1. How do you start your lessons? What kind of warm-up activities do you do? My students have
two favourite games which they enjoy very much. One of them is the tic-tac-toe game. There
are two teams, they choose a square, I say either a word in Hungarian or a definition and the
students have to tell me the English word. If y tea has three scores in a line in any direction,
they win. The other game is an individual competition. Students all stand up. I say a
Hungarian word to two students and the one who says it quicker can stay stand up, the other
one sits down. We play this game until only one student stands. He or she is the winner.
Young and teenage students like this game, too. I play the tic-tac-toe game with the
teenagers. Have you got any ideas for warm-up games and activites? If you have, please tell
me because I like trying new ideas.
Dear Bloggers,
The second term starts tomorrow in Turkey and I think with the new ideas from blogosphere,
teaching would be more enjoyable, Thanks for lovely inspiration.
As teachers, we have plans in our minds before we go to the classroom to make the most of
the teaching time. They aren’t the ones written somewhere else, they are just like routines
of classes.At that point, I usually support the idea of warming up my classes for the first five
minutes of the lesson. While warming up,
-You can just pick up one of the popular issues which might be related to their area of interest
to make them talk about it. (it could be about famous singer, writer or popular
movie,book…etc)
-If you teach some specific subject the day before, you can make revision of the words or
tenses and maket hem use the new things in their sentences. (If you teach past tense the day
before, you can ask your students what they did the previous week?
-Have your own questions related to your subject of the day in your pocket. (If you are going
to talk about family members , you can ask your students about their family.)
What kind of warm-up strategies do you hav e for your classes?
I am looking forward to hearing from you all…..
I happen to be a warm-up activity fan and one of my favourite ones of revising new words,
especially phrasal verbs, is, what I call Jigglypuff ( you may as well call it any other nonsense
name as long as it is funny:-)
At the very beginning of the lesson the students are given 1-2 minutes to revise the words
they learnt the previous lesson. After I make sure they have all shut their books (no
peeking!), they are put in pairs and given a slip of paper on which the new word (noun,verb,
adjective, adverb or phrasal verb) is written. They must not show the word to the class. Their
task is to make up two sentences that would include the word jigglypuff instead of the word on
the slip of paper, but should make it sound clear enough for the rest of the class to guess it.
For instance: if the word on the paper is a phrasal verb to put up with, they could write: I can
hardly jigglypuff with the noise of my next-door neighbours.

2. The students find this exercise quite amusing and the atmosphere in the classroom is quickly
invigorated, which is all I need to carry on with a new lesson;-)
One of the warm-ups I frequently use to revise the vocabulary from the previous lessons
consists of picking a student at random (or better a volunteer) who has to come out and face
the class, with her back to the board. I then write the recently learned word on the board,
which the chosen student cannot see. The rest of the class tries to explain the word by
describing it in their own words.
This exercise can also be done vice-versa: you can whisper the new word to the student, who
then has to explain it to the class - or to his group, in case the class is too big and you have to
divide it into groups. Actually, it is amazing how students like to compete against each other.
However, in this case, one must always try to balance the two groups (if you put more
ambitious or motivated students in the same group the others may be demotivated).
The only pitfall that one can stumble upon is time management. In fact, if one gets carried
away too much the 10-15min warm-up can easily extend and take over half of the lesson!
Warm ups and icebreaking
Submitted by anahit1 on 26 January, 2012 - 21:23
I usually begin my classes with some icebreaking exercise. It motivates the students for
the lesson. They are looking for something new and begin their lesson with full of energy. As
soos as I see my students tired a little, then try to change their mood by any warm up game
or rhyme. Do you use any warm ups during your lessons?
Hi, I totaly agree with you,, I have used more at the beginning of my lessons,too. May be you
want to read my energizers,too. Waiting your comments. Thanks in advance.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/lemanulas/my-joe-energizer
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/lemanulas/please-listenenergetic-music
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/lemanulas/ring-around-rosy
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/lemanulas/tongue-twisters
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