WARM UP ACTIVITIES

NAME OF THE PROCESS LEVEL MATERIAL

ACTIVITY
Complete words Write a name of a country vertically down the board, for example Intermediate .Marker
CANADA. Two students and their teams attempt to come up with . Board
unit 2 : countries, any word that begins with each letter. In relation with the High school
cultures and adjetives contents and information from the country. For level
costumes example:

C OUNTRY
A NCCESTRES
N ORTH
A MAZING
D ISTANT
A TTRACTIVE

What does my Using whatever resources they have at hand, students find and Basic Piece of
name means? write down an appropriate adjective that begins with each letter Elementary paper
Unit 1 : of their first name the goal is to express and give information to and high
Information and others For example: school level Pencil
communication R adiant
O bedient
B eauty

Chain Future This is a fun writing warm-up. Everyone has a piece of paper and Intermediate Piece of
Fairytale writes the first sentence or two to start a fairytale and then make Elementary paper
connections between sentences. Example: Next week Im going to and
Unit 3 : Going visitor future plans. High school Pencil
places After one minute the TEACHER will say "SWITCH". At this time the level
writers have to put down their pens and pass the papers. Then, the
next writers will continue the story. After about 2 minutes you will
have as many silly stories to read .

What do you In groups, students must think of and write down as many facts as Intermediate Pencil
know about they can about something. For example:
something - LONDON - CHILE Basic Piece of
- GREAT BRETAIN - USA paper
unit 2 : countries,
cultures and
costumes

Categories The teacher chooses a category that is relevant to what the class is Intermediate Teacher
studying. For a primary English class, the teacher might pick
unit 2 : countries, technology, or countries . Students go around in a circle and High school Marker
cultures and have to name something in that category. If a student cant think
costumes of something in five seconds, he is out of the game. The game
continues until only one person remains.