APIEVocabulary: Origami and Paper Crafts
Origami and paper crafts
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✂️ Origami and Paper Crafts
Learn 10 everyday craft words, practice sentences, and build clear pronunciation!
💡 How to Use This Lesson
For the Teacher
Guide students through the 10 words in 20 minutes and monitor practice exercise answers. Encourage clear pronunciation during the final audio shadowing activity.
For the Learner
Read the word table first to learn meanings and memory tips. Next, finish the 16 practice questions and record your voice in the shadowing section!
📚 Word Table
3 Themes • 10 Key Words🎨 Theme 1: What You Make
| Word | Meaning | Common Collocations | Example Sentence | Memory Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 paper | Thin material for writing or folding. | fold paper | "Fold the paper in half." |
💡 Sounds like "page". Paper makes pages!
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| 2 airplane | A vehicle that flies in the sky. | paper airplane | "Make a small paper airplane." |
✈️ Air + Plane = flies in the air!
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| 3 bunny | A cute small rabbit. | paper bunny | "Fold the paper into a bunny." |
🐇 Picture long rabbit ears!
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| 4 rectangle | A shape with four straight sides. | long rectangle | "Cut the sheet into a rectangle." |
📐 Rect = right angle sides.
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✂️ Theme 2: Parts and Pieces
| Word | Meaning | Common Collocations | Example Sentence | Memory Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 edge | The outer line or border of something. | straight edge | "Fold along the straight edge." |
📏 Think of the sharp desk edge!
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| 6 half | One of two equal parts. | in half | "Fold the square in half." |
🍕 Cut a pizza into 2 equal parts.
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| 7 piece | A single part of something. | piece of paper | "Take one piece of paper." |
🍰 Sounds like a piece of cake!
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📦 Theme 3: On Your Table
| Word | Meaning | Common Collocations | Example Sentence | Memory Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 stripe | A long narrow line of color. | red stripe | "Draw a red stripe on it." |
🐅 Zebra has black stripes!
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| 9 pile | Things placed on top of each other. | pile of paper | "There is a pile on the desk." |
📚 P = Put in a stack!
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| 10 craft | Making things with your hands. | paper craft | "Origami is a fun paper craft." |
🎨 Craft = Create art by hand!
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📝 Practice Exercises (16 Questions)
Easy → HardPart 1: Collocation Matrix (Match the Words)
1. Select the word that correctly pairs with "fold":
2. Select the word that correctly pairs with "paper":
3. Select the word that correctly pairs with "straight":
4. Select the word that correctly pairs with "paper" (activity):
Part 2: Gap-Fill with Word Bank
5. Dialogue A:
"First, take one ____ of paper from your drawer."
6. Dialogue B:
"Fold the square sheet in ____ to create two triangle shapes."
7. Instruction C:
"Press your fingers firmly along the straight ____ to make a sharp fold."
8. Instruction D:
"Look at the large ____ of colored sheets on the table."
Part 3: Choose the Correct Word
Choose the single word that fits the meaning best.
9. "Look at the cute paper ___ on the table; it has two long ears."
10. "She painted a bright blue ___ across the white sheet."
11. "Put all the extra paper sheets into a neat ___."
12. "Origami is a creative paper ___ from Japan."
Part 4: Sentence Building
Re-order the given words to make a correct craft instruction sentence.
13. Words: [ half / fold / paper / the / in ]
____14. Words: [ make / paper / a / airplane ]
____15. Words: [ cut / long / a / rectangle ]
____16. Words: [ take / piece / paper / of / one ]
____🎙️ Shadowing Practice (10 Items)
Listen & RecordListen to the TTS audio model first, then click the recording button to speak out loud!
fold paper
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____straight edge
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____paper bunny
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____paper craft
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____"Take one piece of paper."
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____"Fold the sheet in half."
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____"Draw a red stripe here."
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____"Look at this big pile."
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____"Cut a neat rectangle."
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____"Fly the paper airplane."
[Bài tập luyện nói]
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