WARM-UP ACTIVITIES

Examples:-

Softball / bean bag
e.g. teacher asks question - throws ball to pupil who must respond - pupils can then move on to throwing the ball and asking questions to each other - encourages lively response!

Standing - sitting down
e.g. teacher asks quick fire questions - pupils who can not respond sit; winners are left standing - or vice versa, ending up with the whole class sitting, ready to begin next activity.

Actions
e.g. everybody closes eyes - teacher tells class to do an action - pupils who can not do it or who do it incorrectly sit, open eyes and try to catch somebody else who does not do the action required.

Poems songs recital
previously learnt off by heart, possibly with actions

Revision
e.g. quick fire numbers games

Oral Pair work
e.g. ask each other what they did last night - followed by feed-back

Give us a clue
pupil comes out to front to mime

Pass the parcel flash card
teacher says stop - pupil left holding the card must say what it is - more than one flash card going round adds an extra element of hectic confusion and fun!

OHT superimposed mini OHTs, making them difficult to work out

Signals
Noise, gesture from teacher signals end / beginning / change direction for any activity

All the above and many other activities can be made even more lively by adding elements of time, competition, teams, rewards etc.
 
 

CONCLUSIONS

 

Examples of target language activities which are communicative, which call upon the creative and imaginative skills of pupils and which provide the culmination, target or climax to a lesson or a series of lessons:

Correspondence

Language Assistant ICT

Performance to other pupils (e.g. school eisteddfod)

Drama, music, creative writing