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LEARN ENGLISH TV! with Palm Tree Teaching

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WARM UP ACTIVITIES FOR ENGLISH CLASS │TEACHING ENGLISH

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HEY WATCH THIS VIDEO FOR YOUR PLANNINGS!

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ESL Warm Ups! No Preparation Needed! With Resources

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1. Students will be given a list of words to read outside of the classroom and then tell the rest of their peers in the classroom that the group with the most right answers will be the winner.

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1. Students will be given a list of words to read outside of the classroom and then tell the rest of their peers in the classroom that the group with the most right answers will be the winner.

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Kids English Theatre - How to Teach ESL Drama

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Easy Warm-Up Game For ESL | Circle Cross Movement Game for Young English Language Learners

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Warm up game: 'Volcanoes & ice-creams' (K-6) | Teaching Fundamentals of PE

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Verbs | Fun With Charades | English Grammar For Kids | 7 to 8 Years | Roving Genius

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All about me                                   Break   students into pairs and tell them that they have one minute to talk about themselves. They can choose what they want to discuss, such as something they like, where they live, their birthday, how old they are, their hobbies, and so on. When the time is up, their partner talks about himself or herself. After these two minutes, switch up the pairs and start over. Continue swapping partners each round until everyone has talked with every classmate. If you are teaching English online and cannot split students into pairs, simply give them each one minute to address the whole class.Teen ESL conversation activity

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All about me                                   Break   students into pairs and tell them that they have one minute to talk about themselves. They can choose what they want to discuss, such as something they like, where they live, their birthday, how old they are, their hobbies, and so on. When the time is up, their partner talks about himself or herself. After these two minutes, switch up the pairs and start over. Continue swapping partners each round until everyone has talked with every classmate. If you are teaching English online and cannot split students into pairs, simply give them each one minute to address the whole class.Teen ESL conversation activity

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1. Spelling Ball

This game is as simple as ABC. Have your students stand in a big circle. Say a word and toss the ball to one of your students. Student says the first letter of the word and tosses the ball to a classmate, who has to say the second letter, and then tosses the ball to another. Students who make a mistake must sit down and play starts again with the teacher. The last student standing is the winner!

2. Shoot for Points
Set up a trash can, bin, or any container that will serve as your “basket”. Students line up. Choose a topic or grammar point, for example Past Simple. Ask each student a question: Where did you go last weekend? If student uses the verb in simple past correctly, they may shoot for points: 10 points if they score; 5 if they miss, but answered the question correctly.

3.Choose Your Victim

This is a great way to make a Q &A session more “active”. Students stand in a circle. Give them a grammar point to practice through questions, for example, tell them to ask questions with “ever” so they practice Present Perfect. First student asks a question with “ever” (Have you ever been to London?) and tosses the ball to a classmate who must answer correctly to stay in the game and earn the right to ask a question. Those who make a mistake must leave the circle.

4. Freeze!
This game is ideal for little ones! Practice vocabulary with flashcards. First, teach students the meaning of “Freeze!” as stop. Students sit in a wide circle with a set of flashcards in the center. Students pass the ball around the circle. Tell them they can’t hold the ball for more than a second. Cover your eyes while they do this and say, “Freeze!” The student who has the ball must stop and take a flashcard from the pile. Depending on your students’ ages and level, ask them to either say the word or use it in a sentence.

5.It’s a bomb!

This is a great way for students to introduce themselves and learn their classmates’ names in a first lesson. Also a fun way to practice or review possessive pronouns! Have students sit in a circle. Give one of them the ball, and say, “It’s a bomb! The timer is ticking (use an egg timer!)” Tell them they have to say their name, pass the ball, and say their classmate’s name: My name is Juan. Your name is Maria. The student who has the “bomb” when the timer goes off, leaves the circle. Have students re-arrange themselves in the circle so they’re sitting next to different students, and start again.*

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Frank     Warn up based in  a Grammar lesson.

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Sentence scramble

For this  warn  up activity, you can divide the students into small groups or pairs or they can work on their own. Come up with a few sentences before class, and write the sentence’s words on your physical or virtual whiteboard in a random order. The first group or individual student to unscramble the words and read the sentence aloud correctly wins that round. When creating the sentences, you can use motivating mottos, the target language of the day, or review a grammar point from a previous lesson.

The  purpose of this warn  up  activity is motivate  the students  in where they can use  their  previous knowlege  about  grammar  and vocabulary. It permits   students´ competition  among them

Examples.

1-   Read    they,  intructions, did not=  they did not read the intructions

2  He    house , cleans,  yesterday , the= He  cleans the house yesterday.

3-   They   read did the  intructions =  Did they read the intructions?

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There many warm up activities, but we need to adapt those activities according the level  of the our students. In this case a propose a an activity were I use a picture to how to the students. The pciture should be realted with the content and the grammar of the class. The aim of this activity is to show the picture to meke students produce ideas and guess what will be the topic about. The teacher can write all the ideas in the board and create a mind map with the students ideas. This acivity call students attention beceause they get interested in the topic.

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Vocabulary games such as verb charades are a fun and high-energy way to build vocabularies, expand knowledge of synonyms and reinforce comprehension skills. This is a great game to play daily for 10 minutes, or when you have some free time.

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20 Questions
One person thinks of an object (person, place, or thing). Everyone takes turns asking yes/no questions until someone can guess correctly (or until 20 questions are asked). The difficult part is that you cannot ask "wh" questions!
Example: PINEAPPLE. Does it talk? No. Does it make life easier? No. Do you eat it? Yes. Is it something you would eat for dinner? No. Etc...
If someone makes a mistake in forming the question, other club members can help turn it into a proper question.

Can't Say Yes or No
In this game everyone is given a certain number of coins or squares of paper (about 10). Everyone moves around the room starting conversations and asking each other questions. The only rule is that you cannot say the words YES or NO. If you accidentally say one of these words, you have to give a coin or square to the person who you said it to. Try to trick each other by asking questions that you would almost always answer with a yes or no. Think of other ways to trick your friends. Sometimes asking two quick questions in a row works well. (Especially tag questions: Are you new here? This is your first time in America, isn't it?). This game is a great way to practise using small talk and to add variety to your vocabulary. It also makes everyone laugh.

Fact or Fiction
In this game, one person tells a short story about themselves or someone they know or heard about. Usually it is something funny or crazy. It can be a true story, or something made up.
Example: Josh tells a story about his Uncle Leo who sleeps in the nude. One day Uncle Leo was sleepwalking and he went outside and took his dog for a walk. The next door neighbour was coming home late from work and saw him! She called the police and he got arrested for being naked in public.
Everyone around the room has to say whether they think Josh's story is fact (true) or fiction (made up). Josh reveals the truth when everyone has guessed. Members can take turns telling a story.

Chain Fairytale
This is a fun writing warm-up. Everyone has a piece of paper and writes the first sentence or two to start a fairytale (not one that already exists).
Example: Once upon a time there was a frog that had no legs. He wanted to get married, but there were no female legless frogs in the land.
After one minute the leader will say "SWITCH". At this time the writers have to put down their pens and pass the papers. They cannot finish their sentences. Then, the next writers will continue the story. After about ten minutes you will have as many silly stories to read as you have club members. The leader should warn the writers that they will soon have to wrap-up the story during the last two minutes so that each story has a conclusion. Read all of the stories out loud for a good laugh. You can extend this activity by trying to edit each other's writing and spelling errors.

Draw the Picture
In this activity members split up into pairs or small groups. One person looks at a scene from a magazine or book (the leader should cut out enough pictures, or bring in enough magazines for the club). The other person has a pencil and a blank piece of paper. The person with the picture will try to describe everything he sees to the drawer. This is good practice for using prepositions of place. When the describer is finished, compare the drawings to the real thing! Whose is the closest to the original?

Categories
For this game, one person thinks of a category, such as MOVIES. In a circle, everyone must take a turn thinking of a Movie title (in English of course). If someone takes too long to give an answer (the leader should count to five) then that person is out and a new category begins. If someone gives an answer that doesn't make sense or is incorrect, he is also out of the game. For example, if the category is VEGETABLES and someone says "banana" that person is out. The game continues until only one person is left!

Who am I?
In this game, the leader prepares cards with famous people's names on them. The leader tapes one card on the back of each member. Then everyone pretends they are at a party and asks each other questions to find out their own identities. When someone guesses their own name correctly, the name-tag gets taped to their front and they continue to chat with the party guests until everyone is wearing the nametag on the front.

Jeopardy
In this game, which is based on the famous gameshow Jeopardy, everyone writes down ten answers to questions about themselves. After writing down the answers, people have to form pairs or small groups and try to find out what the questions are.
Example: (answer = purple) "What is your favorite colour?" "Blue." "What colour do you hate?" "Green." "What colour is your underwear?" "Purple!" You can stop at three guesses if you want, or keep going until someone in the club can guess the question.

Hot Seat
In this game, the club is split up into two teams. One member from each team sits facing the group. The leader holds up a word (or writes it on the board if you are in a classroom) for all of the team members to see except for the two players in the hot seats. The teams must try to get the person in the hot seat to guess the word or phrase. The first person to guess correctly gets to stand up and a new member from their team takes the hot seat. The person on the other team has to remain in the hot seat until she gets an answer first. You can keep score or just play for fun. This game can also be played in pairs. One pair member closes their eyes while the leader shows the word to the other pair members. The first pair to get the word right gets a point. Warning! This is a loud game because people tend to get excited and yell!

Broken Telephone
This is a listening and pronunciation activity that always gets people laughing. The leader first must think of a sentence or phrase and whisper it to the person beside her. That person will then whisper what she heard to the next person. Each person can only say, "Can you please repeat that?" one time. When the message reaches the end of the chain that person must speak out loud. Oftentimes the message will be completely different when it reaches the end. Try to find out where the chain broke! In a big group you can send the message two ways and find out which team comes closest to the real message. (A famous example is the army message that started as "Send reinforcements, we're going to advance" and ended as "Send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance.")

Here are some more ESL activities.

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Warm-up Activities for an English Club | EnglishClub

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Ideas for quick warm-up activities for use with any English club or class. Useful for ESL teachers.

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Tell your favorite movie and draw a character

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Factors That Influence Choice of Language Variation

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Factors That Influence Choice of Language Variation

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The factors that influence a speaker's or writer's choice of language vary, and they include the context that surrounds the speaker or writer, the age, gender, culture, etc. Very often, the choice of language is conscious, and the speaker can switch the language choice depending on such factors.

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Topic: Family tree
A classic ESL activity for this unit is get students to make a family tree. Many textbooks will have this kind of chart in them or you can print a simple one off the Internet. Finally, you could show some examples to the students and have them draw their own. It’s also a great idea.
We can show them a short video about family members before to begin the vocabulary about Family members.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K79wMxowLic

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Family Tree For Kids | My Family Tree 🌳| Family Members | School Project | #PantsBear

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We write the questions on the balls,and the students read and answer.

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We write the questions on the balls,and the students read and answer.

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Students have to guess what is the place in the community as the picture is revealed.

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Places Around Town | ESL Vocabulary Game | Buildings and Places

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Board Race

Board Race is a fun game that is used for revising vocabulary, whether it be words from the lesson you’ve just taught or words from a lesson you taught last week. It is a great way of testing what your students already know about the subject you’re about to teach.

Why use it? Revising vocabulary; grammar

Who it's best for: Appropriate for all levels and ages

HOW TO PLAY:

Split the class into two teams and give each team a colored marker.

If you have a very large class, it may be better to split the students into teams of 3 or 4.

Draw a line down the middle of the board and write a topic at the top.

The students must then write as many words as you require related to the topic in the form of a relay race.

Each team wins one point for each correct word. Any words that are unreadable or misspelled are not counted.

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TEFL LIKE A PRO: Teaching English Grammar with Board Races - TEFL ESL

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Charades                                   Students take turns acting out a word provided by you while their classmates try to guess what it is. This is a good opportunity to review vocabulary from a previous lesson or to try and introduce a new word. Young learners become really immersed in this activity and they usually try very hard to act out the word’s meaning.  

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Charades                                   Students take turns acting out a word provided by you while their classmates try to guess what it is. This is a good opportunity to review vocabulary from a previous lesson or to try and introduce a new word. Young learners become really immersed in this activity and they usually try very hard to act out the word’s meaning.  

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Kids repeat key words about body parts and mimic what the teacher does.

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Kids repeat key words about body parts and mimic what the teacher does.

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NEW WARM UP - BODY PARTS - ESL WARMER - ESL teaching tips

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All about me                                     Break students into pairs and tell them that they have one minute to talk about themselves. They can choose what they want to discuss, such as something they like, where they live, their birthday, how old they are, their hobbies, and so on. When the time is up, their partner talks about himself or herself. After these two minutes, switch up the pairs and start over. Continue swapping partners each round until everyone has talked with every classmate.         

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All about me                                     Break students into pairs and tell them that they have one minute to talk about themselves. They can choose what they want to discuss, such as something they like, where they live, their birthday, how old they are, their hobbies, and so on. When the time is up, their partner talks about himself or herself. After these two minutes, switch up the pairs and start over. Continue swapping partners each round until everyone has talked with every classmate.         

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This is a game that will wake them up and will surely excite them and they want more. It is good to use as it helps in listening comprehension and learning vocabulary.

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Warming up activity for a weekly  Lesson Planning

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To play, tell everyone to stand up for yes (or true), and sit down for no (or false). You then ask closed questions or make true/false statements for the students to respond to. You can use flashcards, picture differences, general knowledge, or another set of information like a timetable.

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Topic: Farm animals.
grammar: Simple present tense.
warm up: Pictionary
Pictionary requires no communication and will work with the students drawing a representation of the animal,or action on their chosen card/paper from the hat.

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I would paste pictures of places in the community and students have to make sentences using simple present tense to describe it in order to mark cross or zero.

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Linguish ESL Games // Tic Tac Toe // LT10

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Color [Kids Vocab] 🎨 Fun Color Mixing & Rainbow Words for Kids

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I often use the memory game as an introduction to the past tense. We do the activity which requires the use of there is and there are and then later in the class, when everything has been packed away, I ask them to again try to recall all the items they had seen. This time eliciting and using there was and there were.

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WARM UP ACTIVITIES
A warm -up is a gentle, slow exercise at the beginning of a workout which prepares muscles, the heart rate, blood pressures and body temperature for physical activity.

This video shows 4 fun vocabulary games and activities (including Pictionary) to review new words. They are very easy and do not need preparation. All activities are perfect for ESL students. It is important that each student follows the instructions, they should only pay attention to the teacher to participate.

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Vocabulary Revision Games & Activities! ESL

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📢Tell your favorite movie and draw a character or icon❄️,💤,🧜.

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The Warm Up Song | Kids Exercise Videos | The Mini Monstars

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Warm up activities

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Warm up action activities [kindergarten]

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Warm up activity!

Question time!

Have all students stand up.

Ask them questions like "How is the weather? What time is it? Which superhero wears the colors red and blue? What did I have for breakfast today? and so on".

Let students raise their hand who first gets it has a chance to answer. If the answer is wrong, the next student to raise his/her hand follow the activity and so on. If the answer is correct, that student gets to sit down. The goal is to not be the last student standing!

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Objective: Memorize and use different words with one letter.

The ship Comes loaded Game:
How to Play?
1- Ask the students to  sit in a circle.
2- Choose with the students any letter from the alphabet. For example letter "B"
3- Start the game by saying " A ship comes loaded"
4- One of the students should ask " with what". Then you answer by saying any word that begins with the selected letter of the alphabet. For Example "with bananas"
5- The students must remember the words that have been said previously and add a new word that begins with the selected letter, and they are not allowed to write anything.
6- If a student can not come up with a new word beginning with the selected letter, or can not remember the words that have been said, they are out of the game.

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Warming up activity about numbers and animals.

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Warming up activity about numbers and animals.

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https://youtu.be/3m5RXP6U_EA

This is an activity that helps students of primary school to enhance the learning about numbers and animals.

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NEW WARM UP - Magic Fingers - ESL warmer - ESL Ice breaker - ESL Teaching tips

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01 - Hot potato game| ESL flashcard game | Muxi ESL

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Student will sing the song of the color. They repeat the different color and so they learn new vocabulary

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I DID THIS WARN UP WITH MY STUDENTS AND ITS VERY COOL.

THE TEACHER AT THE VIDEO MENTION THE RULES.
THE OBJECTIVES ARE: RELIEVE TENSIONS, CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT OF JOY AND NATURALITY.

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ACTIVIDAD: Dinámica de Motivación "La cola de Vaca"

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Scrambled Sentences - 3-Word English Sentences | English Challenge | Toffee TV

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The students can learn the animals while they are singing this song and teachers can adapt it according to what they want to teach.

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Suitable for: kindergarten to adolescents
Use: icebreaker/warmer/time-filler/vocab practice

Students stand in a circle or just stand up where they are (depending on the layout of your classroom). You can also play this game with a ball or without one.

You can start the game for the first time by giving a student any letter in the alphabet, e.g. “i”. Pass the ball to a student, then they have to say a word that starts with that letter, e.g. “ice”. The next student then gives a word that starts with the last letter of “ice”, e.g. “egg”. And so the game continues.

You can also play different variations with the game, e.g. a student needs to give words that are longer than three letters, it should be related to a theme, all words should be verbs, etc.

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these warm up activities introduce the students into learning English and give them a mental break and motivate them to participate.

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I DID THE HOOP CHAIN TOO

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Suitable for: elementary students to adults
Use: icebreaker/conversation practice

This no prep ESL game is especially great if it is your first time teaching a class or if the whole class is new and students should get to know each other.

You can come up with three questions, such as “What’s your name?”, “Where are you from?”, and “What is your favourite book?” If needed, you can write these on the board. Students stand in two lines, facing each other. Once you say, “Go”, the students on one side of the line start asking the person opposite them the questions. Once the first pair of students is done asking each other, they say, “Switch”, and one line of students move one space down. And so the activity continues.

Rather than just an icebreaker or getting-to-know-you type of activity, use this for conversation practice with students asking and answering questions or practicing dialogue related to the topic, for example, ordering food in a restaurant, where one line of students are the ‘waiter’ and the other the ‘customers’.

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Icebreakers & Warm-Up Activities - "Line Up"

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Pass the ball around the circle or class without dropping the ball.

If someone drops it, they sit in the center (“hot potato soup” pot).

After the end of each round, increase the speed that the ball is tossed around the circle.

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Peel Banana - Warm Up  for your Class or Home - ESL Teaching Tips - Mike's Home

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Vocabulary race (15-20 minutes)

Vocabulary warm-up activities are a great way to elicit vocabulary from a class and introduce a topic. Tell students you are going to show them an image and that they will need to list as many words connected to the picture as they can. Show them an example image first. If the example image is a photo of a kitchen, you could ask “What can you see?” and write up words such as “sink”, “washing machine”, “kettle”…

Explain that the team with the most words will win and that they have to write the words down for them to count as points. Then, divide students into pairs and give them the picture (sent to their breakout room chat online, face to face as a print-out or on the IWB (interactive whiteboard)). Give them a time limit of 5 minutes or more.

When the time is up, students total up their words. The winning team has the most words! Afterwards, go around the class, giving each pair a turn to say one of their words. Write the words on the board until all the words have been written up.

For higher levels, your examples could include multiple words, for example, “linoleum floor”, “tea towel”. You could make it more interesting by explaining beforehand that if they think of a word that another team didn’t think of, that it will count as 2 points. This will encourage them to stretch themselves and even get creative. Remind them that all vocabulary must be visible, so they can’t say “cliché housewife with a feather duster” unless there is one pictured!

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2 Vocabulary games for all topics & lessons! ESL

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Play with other objects, such as a bean bag or frisbee to change the challenge.

Play a short song while the object is being passed. Whoever has the object at the end of the song goes into the center of the circle.

With younger players K to first grade, sit in a circle; start out first handing, then rolling a ball, then transition into tossing.

If you do not have music… Players sit in a circle and pass a ball in one direction. Players should pass the ball as quickly as possible with out throwing or dropping it. The whole group says the verse as the ball is passed. The player holding the ball when the verse ends must do.

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Warming up activity about Extended family

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Warming up activity about Extended family

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In this activities students practice by talking about different members of the family. Students play a fun family photos game, make a family tree poster, make and play with finger puppets, sing a song and read a funny story.

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Extended Finger Family | Finger Family Song | Family Song for Kids | Kindergarten Song | JunyTony

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It's an activity that encourages teamwork and communication. Students will repeat what the teacher says but will always do the opposite. For example, if the teacher says left, the whole group must say left, but go right, and if one of the group makes a mistake everyone fails. So, they win together or lose together. Also, it helps them focus on the details.

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Class Warm Up for All Ages & Levels! + free downloadable slides || ESL

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No one rolls out of bed and starts running a marathon without warming up. Why? Because your muscles wouldn't be warm enough for you to safely perform your best. Similarly, failing to start a lesson with a warm-up doesn't allow students time to exercise their brains and start thinking about the topic.

Lesson warm-ups are important for helping students move into a learning frame of mind where they can effectively focus, participate and learn. Here's what all teachers should know about lesson warm-ups, and how to plan them.

What is a Lesson Warm-Up?

Put simply, a lesson warm-up is an activity that helps get students in a learning frame of mind. Warm-ups, or warmers, are any activity completed at the beginning of class specifically intended to prepare students for learning, explains British Council's TeachingEnglish. Warm-ups should be short, yet dynamic activities.

Warm-ups activities help students shift their frame of mind into the subject they're about to learn. ESL educator Kristina Lim says warm-ups are important for an foreign language classroom to do because students may not have used that language at home or at all that day so far. It takes time and mental stimulation to start thinking about the world in another language, so a warm-up activity effectively supports this transition.

It's best to complete warm-up activities in the first five minutes of class, explains the team at Busy Teacher. Warm-ups should also involve participation, as the goal is to boost student confidence in their own learning. The best warm-ups involve some form of collaboration and inspire students to either think about a new topic, or consider a previously-learned topic in a new way.

Why Do Lesson Warm-Ups Matter?

Lesson warm-ups are also important because they enable students to shift into the thinking, reasoning and learning frame of mind they need to succeed in school. Warm-ups are also a great way to spark conversation and discussion, explains elementary resource designer, Alyssa Roetheli. "These questions or prompts provide students with the opportunity to explore the content either through research, conversation with their peers, or a class discussion. It is often these questions that may spark an interest or passion in students that they want to pursue further."

Lesson warm-ups are also important for reiterating previous lessons and reinforcing important concepts in student minds. Roetheli points out that students need to hear concepts three to five times before they really stick, so warm-ups provide another opportunity for these lessons to stick.

Another benefit of warm-ups is that they help ease student anxiety on the day of a big test or project. For example, teacher Sylvia Cossar suggests a game called bananas, where one student asks questions at random at the other student can only answer with bananas.

"The purpose of the game is to not laugh, as the first one to laugh loses. Of course, this makes the students laugh that much more, and the result is a reduction of stress and test anxiety," she writes.

Additionally, warm-ups are important for morning classes where students may be groggy from sleep, or distracted by the events of the morning. A warm-up activity helps them ease into the classroom and the expectation of learning in a low-key way that isn't stressful. Plus, this helps the non-morning people catch up to the same level as the early rises, Cossar adds.

For older students and more advanced subjects, warm-up activities are a chance to make math problems less abstract so that important concepts are more approachable. It also makes students more comfortable and confident about asking questions and speaking in the math classroom, says eighth grade math and science teacher David Gillingham.

He says warm-ups foster "an understanding that math is a collaborative process where we generate and build on diverse ideas, and where challenges are opportunities to learn from each other."

Lesson Warm-Up Ideas for Teachers

There are many ways you can warm up student minds and introduce them to the topic. Retired ESL teacher Revel Arroway suggests that your warm-up could involve physically warming up students through stretching and bending exercises. This can boost blood flow to their brains, release tension and improve alertness. Or, you might use music or a game to engage students in a fun, active way. Another idea is to create a group activity students can engage in together.

The point is that there are many ways to warm up the classroom, and the best activity for your students will depend on the subject and their learning styles. Here are a few specific activities for getting students alert and engaged early on.

Organize Yourselves

This is a great activity for younger students and foreign language class students. It's also effective to use at the beginning of the year when students are still getting to know each other. Students arrange themselves based on similar qualities, says the team at VIP Kid. You can give students one or multiple criteria to follow, such as names, where the students would line themselves up alphabetically.

Picture Warm-Up

This is another activity for younger students and foreign language classes, although it can also help students warm up their creative writing skills. It involves showing students a picture and giving them 30 seconds to describe what they see.

"Make sure it has lots of little details in it, preferably one where you could spend a good minute or so describing every last detail to your friend," suggests teacher Ivan Berezowski. Then, take the picture down and tell the students to describe what they saw to their partner. After that, split the class into two teams and have one student from each team write as many things as they saw in 30 seconds. Points are awarded for every correct detail.

Pick a Side

For a deeper, more thoughtful warm-up appropriate for high school students, consider picking a side. During this activity, teachers choose a debate question or political issue and ask students to consider their stance and pick a side, explains the team at Teaching Channel. It's best to choose issues with two clear sides. Then, students on each side will take turns making an argument as to why they hold that stance and how it relates to the issue.

Study Guide

Time at the beginning of class can be used to create a study guide, which warms students up while also helping them later on. Teacher Jason Deehan says he uses questions from previous classes as a form of review, especially those covered a few weeks ago and may have since been forgotten.

"The students are trained to write down the questions and then answer them completely. These questions and answers will be returned to the students later and form part of their study guide for summative assessments." So, skipping questions or writing incomplete answers will hurt students in the long run, Deehan adds.

Around the World

Math warm-ups are helpful for switching from a different subject into math. Early childhood educator Holly Mitchell suggests a game called "Around the World." In it, students sit in a circle, with one student standing behind a class member. The teacher asks a math question and the student who answers correctly first moves around to the next student in the circle. This is a lighthearted warm-up that gets students into the right frame of mind before their math lesson.
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Lesson Warm-Up: Tips for Getting Students Ready to Learn

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In this activities students will listen carefully to the video and at the end the teacher will ask them questions such as:
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Crossword puzzles are really great for introducing a new theme. not every student will be familiar with crossword puzzles, so make sure to explain well.

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Game "Snowball" for Elementary Students Past Simple warm-up activity

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The game consists of a clean recycled paper ball, the student in turn will pronounce a sentence and analyze if it is said correctly, or if it must be conjugated using the rules to use in this case the simple present past. The team that has the most successes wins, it also serves to review. It helps students to get to know each other, for academic review and to review a quiz or exam. Divide the group into two teams on opposite sides of the room and let the snowball fight begin. It is particularly effective with younger students. When he says, "Stop," each student picks up the nearest snowball and waits for his or her turn to form the snowman or woman, after they have found their snowman or woman they must introduce themselves to the rest of the group. Use this game in a wide range of contexts and for many different purposes. Example: Write review facts about snowballs and ask students to read it aloud, such as "Mark Twain was the author of 'Huckleberry Finn.'" Review questions are written about snowballs and ask students to answer them. Have students stand during exercise, as they will be snowballing throughout the activity, this helps people retain learning, and is a great way to energize a classroom. Post-activity debriefing is necessary only if you are recapitulating or preparing for a test. Ask questions like: Were all topics covered? What questions were the most difficult to answer? Were there any that were too easy? Why? Does everyone have a deep understanding of the subject?
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ESL Warm Up Activities – Easy ESL warm up Activities

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Dance Monkey is perfect for a warm-up to get your heart rate up and ready for physical activity. Remember, you can slow down or speed up the video to appropriately challenge your students. For the Grade-Level Outcomes for Elementary students (K-5th) Standard 1: Demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

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PhysEdZone: “Dance Monkey” PE Dance Fitness Warm-Up | Brain Break