English teachers today I have a treat
for you today I'm going to share with
you some great warm-up activities that
you can do tomorrow in Norwich
I'm Deirdre Nicholas from palm tree
teaching TV teacher speaker and your
personal English language coach this
lesson is especially for teachers
because I've had a number of requests on
how can I can share some warmers with
you and I hope I can give you some new
little ideas on how to teach them now as
we know there are loads of warmers that
you can do in class great warmers but
they all have pretty much the same
purpose to engage your students into the
learning of course you can also use them
to revise what you did in the last
lesson or to learn something new and
also at the beginning of the year the
school year or the school term they're
great as a get-to-know-you activity it's
a chance for students to warm themselves
up into English like athletes do before
a race I have six six to share with you
so let's get started right away with my
first warmer the alphabet game now some
of you have asked for warmers to help
them with the students learning the
English alphabet so this will do just
that it's suitable for primary middle or
secondary school students as are all the
warmers that you're going to see today
it's very simple and you'll be glad to
hear there's no preparation so it can be
a very quick warm-up or it can take
longer if you choose choose the topic
that relates to what you've been
teaching them and put your students into
teams each team has to find a word for
each letter of the alphabet
so if you're going to use something like
food these students would find things
like Apple for a butter for B chocolate
for C and so on winner or the winning
team is the team that finds the most
words for the alphabet ideally the whole
alphabet now my next warm-up is for
checking homework or reviewing an
exercise the class may have done
it's called the homework grid now this
is quite a long warmer actually in fact
it's longer than a warmer really it's
about 20 minutes but it does very
homework correction and it encourages
peer checking to so get your students
into teams and on the board
write a grid of squares each square is
numbered the same as the homework
answers so for example if there were 12
answers you draw a grid on the board of
three squares by four squares making 12
and number them one to twelve and get
your students to do the same in their
books then get them to peer check their
answers in their teams go round the
team's asking for answers in turn this
is another reason why it can actually
work for large groups as well if the
answer is correct from team a they win
that square if not it goes over to team
B now the object of it all is to win
three squares in a row or four squares
in a row of absolutely correct answers
and the first team that gets to that is
the winner it's lots of competition in
this of course and it really motivates
the students to get the right answers
my third warm-up is a way of revising
the last lesson that they had in a fun
way
especially for kinesthetic learners and
it's called the jumping game this warmer
really gets the brain going for your
students it takes about five to seven
minutes so not a long one you don't need
any preparation
you just write YES on one side of the
board and no on the other then you get
your students to line up in front of the
board now this can be quite a squeeze
sometimes in classrooms which adds to
the fun and the energy it's really
simple just ask your students
comprehension questions about for
example the last lesson or an exercise
they've just done or even if you've
shared a little clip of a film together
and they have to jump for yes if the
answer is yes or no if the answer is
in fact if you're really lucky they'll
be so exhausted by the end of this
exercise they'll be really happy to sit
down with their books and work at their
desks afterwards oh and before I share
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teaching English lesson so my number for
warmer is called did you it's around 10
minutes and it revises past simple
questions and answers it could also be
used as a consolidation at the end of
the lesson
after you've presented how to do past
simple questions and answers if you like
you put your students into pairs so
again you can do it with a large class
if that's what you have and they ask and
answer with each other with past simple
questions yes/no answers so they write
down the activity that they've asked
their partner and tick yes or no after
their partner has answered it so
questions like did you watch TV last
night and the other one of the pair
answers either yes I did or no I didn't
and other questions such as did you play
on your computer last night yes I did no
I didn't and so on so when each person
has a list of the activities that their
other person in the pair has or hasn't
done they report to another pair or even
to the whole class if you like so for
example Ahmed watched TV last night but
he didn't play on his computer you can
use this with other tenses too it works
very well with the present continuous or
with future going to now warmer number 5
is a great quick one and with no
preparation again which you'll be
pleased to know it's called fact
and the students do all the work the
students are topic it could be revision
it's up to you and get the students to
write down as many true facts about that
topic as they can in save four minutes
it could be a topic such as traveling or
dogs or whatever you've been teaching
them they could use this as an
introduction to your next topic so start
the lesson by asking your students what
facts they know about a particular topic
then present the topic during the class
and then do exactly the same activity at
the end and you'll find that your
students know way more facts about
whatever it is you've been teaching them
it shows how much learning has taken
place in the class before I get my next
warmer if you would like to have me as
your own personal coach just email me on
deirdre at palm tree teaching comm as
I'd love to help you I'll put the the
link down below in the description okay
so for my last warmer number six is
called word chain students throw a ball
to each other and name a word that
starts with the last letter of the
previous word and that's what creates
the word chain so for example something
like ball light tree and so on now
timing wise this can take five minutes
if you're strict
or it can extend down to ten or fifteen
if you choose now of course you can vary
this a lot you can choose an area of
vocabulary that you want your students
to practice and revise now you could do
it for grammar too how about this is a
really challenging idea what about
getting them to do it for irregular
verbs each person who catches the ball
has to call out a different irregular
verb this could be lots of fun make sure
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underneath this video I've done videos
on games and on teaching English to
young learners as well which I'm sure
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really soon bye
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