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Top 5 ESL Warm Up Activities and Games | TEFL Warmers to Start off Your English Classes

If you’re looking to get your English classes started off in style, then watch this video for my favourite ESL warmers, including games and activities. These TEFL warm-up games and activities are ideal for easing students into English and preparing them for what's ahead. These ESL warm-up games are the perfect thing to do before jumping into the heart of the lesson. Help get your students ready to learn with these ESL warm up activities and games! It will help start your course off the right way when you teach English and help your students improve their language skills. Try out some of these ESL warm-up activities today. Want to find out more? Check out: https://eslspeaking.org/top-5-esl-war... 39 ESL Icebreakers: https://amzn.to/3ueaj6J Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/   / eslspeaking   https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/   / jackie.bolen     / englishwithjackie   #teachingenglishwithjackie #eslactivities • Join Jackie's email list: https://eslspeaking.org/subscribe/ • Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @jackiebolen   • Find me on Patreon:   / membership   Transcript: Hi everybody, this is Jackie from esleaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about my top 5 esl warm-ups that I like to use at the beginning of class. My first one is just a minute. This is a speaking warm-up for the higher-level students. I like to write a bunch of different topics on the board. Maybe hobbies, sports, family, movies, TV etc. Any, really anything that you want. It could be current events, things in the news, etc. I put students into groups of four and they each have to number themselves one, two, three, or four. Then i get one of the students to take a piece of paper and scrunch it up into a ball and then throw it at the board and whatever word the scrunched-up ball comes closest to, all the number ones have to talk about that topic for one minute without stopping. So that's the challenge and then the other three people in the group have to listen and then ask one or two follow-up questions to the person who was talking. This gives the students a reason to listen of course, which is key in English conversation classes and then just repeat the process for numbers two, three, and four and that's it. The next one. If you are teaching a writing class, warm-ups can be a little bit trickier for this. But one thing that I like to do when teaching writing or academic writing is to have some free writing time. It's often the case that students or that textbooks, writing textbooks, focus on writing accuracy and structure. I have students buy a notebook and then I set aside the first five to ten minutes of each writing class and I give students a topic. Maybe high school days or plans for the future summer vacation. It could be family, there are a ton of writing prompts that you can find online. And then students have to write about it for five to ten minutes but the key is that they can't use their cell phone or a dictionary. The next one: conversation starters. If you're doing a class on whatever topic and you want students to have a little warm-up, if you say something like hey, so talk about your family with your partner for five minutes or, talk about your vacation plan, or your city for five minutes. Students sometimes... there is just not enough structure and maybe students are a little bit shy and they don't really know what to actually talk about with their partner. So to alleviate this, I give students some conversation starters related to the topic. I also encourage a free-flowing conversation with follow-up questions but I like to give students something just to hold in their hands in case they're stuck so that the conversation doesn't die. The next one. If I'm teaching very young learners like kindergarten, preschool, maybe grade one, grade two, or grade three, I'll use a routine to start off my class. I'll say something like, what day of the week is it and how is the weather today and what time is it and hey, what color is his shirt? Just some very very simple questions to review key concepts and vocabulary that we've done in class. It's a little bit comforting I think for kids too, that they know exactly how the class is gonna start and what's gonna happen and it's gonna be very similar questions each day. Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:12 Just a minute 1:10 Free writing time 2:40 Conversation starters 3:28 Routines to start the class 4:10 Show and tell 5:13 Conclusion