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1) Antes de ler o texto "Developing dynamic Units for EFL", pense em como você prepara/prepararia sua aula. Tome notas das respostas, pois vamos discutir em grupos na reunião.
a) Qual o seu ponto de partida?
b) Qual a sua fonte de referências e materiais?
c) Quais atividades estão, na maioria das vezes, presentes em suas aulas?
2) Antes de ler o texto, o que você acredita que seja Theme-based instruction?

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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.")

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ESL warm-up activities are a great way to start an English class. It is a win-win for both teachers and students.

Teachers can tune themselves in for the upcoming class and buy themselves some time. Students, especially younger ones, can have fun, get to know each other, and learn something new at the same time. Just like athletes need to warm up their muscles before their activities, students need to "warm-up" their brains. The warm-up activities should take about 5 minutes, and you can be taught either by classroom teachers or online ESL teachers.

In this article, we have gathered some engaging, informative, and fun warm-up games for ESL students as well as the warm-up exercises for kids learning languages.

ESL Warm-Up Activities

A-Z Game

Working in teams, students should come up with words that are related to a certain topic and start with each letter of the alphabet, from A to Z. For example, for the "food" topic the words would be "apple", "butter", "cheese", and so on. The winning team of this ESL warmup should complete the entire alphabet first. This can also be done by one student in a tutoring session.

Organize Yourselves

During this group warm-up activity, you should tell your students to arrange themselves according to given criteria, such as age, name, the street where they live, and so on. Students should then have to tell you why they organized this way, using proper grammar.

Make The Longest Words

Write down a word of a minimum of five letters and tell your students to make up words that start with each letter of this word. It is desirable that the word has no repeating letters. The winner or the winning team should make up the longest word. For example TABLE - Terrified, Ambiguous, Blossom, Landscape, Empty. The students can also do the same with the letters of their names. It helps with ESL pronunciation lessons.

Check out these fun pronunciation games and exercises for your ESL students.

Anagrams

Mix up the letters and/or words in a sentence and encourage your students to find the right order and decipher the sentence.

Facts

Give the students any topic and suggest that they write down as many true facts as they know about this topic. For example, they can write down facts about dogs.

Fitting In

Show your students a bowl, a flower pot, a basket or any similar item, and suggest that they name the items that would fit into this bowl/pot/basket.

Odd One Out

Name or write down a range of concepts or items and tell your students to find one concept or item that does not fit in. The odd concepts and items should be somewhat related to other concepts and items in the range, but still, have some slight differences, so they should be not that easy to guess. For example, "table, chair, bed, fridge, sink" - bed is odd because in most cases you cannot find a bed in the kitchen. However, some students could also name the fridge or sink, and it makes this task a bit complicated. You can also encourage the students to make up their own range of concepts or items with odd ones.

Idioms

In this vocabulary warm-up exercise, you should give the students one word and suggest that they think of idioms that contain this word. For example, "blue" - "out of the blue", "feel blue", etc. They can also make up the sentences with those idioms.

Questions

Write down different questions on pieces of paper, put them in a basket, and turn on some music. Ask the students to sit in a circle and hand this basket over to each other until you stop the music. The person who is holding the basket at that moment should take a piece of paper out of the basket and answer the question.

What can you tell about cookies?

Give out cookies or other sweets to everyone, and tell the class to describe the sweets - their color, shape, etc. - and analyze their quality, such as taste, crispiness, etc. They can also tell a story about those sweets.

Categories

The leader thinks of a category, such as "fruit". In a circle, everyone should name a fruit within a limited time period - the leader usually counts to five. If someone takes too long to give an answer or gives an incorrect answer, then that person is out and a new category begins. In the end, only one person remains.

Word chain

The students toss a ball to each other and name the words that start with the last letter of the previous word, forming the chain. For example, "ball" - "lamp" - "pie", and so on.

Empty Comics

Find a comic strip and wipe out the words from the bubbles. The students should guess what the comic characters are saying.

We hope that this list of ESL warm-up activities will help you plan more effective lessons for your students and keep them engaged throughout the entire lesson, even if you teach online. If you're looking for more, check out our guides to fun ESL games and activities, speaking activities and comprehensible input strategies and activities.
Benefits of 5 minutes warmup classroom activities
Here are a few major benefits that will convince you to include 5 minutes warmup classroom activities in your daily lesson plans.

They are a great ice breaker - Warm-up activities can serve as a great ice breaker, which is extremely important when it comes to teaching younger students. Kids can be quite shy and hesitant to participate in a formal classroom setting, therefore, a light warmup activity can get the ball rolling. It can help you make the kids feel more comfortable and before you get on with the more formal teaching methods you can start off the day on a friendly note.

They can help set up the pace for the entire class - Warmup activities can include things that are related to your day's lesson. This way you will give your students an idea of what is to come and get them thinking about how they can add more value to their lesson. You can ask them to guess the topic and what it is about or other similar activities. These kinds of warmup games can spark creativity because the students will feel more involved and motivated to learn more about their lessons.

You can create a better relationship with your students - Warmup activities are usually done in an informal setting, (such as circle time) which allows the students to let their guard down and see the teacher as a friendly person. Once they start to feel comfortable and develop a bond with you, the students may pay more attention to your lesson. They will feel more comfortable to ask questions and participate that will allow them to learn more.

What kind of warm games should you choose for your ESL class?

Yes, warm-up games have plenty of benefits and they are a great way to kick off your class. However, if you do not choose the right kind of games then instead of warming your students up they may get you to a wrong start.

Here are a few things you should consider while choosing a warm-up game/activity for your ESL class:

They should be easy and simple - The purpose of warm-up games is to have an activity that can serve as an ice breaker, make your students comfortable and set a nice tone for the rest of your class. However, if the games you choose are too difficult to understand and follow then your students, instead of getting comfortable, may feel intimidated. Why? Because most of them may not be able not to speak English at all, therefore, a difficult warm-up activity is likely to make them think that learning the English language is not easy.

They should be age-appropriate - Yes, warm-up games can be used for both kids and adults, however, you must choose games that are appropriate for your students. You cannot play extremely childish games with adult students and similarly anything slightly complicated or involving complex writing or reading will not work with kids.

They should not be too long - A warm-up game should not be so long that it does not leave you any time to complete your lesson. Sure, if it is the first lesson of the semester/course then you can have a warm-up game that goes on for more than just five minutes, but for regular classes, a 5-minute game/ activity is more than enough.

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Warm-up activities play a crucial role in the English language classroom. Students often arrive to class feeling tired or preoccupied, making it important to gently transition them into the learning environment rather than diving straight into challenging grammar or vocabulary tasks. A well-designed warm-up can engage students, sparking their interest and encouraging active participation. It can also serve as a review of previously taught material or as an introduction to a new topic. Additionally, these warm-up activities can double as go-to fillers for those moments when your lesson plan wraps up early or unexpected issues arise, ensuring a seamless classroom experience for both you and your adult learners.

The great thing about the activities on this page is that they all require no preparation at all. However, if you keep a copy of our Collaborative Crosswords book in your bag, then you'll have another perfect class-starting activity. These crosswords designed for pair-work are great for introducing a theme and some suitable vocabulary. Read more about these activities here.

Teaching Online

We have an accompanying online-focused website LearnHip where you will discover lots more online activities which work well as warmers and fillers.

No-preparation ESL Warm-up Activities

Below, you'll find a selection of warm-up activities that require no prior preparation. These versatile exercises can also serve as convenient fillers to fill any extra time you might have towards the end of your lesson.

Quick questions

Begin your lesson by writing two or three questions on the board that introduce the theme of the lesson. For example, if your topic is books, you could write: What's your favorite book? What was the last book you read? What kind of books do you prefer? etc. Allow the students 5-10 minutes to discuss the questions in pairs or small groups, and then invite them to share their responses with the class.

If you need inspiration, check out our extensive collection of over 500 themed conversation questions on this page. For even more convenience, these questions are also available in easy-to-use card sets featuring additional exercises in our book, 50 Conversation Classes.

Make the most words

Write a topical vocabulary item on the board. In twos or threes, students make as many new words from it as they can. Use longish seed words such as apologise, dictionary or September. Score teams a point per word and award a bonus point for the longest.

Make the longest words

Write a topical target word vertically down the board, for example, WINTER. In twos or threes, students attempt to come up with the longest word that begins with each letter. Give teams a point per word and a bonus point for the longest. Waterfall Industrious Nausea Terrified Empty Retailer

What does your name mean?

Using a dictionary, google or any other resource, students find and write down an appropriate adjective that begins with each letter of their first name. For example:

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?

Mixed-up question (anagram variation)

Alternatively, write a question on the board but this time scramble the letters of each word. For example: tahw si ruyo seealirt rommey?

Letter string dictation

This is a great way to lead into the topic that you want to cover in the class and also serves as a simple activity to help students recognise letters of the alphabet. Think of a couple of questions for students to discuss in pairs or groups. Write the questions down and then dictate them as a long string of letters. For example: whatsyourfavouritecolour? whatdidyoudoattheweekend? whatkindofbooksdoyouliketoread?

After dictating the letter strings, students should attempt to form the questions and then discuss and report back to class.

For more advanced students try dictating the letters backwards and then have the students decode the question. This is more challenging because students will find it more difficult to predict the next letter and therefore must focus on the letters being dictated. For example: ?teemotekiltsomuoydluowohw

For more ideas on using dictation see the article 10 Dictation Activities.

Hangman

This popular filler can also be a great way to start a lesson with beginner learners who are still unsure of the alphabet. Just put a recently learned word on the board and let the students take it in turns to guess a letter. If you don't know how to play, you can read an explanation here.

Word ladders

In this activity, a word must be transformed step by step into a target word. To illustrate the idea, write the word run on the board and explain that the target word is fit. For each turn, only one letter can be changed. See if the class can find a valid sequence together. Some possible sequences are:

Students will need access to a dictionary in order to check if their words are valid. If you want to find possible word pairs, there is a site with a handy word ladder generator. Put students in pairs and have them create their own word ladders to test their classmates with.

The A to Z game

Give students a theme, for example, jobs, things you take on holiday, food. Write the letters A to Z on the board. Teams of students must race to write an appropriate word next to each letter on the board. Read more about the A to Z game here.

What's the missing word?

Find a group of compound words or collocations which share a common word. For example, bedroom, bathroom, living room, classroom, showroom, etc. Give students one of the word/collocation parts, such as bed and have them guess the missing part, add to the list writing bath, living, class, etc., until they successfully guess the word. Here are some more examples:

ear, boxing, diamond, finger, wedding (ring)

tea, soup, table, dessert (spoon)

kitchen, tea, bath, beach (towel)

green, light, ware, boat, work, wife (house)

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.

Things to do with a potato

One of many brilliantly simple warm up ideas from one of my favourite teaching books. Produce a potato (if that's not possible, introduce the concept of a potato). Ask students to come up with a list of as many unconventional uses for it as they can. For example paperweight, weapon, pen holder, smartphone dock. The longest list wins the potato.

How many sounds can you hear?

Students sit in silence for two minutes and write down every sound that they hear. Let them compare their lists with their neighbours before seeing who has the longest list? If you like this activity try doing a guess the sound quiz.

Odd one out

Give the students a couple of examples to guess, then get students to come up with their own ideas. Here are some examples: apple, peach, banana, tomato - a banana doesn't have seeds strawberry, branch, bowling ball, boat, iceberg - bowling balls don't float window, river, envelope, client, oregano - client doesn't begin and end with the same letter comb, champagne, knife, plum - the word plum doesn't contain any silent letters. Yards, feet, stone, litres. Note: There can be more than one correct answer.

Name ten

Have students think of 10 items that fit particular criteria. For example:

Jobs where you have to wear a uniform

English football clubs

Sports that are played with a ball

Foods that contain egg

Animals that lay eggs

Three letter parts of the body - eye, arm, leg, hip, ear, toe jaw, rib, lip, gum

Two truths and a lie

An ESL classroom staple. Write or dictate three sentences about yourself. Two statements should be true and one false, for example: I used to be an air steward I can ride a unicycle My favourite food is sushi Now invite students to discuss in pairs which statement they think is the lie. Ask each pair which statement they think is untrue and have them explain why. Reveal your answer, and ask students to come up with three sentences about themselves. I find students need quite a lot of time (at least five minutes) to come up with three ideas. If some students are still short of a sentence or two, start the game anyway, and they can finish their statements during play. Check students' statements and then have them take it in turns to read them out to the class. In each case, the other students have to guess which is the untrue statement. See this page for more ideas on using dishonesty for fun and profit.

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,witch,which,flower,flour,would,wood,be,bee,heal,heel,soul,sole,air,heir,break,brake,mist,missed,read,red,board,bored,buy,bye,pair,pear,male,mail,jeans,genes,not,knot,where,wear, so,sew,sow

Mastermind (AKA Bulls & Cows, Jotto, Wordle)

Based on the code-breaking board game where players have to deduce the order of 4 coloured pegs which the other player had hidden behind a plastic guard. It's slightly complicated to grasp but fun when you get the hang of it. Think of a four-letter word and write XXXX on the board, each X represents one of the letters of your word. Invite the first student to guess what the word is. Start a new line underneath your original XXXX. If the first letter in the student's word is the same as the first letter in your word put a ✓ in the first position. If the first letter is not the same as the first letter in your word but is contained somewhere in your word put a half-tick /. If the first letter of the student's word is not contained anywhere your word put an X. In the following example, the teacher chooses the word FIRE. XXXX XXXX - COAT X/XX - BEST X✓X✓ - HIKE /✓X✓ - RIDE ✓✓✓✓ - FIRE A word of warning. Stick to 4 or 5 letter words. It's much more difficult to guess longer words and it can also be tricky trying to mark each guess. When students are familiar with the game you can get them to come and put their own words on the board.

I'm going on a picnic and I'm taking a ...

This is a guess the rule type game. Think of a rule which governs which items can be taken on a picnic, for example, it must be six letters long, or it must start with a vowel. In this example, the rule is that the word must be an uncountable noun. Teacher: I'm going on a picnic and I'm taking milk. Student A: I'm going on a picnic and I'm taking eggs. Teacher: No, you can't take eggs. Student B: Can I take orange juice? Teacher: Yes, you can take orange juice. And so on. Continue adding items to your picnic list until a student correctly guesses the rule (the choices don't have to make sense within the picnic scenario e.g. love, information, air ). When you've finished, invite the students (alone or in pairs) to come up with their own rules and let them run the game.

Word Association

This must be one of the oldest ESL warm-up activities, but sometimes the simplest ideas turn out to be surprisingly effective and word games don't get any simpler than word association. Give an initial word, for example, banana and each student takes it in turns to say a word which they associate with the previous word. If the connection isn't obvious, challenge the student to justify their choice. banana - monkey - zoo - tourists - hotel - bible ...

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.

Party Trick

This is a great way to practise can & can't. Ask the class to think of one thing they can do which nobody else in the class can do. For example a student could ask the class, can you count to ten in Chinese? You could turn it into a knock-out competition - playing until there is one person left standing.

Three things in common

This is a great icebreaker, but you can also use it as a lead-in to a theme or to test your students' knowledge of a grammar point. Simply ask students to work in pairs and find three things that they have in common and then report back to the class. You can narrow the topic down to areas like t hree things we both did at the weekend, three foods we both like, three things we both don't like about this city, three things neither of us has done yet but would like to, etc.

Free Speaking Tic Tac Toe

Similar to the long-running BBC Radio show. Draw a Tic Tac Toe grid on the board and in each space write a topic that you think some of your students might be interested in or have some knowledge of. Play the game with two teams, to claim their X or O, a team member must attempt to talk about the topic in the chosen square for 45 to 60 seconds (depending on their level) without pausing or repetition. Possible topics for your Tic Tac Toe board might include Sport, Breakfast, Smartphones, Family, Movies, Cats, Rock Music, Soap Operas, Chocolate, etc.

One-upmanship

I discovered this great activity at BusinessEnglishResources.com. Start off by explaining the concept of one-upmanship, that some people always like to appear to be more interesting or superior to others in their company. Tell the students a relatively mundane story about something that happened recently and invite a student to tell a similar story but to top it in some way. Each student, in turn, tries to top the previous student's tale. For example: You: Yesterday I overslept and was five minutes late to class. Student: That's nothing, I overslept and was an hour late. Student B: An hour! I once overslept a whole day! If the students are sufficiently advanced you could have them watch and read through Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch which is a very funny skit on the subject of one-upmanship.

Spontaneous Scatter Sheet

Scatter Sheets are a great way to review vocabulary, introduce a theme and get students talking. As a warmer, have students brainstorm words connected to a theme, for example, the seaside, London, marketing, etc. Write these words on the board randomly, not in straight lines or columns but higgledy-piggledy and at jaunty angles. When you have around 20 words on the board, go around the room asking each student, in turn, to describe one of the words, when it's been successfully guessed, circle it and move on to the next student. Encourage students to let the describer produce at least two sentences before shouting out the answer.

Spin the marker

Sometimes students just want a chance to talk and express themselves in an unstructured way and it's a good idea to encourage this. Spin the marker pen and whoever it points to can dictate the conversation, ask questions, suggest the topic, etc. Spin the marker again when you feel the conversation has run its course. I find this activity works best when students are sitting in a small circle not too far apart.

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. Etc.

Organise yourselves!

Have students arrange themselves in order according to a given criterion. For example by age, alphabetical order of first name or surname, the number of shoes owned, etc.

Whose weekend?

Give each student a slip of paper and ask each student to write down three things they did at the weekend. Collect up the slips of paper and randomly read each one out. The students must guess whose weekend is being described.

Provocative statements

Write a provocative statement on the board and then put students into small groups to discuss their opinion of it. For example, some drugs should be legalised, Facebook should be banned, Breaking Bad is overrated, one child is enough, organic food is a waste of money, etc. Have students report back to the class. You could make a list of arguments for and against the thesis.

Draw the kitchen

I often use this when I work in-company. Ask the students to think of a room or area which they are all quite familiar with and then have them guide you as you try to draw a plan of the room on the board. This is great for practising there is and there are as well as prepositions of place and furnishing vocabulary.

The Categories Game

I tend to use this as a filler rather than a warmer. Put students into teams and write on the board six vocabulary categories. Now give them a letter of the alphabet and the teams must race to think of a word beginning with that letter for each category. Writing stops when the first team yells finished! and points are given for each correct answer. See The Categories Game post for a more detailed explanation as well as a list of possible categories.

Compound word quiz

This is a fun little quiz you can do at the beginning of a lesson to get your learner's brains buzzing. Choose five groups of three compound words with the same stem and write them on the board without their stem. For example paste, ache, brush (the stem is tooth) or ball, man, board (the stem is snow). Put them on the board (as below) and give students five to ten minutes to figure out what the missing stem is.

Here are some more examples:

doorbell, doorman, doorstep | headline, headcount, headlight, headset, headhunter | backpack, backseat, backfire | timeline, timetable, timesaver | blackbird, blacklist, blackout | lighthouse, lightbulb, lightweight | daydream, daylight, daytime | nightlife, nightclub, nighttime, nightmare | sunburn, sunset, sunshine, sunrise | waterfall, waterbed, waterproof, waterfront, watercolour | lifeboat, lifetime, lifeguard | paperback, paperwork, paperweight, paperboy/girl

Kim's game

If by rifling through your bag, your pockets and the classroom store cupboard you can come up with about 15 smallish items, you can play an impromptu version of Kim's game. This is a fun memory game which is great for introducing and practising some useful vocabulary, and also for reviewing there is, there are, there was and there were.

Pit Pat Putt

This is a fun pronunciation game for practising tricky vowel sounds. It needs zero preparation, just a board or flip chart. Students practise giving each other their phone number using a code.

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