Those first few struggling minutes are often the result of class material being inappropriate for warming up.
Why should it be any different for ESL students and even their teachers?īesides, starting an activity cold simply turns the first minutes of the activity into an improvised warm-up, anyway. Just think: athletes, dancers, singers and actors all warm up before their respective activities. It’s the same with most other activities. What’s the one thing that everyone will tell you to do before you start? That’s right, you need to stretch! If you don’t, you could be sore afterwards or even injure yourself while running. (Download) Why Should We Warm Up to Start a Class? This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. Your students’ brains could be cold and sleepy, and they might just need a literal and figurative stretch to get ready for what’s coming. If so, don’t worry, it’s not (always!) your fault.
When you look around your ESL classroom, do you see students ready to nod off to sleep?ĭo you hear a choir of groans when you ask your students to open their texts?Īre your students focused on anythingbesides the hour of ESL they have ahead of them? FebruThe Heat Is On: 6 Fun and Fabulous ESL Warm-up Activities
