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Prefixes
A good activity to revise prefixes and practice word building.
Pre-Intermediate
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This ice breaker activity is good for putting students in a new class in a relaxed mood.
Elementary
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This idea comes from a popular game show in the USA. Students love the team aspect of this game. Also, because students aren't allowed to spell words or speak in their L1, they are forced to pronounce words very clearly for their teammates.
Pre-Intermediate
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Packaged Deal
This is a good activity for reminding students how things are packaged.
Pre-Intermediate
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Number Toss
A handy wee warmer to practice numbers from 0 to 10 with elementary classes.
Elementary
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Missing Vowels
This warmer is a popular activity with students and is good for getting them focussed at the start of a class.
Pre-Intermediate
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Idioms
The aim of this warmer is for students to guess the meaning of an idiom from the surrounding context.
Upper-Intermediate
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Make a Choice
This is a warmer to encourage fluency, give practice in expressing opinions, and introduce students to a new topic.
Intermediate
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Looking after a Business Visitor
A warmer that introduces cultural awareness and uses role plays.
Intermediate
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Look, Listen, Taste and Smell
A useful warmer to use before doing creative writing.
Pre-Intermediate
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Lexical Sets
A warmer to revise and extend vocabulary using a wordnet.
Pre-Intermediate
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Last Saturday
This warmer is a good one to use in the first lesson of the week.
Pre-Intermediate
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Jobs
Students practise talking about likes and dislikes in this warmer.
Pre-Intermediate
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It-Was-The-Way-You-Said-It
A fun dictation exercise that can be used in the last few minutes of class, when you do not have time to start anything new, or as a change-of-pace activity. You can make it as long or short as you like.
Intermediate
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Important People - Talking about Past Events
This exercise is designed to encourage students to describe a past event and a person that is important in their lives.
Pre-Intermediate
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Ice Breaker
You need big colourful pictures to do this warmer and it is a good activity to use when a group is relatively new and still learning about each other.
Pre-Intermediate
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I Spy
This warmer is a good way to review classroom vocabulary.
Elementary
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Hot Air Balloon
To encourage spoken fluency using persuasive speech, the students have to decide which famous person will jump!
Intermediate
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A Child's View
Movie star Jamie Lee Curtis believes children will be a focus in her life when she quits acting and everyone should see the world from a small child's point of view. (Fame, doing worthwhile things, sentences, making notes.)
Upper-Intermediate
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Giving Instructions
A warmer to train beginner students how to give and follow instructions in English.
Elementary
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Getting To Know Your Classmates
This warmer turns a "Find someone who ..." into an exercise where students change commands into questions and ask those questions to other students.
Pre-Intermediate
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Getting To Know Each Other
I use this warmer at the beginning of a new class as an ice-breaker. It can give you a good idea of the strengths and weaknesses of your new students in just a very short time.
Elementary
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Geography Spelling Contest
A fun wee exercise for recalling previously learnt spellings of place names.
Pre-Intermediate
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Following Instructions
This week's warmer is one of the simplest. It works well at the start of a lesson or during class to break up the routine, change pace and increase attention and heart rate.
Elementary
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Fantasy Vacation
A warmer to encourage spoken and written fluency. This exercise practices using 'would like to...' to speak about a hypothetical future. Also it gives practice in the use of the simple past to describe a holiday.
Pre-Intermediate
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Famous Persons Game
A warmer from Thailand to revise yes/no questions and to practice deductive reasoning.
Elementary
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Famous People
This is a fun activity to practise deductive reasoning. It also encourages fluency in the use of yes/no questions and answers.
Pre-Intermediate
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Extended Conversation Building
This is a warmer which encourages fluency in English conversation. It also gives students practice in producing longer responses.
Intermediate
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Describing Clothes
This can be used to encourage fluency in describing clothing and colors and/or as an introduction to a lesson on descriptions.
Pre-Intermediate
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Email Memory Game
You can use this game to review a wide variety of vocabulary sets. The vocabulary in this warmer can be used in conjunction with the instant lessons: "No" to email, Worker Privacy and Tech workers in the U.S.
Intermediate
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Discussion Wheel
A warmer to practice agreeing and disagreeing.
Intermediate
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Crazy Sentences / Dialogues
My name is Ana Fausta and I am from Brazil. I have a warmer that I would like to share with other English-To-Go teachers. Teenagers love mischief and so do my older students. It is great fun and they gloat on it.
Pre-Intermediate
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Crazy Comparisons
A way to practice making comparative sentences.
Pre-Intermediate
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Connect the Sentences
This is an exercise to help students listen and understand the sequence of events in a narrative story.
Pre-Intermediate
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Conditional Relay
This is a fun activity for reviewing conditional forms.
Pre-Intermediate
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Complete the Picture
This fun activity uses previously learned vocabulary and questions to obtain information from a partner to complete a drawing.
Elementary
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Chain Game
An exercise to recall learned vocabulary and to practise listening for the last sound at the end of words.
Elementary to Pre-Intermediate
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Brainstorming Debate
An activity to encourage students to debate current issues and to provide them with the steps to achieve this.
Intermediate
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Behind Your Back
The students always have one or two interesting tales to tell and this activity invariably helps students to learn things about each other which in turn leads to further interesting discussion.
Intermediate
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April Fool's Trick
This warmer can only be used 1 April, April Fool's Day. It is a tradition on April Fool's Day to trick a friend(s). This warmer is a good way to introduce the tradition of April Fool's Day.
Intermediate
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Antonym Flash Cards
A warmer to recall previously learnt antonyms and to also practice the pronunciation of words.
Elementary
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Answering Questions
A warmer to encourage fluency and uses language to talk about hypothetical situations.
Upper-Intermediate
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Animals
This activity can be used to revise vocabulary and to create lexical sets. It can be used for many word sets but this particular warmer focuses on the topic 'animals'.
Pre-Intermediate
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Anagrams
A warmer designed to improve spelling and vocabulary by creating new words from a single vocabulary item.
Intermediate
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Am I a pizza?
This is a good warmer for revising vocabulary from previous lessons.
Elementary
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A Love/Hate Relationship
A warmer to practise using the gerund form of verbs to talk about things you love and hate.
Intermediate
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A body of ....
A warmer that looks at the word 'body' and its many different uses.
Intermediate
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2nd Conditional
In this warmer students play lotto and discuss "What would you do if you won $5 million?"
Pre-Intermediate
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'Going to' - for future intentions
Spending a lot of money is a good way for students to practise talking about future intentions.
Pre-Intermediate
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Downsized
Downsizing may be just the thing to boost company profits but the streamlining exercise makes employees sick. (Business, downsizing, employee health problems, the verb 'to be', present tense)
Intermediate
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