WARM-UP EXERCISES TO START THE LESSON

Warm up exercises are activities for the beginning of the lesson to introduce the students to the language or evoke their interest to the lesson. It's a very good idea to begin your lesson with a warming up activity as children don't feel stressed and are slowly introduced to the topic.

What warm up activities can there be?

1. Listen to the answer, give a question
The idea is simple, the teacher gives an answer instead of a question. Students have to say the question.
- I'm 12. 
- No, I don't.
- Tea, please.
When students do this kind of exercise for the first time, they are a bit perplexed, but very soon they get the idea.


2. Definition
The teacher gives a definition, the students have to guess what it is.

3. Exchange the places

All students stand. The teacher starts giving sentences:
- I like asparagus.
- I've got long curly hair.
-I can't stand fish.
- My birthday is in November.
All that comes to your mind or is connected with your lesson. The task of the students is to exchange places with somebody else for whom this sentence is also true. My students like it a lot.

4. Stand up if....
Students have to do the action if the sentence you say is true about them.
-Stand up if ...
- Turn around 360 degrees if...
- Wave if...
- Put both hands in the air if ...
- Shout 'yes' if...
- Sit down if ...
- Stomp your feet if...
- Clap your hands 3 times if ...

5. A picture through a hole
Prepare a picture that describes the topic of today's lesson. Take a piece of paper, make a key-hole in the middle and place it on the picture. Suggest guessing what the picture shows. You can move the key-hole around the picture, asking what they can see. In the end show the picture.

6. A word cloud
 Make a word cloud and let the students read the words and guess the lesson's topic. In my next post I'll describe how you can do a word cloud.
You can print the word clouds out or simply write the words  on the board in different colours and directions.

7. Draw a picture
Ask your students to draw all they hear. It should be a sketch only. The teacher gives the sentences on the topic and checks in this way what vocabulary they already know.

8. Touch in the sack.
Put into the sack objects connected with your topic. Let the children touch them not looking at them. Ask them to guess what you are going to talk about.


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