Warmers and fillers for teaching English

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A great vocabulary revision game:

1. Divide the class into two teams each standing in line at the board.

2. Give them a topic like food and drink, sports, countries etc (they must be very large lexical

sets.

!. "he student at the front on each line runs to the board and must write a word in this lexical

set beginning with # on the board.

$. %he then hands the chalk or pen to the next person in the row (and runs to the back of theline, who adds a word beginning with & until they reach '.

. )f they cannot think of a word beginning with a particular letter they can leave a space, but

the team with most words at the end is the winner.

*xample of a board during a game+


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Find an English magazine or newspaper and cut out about 40 words ensuring you have a balance of

parts of speech and stick them onto a sheet of paper in no particular order something like this:

Give out copies of the sheets to students in groups of up to four. rint this set of words.

!hey have seven "depending on level and comple#ity of task$ minutes to create: one sentence with

three words% one sentence with four words etc depending on level.

&entences may be like this:

3 words' (adio is free.

4 words' )ost parents are happy.

5 words' *ows en+oy politics in ,pril.

!his game encourages creative use of language and after the sentences are produced% the students

could choose one and write a story or newspaper article that this sentence is a title or headline to.


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1)Ensure every student has a blank sheet of paper.

2)Ask ONE getting to know you type question for every student in the class. tudents write the

answer to your question and pass their paper to the ne!t student. "y the ti#e this stage is over$ each

student should have a sheet of paper with a series of different answers$ all written by different

students.

%)&ake the papers in and distribute at rando#. &he students now have to #i! and #ingle in order to

find out who wrote each answer on thier sheet of paper$ and write the na#e ne!t to it.

')(or feedback$ ask *hat do we know about +uan,E##a,-denek etc...

*hat was the last fil# you saw

*ho is your favourite singer

*ho is your favourite actor,actress

*hats your favourite thing to do on undays

*hats the na#e of the town you were born in*hens your birthday

*ho is your favourite sports personality

*hats your favourite television progra##e

/f you could be any ani#al$ what ani#al would you be

*hats the #ost interesting country youve ever visited

*hat were you doing this ti#e yesterday

0ow #any cousins do you have


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1. What was the last film you saw?

2. Who is your favourite singer?

3. Who is your favourite actor/actress?

4. What's your favourite thing to do on Sundays?

5. What's the name of the town you were born in?

6. When's your birthday?

7. Who is your favourite sports personality?

8. Whats your favourite television programme?

9. If you could be any animal, what animal would you be?

10. What's the most interesting country you've ever visited?

11. What were you doing this time yesterday?

12. How many cousins do you have?

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