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you're teaching. So you're trying to plan a fun warm-up game for. your online ESL
lesson. One that will help you capture students attention and review some
previously taught material. Well today I'm sharing three quick and easy warm-up
ideas that you can try with your class tomorrow. So without further ado, let's
get started with today's first game What Is That? For this activity all you're gonna
need is a digital whiteboard or a small portable whiteboard that you can draw on
To get started, explain to students that you're going to draw a picture and that
they have to guess what it is they think you're drawing. What are you drawing? What
are you drawing? What are you drawing? Ready Steady Go!
Next we're gonna start to draw a picture of a word students have previously
learned, but try to draw it in different parts so it's much harder for students
to guess what it is. Dog, cat, do you know yet, are you ready?
Triangle oh cat, cat, what is it? banana! Notice how that student
is just shouting out random words? So we need to teach students how to guess
using a sentence. Apple! Ask me... When students have guessed correctly, have
them use that word in a sentence. You can even add in some extra language points
here by having students tell you.. I guessed right!
The Shy Puppet. For this activity all you gonna need is a puppet which can easily
be bought online or if you are feeling creative you can also make puppets at
home. Or you can buy some googly eyes and just use your hand. To get started we're
going to introduce that puppet to our students. Now, depending on the student
that you're teaching you might want to make your puppet shy or even a bit
naughty. Try think about the best puppet character for the student that you're
teaching. Next we're going to use that puppet to start practicing some
introduction questions with our students. I know, everybody let's say hello rabbit, hello rabbit
1 2 3 ok Hello rabbit! Hello everybody.
What's your name? What's your name? Now if you're not the kind of teacher that
feels comfortable making silly puppet voices, then you can make your puppet shy
and just have him whisper into your ear instead of talking out loud.
oh it's rabbit, say hello rabbit Oh
rabbit says what's your name? What's your name? Keep practicing some different
review questions until you're ready to say goodbye and move on to the next
activity. Using puppets works really well because it really captures students
attention and they can be lots of fun.
Puppets especially work well with those younger students or students who might
be a little bit shy. But to help keep the illusion, it's important that we're
keeping eye contact with the puppet when we're speaking to it and that the puppet
keeps eye contact with the camera when speaking to students. It's also really
important that when we're finished using the puppet we say bye-bye and take it. off camera
rather than just like throwing them on the table. Ok and say bye-bye
rabbit, bye-bye rabbit... All right great, Ok moving on. For this
next activity or all you're going to need is a puppet and some flashcards of
the vocabulary you'd like to review. To get started, explain to students that
silly puppet has some fun pictures that they would like to share. Next show one
picture either on your digital whiteboard or by holding a flash card up
to the camera. Next, silly puppet is going to introduce
that word by mispronouncing the initial sound of the word. Okay Sharon are you
ready? Are you ready? One, two, oh! Now it's very important that you're using review
words and not new words for students. Otherwise students won't know that these
words are being pronounced incorrectly. Your students should then recognize that
the word is being mispronounced, bursts into fits of laughter and then say the
word correctly. You can then guide students to say: no no no no no no no no
no no no it's not bog, it's dog! Let's tell silly rabbit,
are you ready? Keep going again and again until you've
reviewed all the words you wanted to practice or students are ready to move
on to the next activity. So there have it, three quick and easy warm-up ideas that
you can try with your online class tomorrow. If you like this video then
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