min
Font: Bodoni 72 Oldstyle, Garamond