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    This document provides suggestions for warm up and review activities to use at the beginning of English lessons for ESL students. It includes greetings, singing songs, reading stories, checking homework, exercises and reviewing past lessons. Suggested activities include using puppets, name tags, balls, bags of objects, and a weather board.

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    This document provides suggestions for warm up and review activities to use at the beginning of English lessons for ESL students. It includes greetings, singing songs, reading stories, checking homework, exercises and reviewing past lessons. Suggested activities include using puppets, name tags, balls, bags of objects, and a weather board.

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    This document provides suggestions for warm up and review activities to use at the beginning of English lessons for ESL students. It includes greetings, singing songs, reading stories, checking homework, exercises and reviewing past lessons. Suggested activities include using puppets, name tags, balls, bags of objects, and a weather board.

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    The lesson plan outlines several warm up activities that can be done at the start of an English lesson, such as greeting students, reviewing names, asking questions, and singing songs.

    Some warm up activities described are greeting students with a puppet, throwing a ball around and asking questions, playing spin the bottle, and doing a knock knock routine.

    The 'Hello Song' is mentioned as a song to sing at the start of the lesson.

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    You will need:
    CD / Tape player
    cushions (if you have enough floor space)
    name tags for each student
    glove puppet (for kids under 7)
    ball (for kids over 7)
    resources for whatever you are going to review from previous lessons.
    Readers:
    Classroom reader from a previous week
    Songs:
    The Hello Song
    Review song from a previous week
    Readers and songs can be downloaded at http://www.eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lessonplans.html
    Resources:

    Suggestions for the start of your lessons:


    The beginning of your lesson is extremely important: you set the tone of your lesson and get
    everyone in the right frame of mind for learning English. It is also an opportunity to check
    homework and review previous lessons.
    These activities can be done in the following order at the start of your lesson:
    1. Welcoming
    Greet the students by name as they enter the classroom and
    gesture for them to sit down. If you have space on the floor, It's
    a good idea to have a cushion for each student as this makes
    sitting arrangements easy to organize. Try and arrange the
    cushions beforehand spaced out in a fan-shape around you.
    2. Name Tags
    Before class prepare some name tags (stickers or pin-on tags) with
    each student's name written in lower case letters. Sit down with
    your students and lay out the name tags in front of you. Pick up
    each tag and call out the name. Try and encourage each student to
    put their hand up and say "yes". Hand over the tags and help to pin
    / stick on. Later on as your students recognize their written names
    you can have each student in turn pick out their own name tag.

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    3. Greetings
    For younger students (7s and under):
    Use a glove puppet (such as a Sesame Street puppet) to greet the
    students. Keep him in a cloth bag. Bring out the bag, open it
    enough to see in and shout into the bag the puppet's name (e.g.
    "Cookie Monster!"). Then move your ear to the opening to listen
    - nothing. Go to each student and encourage them to shout the
    puppet's name into the bag - each time nothing happens. Finally,
    get all the students together to shout the name at the same
    time. This time the puppet wakes up and jumps out of the bag! The puppet then chats to
    each student: "Hello", "What's your name?" "Goodbye / See you" before going back into the
    bag and back to sleep.

    For older students (8 and older):


    Sit everyone in a circle around you and throw (or roll) a ball to
    each student randomly. As you do so, ask questions, starting
    from the simple (What's your name?, How are you?) to more
    involved questions (Where do you live?, What is your favorite
    food, Do you like Superman?, Can you fly?, etc.). You can
    review questions from previous lessons and introduce new
    questions. Generally, I try to introduce one or two new
    questions a month - the first time they are introduced ask
    everybody the question, then always review in the next
    lessons.

    4. Sing "Hello Song" or a Review Song


    Sit in a circle and sing along to the song. Encourage students to
    clap along or pat their laps in time with the music. The Hello
    Song is a good song to start the lesson with, especially as it has
    an accompanying Goodbye song to sing at the end of the lesson.

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    Lyrics for "The Hello Song"

    Gestures for "The Hello Song"

    Hello, hello,
    How are you today?
    Hello, hello,
    How are you today?

    These are quite straight forward. First time you play the
    song do the gestures and encourage everyone to do
    them with you.

    Im fine, thank you,


    Im fine, thank you,
    Im fine, thank you,
    And how about you?

    Wave as you sing the Hello, hello parts.


    Gesture to others as you sing How are you today?
    Point to yourself as you sing Im fine, thank you
    Hand gesture towards another student as you sing
    And how about you?.

    Hello, hello,
    How are you today?
    Im fine, thank you,
    And how about you?

    5. Read a Classroom Reader again


    As you progress through the lessons you will start to build up a
    catalog of classroom readers (see our Reader download page at
    http://www.eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-readers.html). Kids love
    going back to old stories and reading through them again. Invite a
    student to pick a classroom reader and read through it as a class.
    Make the story as interactive as possible by asking questions (e.g.
    what colors there are, the names of different objects, etc.) and
    getting students to speculate what is going to happen next in the
    story.
    6. Homework check
    Check each student's homework set in the last lesson. Ask each
    student some questions about their homework worksheet (e.g.
    "what color is it?"), give lots of praise, and then put some kind of
    mark on the homework sheet (e.g. a sticker, a stamp or draw a
    smiley face). Finally, tell your students to put their homework
    back into their bags.
    7. Do "Exercise Routine" activity
    Say the following and have your students follow your lead:
    "Stand up (T stands and so does everyone else), "Hands up /
    hands down" (x 3-5), "Jump" (x3-5), "Run! / Stop!" (x3-5), "Turn
    around! / Stop!" (x3-5), finally "Sit down". Throughout the
    course you can introduce other commands, such as "Hop", "Star

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    Jump", "Wiggle", "Crouch" and so on.


    Extra activity: Once your Ss have got to know these exercises you can play "Teacher Says"
    using these actions.
    How to play ... Teacher Says
    This is basically Simon Says but using the words "Teacher says" instead. The teacher tells the Ss to
    do an action and the Ss do ask asked (e.g. "Teacher says ... jump 3 times"). T keeps on giving
    instructions with different actions using "Teacher says ...". At some point T gives a command
    without using the phrase "Teacher says" (e.g. "Hop 5 times") and the Ss mustn't do that action - they
    have to stay still. Any Ss that do the action have to sit out for the rest of the game. The last S
    standing is the winner.

    8. Review past lessons


    Reviewing past lessons is very important - students need constant practice of new vocab,
    structures, songs, games and so on. Always review parts of your last lesson as well as some
    parts from other previous lessons. You can spend 5-10 minutes reviewing - it's fine to
    recycle games and activities from your past lessons to review as kids enjoy playing familiar
    games (although be careful not to play a game to death!).
    Note: You can also include review activities in the main body of your lesson. Kids can have
    short attention spans so it's good to be able to pull out lots of activities during different
    stages of the lesson.

    Other ideas to include in your Warm Up:

    What's in the bag?


    This is a great activity to do at the beginning of your
    lessons. Fill a large cloth bag with items from your
    previous lessons (e.g. plastic fruit, animals, etc.). You can
    also throw in a few other objects (e.g. an eraser, a plastic
    bottle, a plastic cup - anything lying around (and
    safe!)). Show the bag to your students and shake it to
    rattle the objects inside. Pull out different objects,
    teach/elicit their names, have students hold and pass the

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    objects around. You can even have students pull objects out of the bag. Pull out 1 or
    2 objects per student. Finally, place the objects around the classroom and have each
    student retrieve each object as you call out its name and put it back in the bag.

    Knock-Knock
    This can be used at the beginning of each class. Teach the students to knock on the
    door before entering the classroom. There are 2 variations for the next step:
    1. When the student knocks, teacher says "Who's there?". The student replies "It's
    (Koji)" and then the teacher says "Come in (Koji)".
    2. When the student knocks the teacher must guess who it is "Is that (Koji)?". The
    student replies yes or no - if no, the teacher continues guessing. Having your
    students develop their own knocking styles makes this even more fun.

    Spin the bottle


    Sit students in a circle with a bottle in the middle.
    Teacher Spins the bottle. When it stops spinning the
    student it is pointing to has to answer a question. If
    the answer is correct then that student can spin the
    bottle. This is a good class warm up activity (e.g.
    How are you? What's your name? What is this?
    (show an object or flashcard) Do you like ___?, etc.).

    Talk about the weather (do after you have taught the weather lesson plan).
    1. Prepare a weather board. Before the first class prepare a piece of cardboard
    and cover it with felt you are going to pin this to the wall. If you can, try and
    get blue felt (to represent the sky). Write at the top in large letters, "Hows the
    weather today?". Below the write "Today it's". Cut out weather pictures (such
    as our weather flashcards) and stick some velcro on the back. Arrange the
    weather pictures around the edge of the board and then put the board on the
    wall of your classroom. You can now use this weather board at the beginning of
    every lesson.
    2. Sing the Weather Song. Sing the song together doing all of the gestures.
    3. Look outside. Get everyone to look outside by saying "Hows the weather? Look
    outside". Elicit the weather for that day.
    4. Put the weather pictures on the Weather Board. Invite some students to come
    up and put the weather pictures on the board. Make sure these students say the
    word as they put the card on the board.

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    Review the day, date and month (do after you have taught the days and months
    lesson plan).
    You'll need a large calendar for this (ideally with the days and months written in
    English). Before class, set the calendar to the front page. Site everyone down facing
    you and turn the page of the calendar to January. Ask "Which month is this?" and
    have everyone shout out "January!". Then ask, "It it January now"? Elicit "Yes" or
    "No" depending on the month you are in. Keep turning the pages and eliciting
    months until you reach your current month.
    Then ask "What day is it today?" pointing to the days at the top of the page. Get
    everyone to shout out the day.
    Next, point down the column of dates and ask "What is the date today?" and elicit
    the correct date.
    Finally, invite a student to come up to the calendar and stick a star or sticker onto
    the correct date.
    Additionally, you can sing the "Days of the Week" song or "Months March" song.

    All flashcards, worksheets, craft sheets, readers and songs used in this lesson plan can be
    downloaded at eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lesson-plans.html
    More free Lesson Plans are available at eslkidstuff.com/esl-kids-lesson-plans.html

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