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Hi my name is Jema Perry and welcome to Mooncake, ESL teaching made easy. If
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below and let me know where in the world you are teaching. The warm-up, an essential
part of any ESL lesson. But at times it can be really hard to get students
attention most especially when we're teaching those younger students and this
is because we need to adjust our warm-up to suit the age group that we're
teaching. Although when teaching older students we can use games to get
students engaged and ready for class, when teaching younger students this
simply doesn't work. Songs on the other hand, do. So today I wanted to share a few
songs that I use to help get my two to four year olds warmed up and ready for
English class. So let's get started. Two to four year olds can't concentrate for
too long and they get easily distracted. Ooo shiny thing! So we always need to give
students something to focus on. Now if your class is following another activity
or a bathroom break then you're going to find that students come to class in
drips. If this is the case you need to be ready with an activity to grab students
attention right away as we wait for everybody to sit down. A really easy way
to do this is to have a ball ready and have the whole class chat together. Roll
roll roll the ball roll the ball to Tim roll roll roll the ball roll the ball to
Sarah.. Now you don't need to do this with every student but you'll find that the
possibility of having a ball roll to them get students very excited. Next we
need to have a chat and some TPR to let everyone know we're about to start class.
Now you could do that chant all day... like literally they love it that you could do
it all day... But once you do have students attention you can begin the warm-up
and the best way to warm up students at this age group is with a song. Now
although there are loads of songs out there with music I highly recommend
singing a cappella with your students. No matter how bad a singer you think you
are your class will love the rhythm and the rhyming of the song regardless. Now
the reason the singing a cappella is so useful is because we can adjust the
lyrics to suit any subject that you might be teaching. Let's start with a
simple hello song and I can show you what I mean.
Hello song with body parts review. This first song is super simple and can be
used to review body parts. Everybody put your hands in the air, your hands in the air. your hands in the air
Everybody put your hands in the air and say hello to Sarah, hello Sarah. Once
you sing the song through ask a student to name a different body part and sing
again. Everybody put your head in the air heads in the air heads in the air.
Everybody put your heads in the air and say hello to timothy hello to Timothy!
Just be prepared because at some point a child's going to choose to put their
butt in the air. Quick hello song. Now if your class isn't very long or if you
don't want to spend too long on a warm-up then this quick hello song is a
great way to get your students engaged. hello Jimmy, hello Jimmy
hello Jimmy it's nice to see you who's next.
hello Sarah, hello Sarah, hello Sarah nice to see you who's next? Sing the song
through again and again until you've said hello to all the students. Nursery
rhymes. Nursery rhymes are another fun way to warm up your class and again they
can be adjusted to add in some review to your warm-up. Just make sure you've got
some TPR prepared for the whole song. If you're not sure how to teach TPR and
chants in your classroom then make sure you check out my video on TPR linked
below. hands on your head. Hands on your head.
Hands on your head. Hands on your head. Are you ready?
ba ba black sheep have you any wool? Yes sir yes sir three bags full. One for the
master, one for the Dame and one for the little boy who lives down the lane. You
can sing the song several times through only you can use it to practice colors. baa baa blue sheep have you any wool baa baa red sheep have you any wool
Be sure to explore some different nursery rhymes and think about how you
can change the lyrics to work on students listening skills and practice
and previously taught language points. So there you have it some fun ideas to get
your two to four-year-olds warmed up and ready for English class. If you liked
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