9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons

9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons. Simple ideas to activate background knowledge, intrigue students, and gives them access to all that they know.

9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons


9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons. Fun Warm-Up Activities for All Language Classrooms

9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons

A list of 9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons to activate background knowledge, intrigue students, and gives them access to all that they know.

A proper warm-up activity can accomplish several purposes. First of all, warm-up activities can bridge old to new information, thus leading students to make a connection between previous lessons and a new theme or concept. Thus, in its most basic form, a warm-up activity helps students remember what they know (stimulate the recall of prior knowledge) and then build upon it.

A warm-up activity also introduces new information in a way that serves as an attention-getting device, thus, warm-ups are sometimes called attention getters. That stated, a warm up should not just gain students’ attention but direct that attention to an appropriate target, thus it can and should also serve to bring students a broad view of a topic that will be introduced at a later time in the lesson plan more specifically. Good warm ups are ideally intriguing to learners, at least in the sense that they can give information in a way that invites curiosity and elicits prediction activities. Thus, the use of visuals, question prompts on the board, or small videos are common.

A warm up is a small activity that “primes the pump”, stimulates. In other words, a little activity activates background knowledge, intrigues students, and gives students access to all that they know.

Warm ups often naturally lead into objective discussions, which can further inspire students to consider what skills they will gain through the completion of the lesson.


Good teaching is 1/4 preparation and 3/4 theater.

~

Gail Godwin

9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons

What follows are a few very simple ideas to help stimulate interaction and thought in an classroom.

Written Prompt on the Whiteboard: Question or Statement

Here is an example

9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons

Pictorial Prompt

Scrambled Sentence Strips

Here is an example

9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons

Back-to-Back Information Gap

Here is an example

Box Props

Vocabulary Scramble

Here is an example

Warm-up with Dialogue

Idiom Madness

Here is an example in English

9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons

Value Lines

Here are 2 examples of value lines


Here is a PDF Worksheet

9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons

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9 Must-Use Warm-Up Activities For Your Language Lessons

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