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Games, activities and teaching ideas > Ideas for First Day Warm Ups
Ideas for First Day Warm Ups
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PaulG
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Ideas for First Day Warm Ups
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Hello everybody. Today I recieved a call offering me a job to teach a university level course (which I have never done before). The thing is that the first class is tomorrow evening. The first class will only have general information about the course, personal presentations, and warm-up activities. Can somebody please give me some ideas as what I can use for those activities? |
15 Jan 2015
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papadeli
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- This a great warmer you can use to recycle any vocabulary or grammar
structures. The game
is called Bankrupt. Collect the vocabulary flashcards
you aim to revise, and stick -or write- behind them cards showing an amount of
money, like $500, $100 and so on. One or two of them should say
BANKRUPT and another DONATION. Stick the flashcards on the board. Be
careful students don �t see money cards. Divide the class into two
groups. Students take turns to choose one of the flashcards, say the
item on them, or a sentence using that word, as you prefer. If they say
it right they gain the amount of money at the back. If it says Bankrupt,
you erase the money they had won, and if it says Donation, that team
donates all their money to the other group.
- Write "WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE" on the blackboard. Explain to the students
that you are looking for somebody. On a piece of paper ask them to draw the person you are describing.
Describe slowly as your students draw. In the end, tell them that you were describing one of the Ss in that class. They have to find who that person is.
- In groups of three or four, students ask each other about their food
likes and dislikes. Students should keep asking until they find a food
that no one in the group likes. Have a representative from each group
write that food or dish on the board. See if there is a food or dish
that the entire class dislikes.
Greetings from Greece, |
16 Jan 2015
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cunliffe
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Great ideas so far! �Bankrupt � will bring some Numeracy into the lesson.I like �Onion skin mingle � on the tiny tefl teacher �s website http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/teacher/activities/getting-to-know-you.html (It �s not me, btw - I �m enormous!!!;))
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16 Jan 2015
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PaulG
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Thanks!!! These answers are very helpful!!! |
18 Jan 2015
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