What kind of warmers do you use with your students?

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Submitted by Volchitsa08 on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 15:43

Asking questions is also a good way to make students think. Especially in the secondary school

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Submitted by Anna Louise Bennett on Fri, 03/07/2014 - 11:23

Something that works well with my learners is to put them into groups of 3, and ask them to think of as many things as they can that are: round, rectangular, made of glass, made of wood etc... Timing them and having a 'winning team' adds incentive.

Submitted by KaraAharon on Wed, 11/17/2010 - 23:41

Here's another idea:

Start with a sentence such as "I am going to the moon/When I go to the moon/I will go to the moon/a party/a desert island and I will bring..... (adjust sentence according to your lesson plan and tenses they've learned).

In order to join you on the trip, each pupil must bring something that fits the rule you've chosen, except that you don't tell them what the rule is - they have to figure it out. Some examples - a word beginning with the same letter as each person's first name, a word beginning with the last letter of the previous word, words that contain double letters, etc. The game continues until each pupil has found at least one object that he/she can bring.

 

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