Flip Book to Practice Present Simple

Have you ever tried to make a flip book? If not, you can try this in the next class. It's really fun and interesting for students, particularly primary or secondary students. Actually, I got this idea from British Council's page on Facebook. Then, I tried this idea in my English classroom to practice present simple. For your information, flip book is a kind of book consisted of some pages with pictures and inside of each paper there is a sentence or information of the picture when we turn the page. That is why we can use this book to play game to practice certain language target in the classroom.

Even though it sounds complicated in making a flip book, but we can make it in a simple way made of sheets of plain papers. Yesterday, I had an English class of present simple topic for eight graders. I told them that we would like to make a flip book. I showed to them the example of flip book made by me. Before they made it, they practice present simple using worksheets about the pattern and the exercises. They practice how to make simple sentences talking about their weekly routine from Sunday to Saturday. Then, I asked them to prepare four sheets of papers and cut them into a half part. After that, they arranged the cut-papers to be flip books, it was consisted of eight pages. In each page, they wrote the days and drew pictures corresponded the weekly routines. After it was done, they exchanged their flip book and tried to guess the activity corresponded by the picture. If the students had the right answer, they would have a score.