{"id":2158,"date":"2020-11-06T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2158"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T12:04:33","slug":"warmer-ideas","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/blog\/warmer-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Top 5 Warmer Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >1. What\u2019s in the box?<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"ts-list ts-list-style-icon ts-list-icon-color-skincolor ts- ts-icon-skincolor ts-list-textsize- ts-list-icon-library-fontawesome\"><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Put 3-4 objects in a shoebox which somehow relate to the topic of the lesson.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Ask a learner to come to the front and describe the object based only on touch.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Depending on their level they can describe the objects using only adjectives (small, soft, furry), or by making simple sentences (\u2018It\u2019s round\u2019, \u2018We play with it outside\u2019).<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Can the others guess what it is?<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >2. Queue<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much do you like TV series? How old are you? Are you a cat or a dog person? You can ask the learners basically anything, and their task is to stand in a queue according to their preferences. They can only talk in English, of course. This way the teacher can get to know the learners and the learners can also get to know each other better.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >3. Blobs<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encourage your learners to mingle and get to know each other a bit more. Shout out a keyword and let them stand in smaller groups based on their preferences. The trick here is to encourage them to talk to each other and to have them define the groups or blobs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For example, if the keyword is \u2018books\u2019, there might be one blob of students who love reading, another who has read Harry Potter books and another who prefers watching movies to reading books.\u00a0<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >4. Jumping the line<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can get to know your students better or you can revise previous topics and structures with the help of this game.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<ul class=\"ts-list ts-list-style-icon ts-list-icon-color-skincolor ts- ts-icon-skincolor ts-list-textsize- ts-list-icon-library-fontawesome\"><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Draw an imaginary line in the middle of the classroom and ask your students yes-no questions.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Come up with statements about classroom materials or offer two options.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Students need to decide which side they are on: yes or no, true or false, this or that.  \n<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >5. Say something<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Ask your students to stand up and hand out cards with one word written on them.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depending on the material you are covering, you can hand out nouns, colours, past forms of verbs, phrasal verbs, wh-question words, etc. Students should either ask their classmate a question using the word, or give a definition of it and ask a classmate to guess the word. If they can ask a proper question or give an accurate definition and their partner can answer correctly, they can take a seat. The next student who gets the chance is the one who answered the first student, and so on.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ts-vc_btn3-container  primaryButton ts-vc_btn3-center\"><a class=\"ts-vc_general ts-vc_btn3 ts-vc_btn3-size-md ts-vc_btn3-shape-round ts-vc_btn3-style-flat ts-vc_btn3-weight-yes ts-vc_btn3-color-skincolor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/BOOKRClass\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get Started<\/a><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way you start your English class determines the whole lesson: it engages students, makes them enthusiastic about the English lesson and helps them focus on learning English. The first few minutes of the lesson is also a great time to activate their background knowledge. In order to raise their energy levels and grab their attention, we suggest doing the following activities in the target language.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8857,"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[80,61,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookrs-recommendation","category-teaching","category-tips-tricks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11933,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2158\/revisions\/11933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}