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Warm Up Activities

The document provides examples of warm-up activities that can be used for different age groups of English language learners. For young learners, it suggests games like Pictionary, the alphabet game, and hot potato that focus on vocabulary building. For teenagers, it recommends activities like two truths and a lie, a facts quiz, and reconstructing mixed-up questions. For adults, the document proposes a homophone quiz, a storytelling game using "fortunately" and "unfortunately", and a round-robin storytelling activity.

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Warm Up Activities

The document provides examples of warm-up activities that can be used for different age groups of English language learners. For young learners, it suggests games like Pictionary, the alphabet game, and hot potato that focus on vocabulary building. For teenagers, it recommends activities like two truths and a lie, a facts quiz, and reconstructing mixed-up questions. For adults, the document proposes a homophone quiz, a storytelling game using "fortunately" and "unfortunately", and a round-robin storytelling activity.

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Warm up activities are an important part of the lesson, as


they help students adjust to learning and focus on work.
Also, with the help of warm up activities, the teacher can
memories both vocabulary words and grammar.
Young learners
1. Pictionary
This is a fun warm up game that you can use to focus on a
specific topic, or a range of topics. Simply get together a
list of words or phrases and put them into a hat. Then get a
learner to come to the board, pick one of these out of the
hat, and give them a certain time limit to draw the word or
phrase they’ve picked. The rest of the class then has to
guess what it is they’re trying to draw. Whoever guesses
correctly gets a point, and the learner doing the drawing
also gets a point if their word or phrase is correctly
guessed.
2 . The alphabet game
Pick a topic. Then get a learner to start with the letter ‘a’
and see if they can think of a word for that topic that
either starts with that letter, or contains it. Then the next
learner has to think of a word for that topic starting with
‘b’, and so on. See how far you can get in the alphabet
before running out of words. A great game for building
vocabulary, and particularly good for small classes as
everyone will get multiple turns. Finding a word that starts
with that letter offers more of a challenge, so you could
always start with that and then if learners are struggling
too much, switch to finding words that just contain that
letter.

3. Hot potato
In this game you pass around an object- this could be a
potato, or equally, it could just be a rubber or a pencil
sharpener, anything that you have to hand. Set up a timer
in your classroom. As each learner passes around the ‘hot
potato’, they have to think of a word or phrase for a
particular topic you’ve chosen. As soon as they’ve thought
of one, and you approve, they can pass the ‘hot potato’ on.
Whoever is holding it when the time goes off is out. (No
potatoes were harmed during the making of this activity.)

Teenagers
1. Two truths and a lie
This is a particularly great game to play with small classes
as it helps them get to know each other better. Learners in
a small class will also be more inclined to get involved,
asking more questions as they’ll have less of an audience.
This game allows learners to practise speaking skills and
explore different vocabulary. It’s a great icebreaker activity
for the start of a lesson at the start of a new year, but
equally, you can break it out whenever you want a bit of
fun in your learning.
2. What do you know about bananas?
Set a five-minute time limit and in groups have students
think up and write down as many facts as they can about
bananas (or cats, Belgium, David Beckham, etc.). One
point should be given for each true sentence.

This exercise will help students remember grammar,


vocabulary and more confidently describe any subject.
3. Mixed-up question
It’s always good to start the class with a question. Write a
good one on the board but mix up the word order, then
challenge students to reconstruct the question and then
discuss it in pairs or small groups. For example: most item
you have the ever expensive what’s bought?
Various subjects are suitable for this task. Students can
recall the construction of the question. also ask each other
questions that will help students get to know each other
better. Any grammar can be substituted for the
construction of the question. (Tenses)
Adults

1. Homophone Quiz
Say a word from a list of homophones and challenge
students to write both (or more) forms of the word.
Possible words
include: bear,bare,piece,peace,not,knot,here,hear,witc
h,which,flower,flour,would,wood,be,bee,heal,heel,soul,
sole,air,heir,break,brake,mist,missed,read,red,board,b
ored,buy,bye,pair,pear,male,mail,jeans,genes,not,knot,
where,wear,so,sew,sow
2. Fortunately / Unfortunately
English learners often have trouble remembering and
correctly pronouncing these two useful words. One
way to practice it is to start a story and have learners
alternately advancing the story using these adverbs.
For example: Teacher: Yesterday my car was
stolen. Student A: Fortunately, it was insured. Student
B: Unfortunately, the insurance company went
bankrupt. Student C: Fortunately, my grandfather said
he would buy me a new car. Student D: Unfortunately,
he’s lost his mind and doesn’t have any money.
3. Tell a story
This is another circle game. Going around the class
students take it in turns to add three words to your
story stem. You could start it off with relatively
mundane stems such as Yesterday I went …, If I won
…, I have never or something more imaginative like, A
wolf howled, the rocket landed …, Princess Martha
kissed … Write the story on the board and elicit
corrections as you go along.

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