Warmer Ideas

Idea Thinktank

Ideas on how to warm your students up

15 physical warmers and games that work well with adults

1. The untie ourselves game
Students stand together in the middle of the room, stick all their arms into the space between them and grab the hands of two random people. Working together as a class, they have to step over each others’ arms etc. without breaking (more…)

15 warmers and fillers for true/false tasks (for children & adults)

Reading and listening texts with True/False tasks are one of the easiest ways to get students involved in a reception skills lesson as the students can often try to guess whether the statements in the book are true or false before and then read or listen to the text to check. This both makes it easier for them to understand the text because they have thought about the same topic for a while and seen some of the vocabulary in the True/False statements, and makes them more interested in hearing the text to check their own ideas. (more…)