Hi my name's Jema Perry and welcome to Mooncake where ESL teaching is made
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for weekly ESL teaching tips. Also real quick, if you are new here say hi in the
comments below and let me know where in the world you're teaching. The warm-up
one of the most important aspects of any ESL lesson. The warm-up captures students
attention and engages them ready for their English class. Now, I've talked
about warm-ups in the past for the classroom so if you haven't you can
check out those videos right here. But for online teaching, well, what do we do
for online teaching? Well, for online teaching the warmup is even more
important because students have even more distractions at home that you need
to compete with. So today we're going to look at a fun warm-up activity that you
can try with your online students. So without further ado let's get started.
For this activity, you're not gonna need any materials. Oh cool. So to get started
you're gonna grab students attention with an attention grabber. Now if you
have used attention grabbers in the past, you can use one that students are
familiar with. But also for younger students a simple waving exercise
tends to do the trick. Are you ready? Bye-bye, hello, bye-bye, hello, bye-bye, oh
hello, bye-bye... Next we're gonna transition into the head shoulders elbow
hand song, whilst encouraging students to sing along and do the actions. Hello, are
you ready? Head, shoulders, elbow, hand, elbow, hand.
Head, shoulders, elbow, hand, elbow, hand. And eyes and ears and mouth and nose. Head, shoulders, elbow,
hand, elbow, hand. Yay! Good job! Once again, right away we're gonna transition into
giving students some very simple instructions to follow. Elbow, hands, yay!
Good job! Wiggle, wiggle, Oh wiggle, wiggle. Are you ready? ah touch, touch,
touch your nose, nose, nose, touch your nose. Touch, touch, touch, your mouth, touch
touch, touch, your mouth, mouth, mouth, touch your mouth. Now note the repetition of
the keywords and how slowly I'm talking and carrying out that TPR. This is really
important because for those younger students they need this kind of pace in
order to be able to understand, digest and then eventually join in. Now you may
find that very young students or students that are new to learning
English may not join in right away. In fact, some may just give you the stare...
This is perfectly normal and actually the fact that they're staring means that
you have their attention and that they are
learning. So just give them some time and don't pressure them to speak before
they're ready. Real quick, if you are finding this video helpful then make
sure you hit that like button as it really helps out the channel. Next we
want to start transitioning into the next part of the lesson and so we're
going to change those movements into some movements they're going to get
students calm and ready for the next section of class. Hand, hand, clap your
hands. Arm, arm, fold your arms. Arm, arm, fold your arms. Good job, are you ready
for class? are you ready? After that students will be sat nicely
you'll have their attention and they will be ready for the next section of
your lesson. Bonus tips! Now there are two really important points to remember
throughout this warm-up and the first one is eye contact. Without eye contact
students feel like we're not paying any attention to them and it's easy for them
to get disengaged. So when we're teaching online it's really important that we
make sure we look down the camera lens instead of at our screen. Again making
that connection can be a little bit more tricky because we're online and not in
person so smiling on camera is really important for younger students. I suggest
using the same warm-up for several lessons as this gives the class
structure and lets students know what to expect when they come to English class.
This in turn also helps them feel more comfortable with you the English teacher
and with the idea of speaking English overall. So there have it a simple warm-up
that you can try with your online ESL lesson. If you like this video let me
know by hitting that like button and by commenting with the word helpful in the
comments below. If you're looking for more online teaching tip videos and you
can check out my series right here. That's it for this video, thanks so much
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