Warm up is usually a review of the previous lesson or a preview of the lesson to be developed. It may be a fun game to catch students' attention.
Warm-ups are activities that teachers can use for creating a good
atmosphere where the students can feel comfortable with
their teacher and classmates; moreover, they can forget just for a moment the
goal of the class. Warm-ups have the characteristics of raising the mood of the
students for example warm-ups can cheer up the students who are sad or worried about
any trouble, and they just forget for a while their issues.
Teachers can use them in all
the levels of English such as basic, intermediate, and advanced English because
all the warm-ups are really funny and entertaining for everyone; however,
teachers have to take into account the quantity of knowledge that their
students have; on the other hand, they have to make warm-ups according to the
students’ level.
The activities that my
classmates presented can be used in whatever level including basic English for example the activities
called “Last Name Adjective” the only
thing that students have to do is write an adjective that starts with the first
letter of their last name; then, they have to share something about them. The others
activities “People to People”, “Yarn Web”, and “All you can Write” were funny,
and they can be used in whatever level too.
What I liked from the
warm-ups was that they were easy to understand and were funny too; moreover, my
classmates could practice the words that they know even they could learn new words
because each one shared words.
What I would have changed in
the activity “Last Name Adjective” is the way that people wrote their names; I would
have done that everyone wrote only the name with the first letter of their Las name;
after, someone else would have written an adjective that started with the first
letter of their name.
In the activity “All you can
write” I would have change the way that people participated on the board. I would
have written a different word for each group and would have also done that
everyone had participated on the board one by one.
In my opinion, warm-ups are
always a necessary to start a class because it is funny and cheer up students. Moreover,
they help to raise the mood of the
students and help to disappear feelings like sadness, laziness and boredom; for
that reasons, the teachers always have to start a class with a warm-up
