WARMERS/ICE-BREAKERS

          The introductory activities such as classroom activities and ice-breakers are the most effective techniques that most teachers should follow. The reason is as Nadia Zehni mentioned in her article My favourite EFL classroom warmers, that some students are like zombies and need to capture their interest and involve them from the start. 

             Why did I like her ways of warming the students?  It was because she put three different warmers and within these warmers she involved some ice-breakers. She started the class with True/False warmer and she let the her students mingle between each other asking questions related to their personalities, which of course ice-breakers. 

            There is a Guess the famous person and Where in the world warmers, but for me I did the like the True/False one, and I have tried these on my students, and because it focusses in how they will form the yes/no questions and to answer them on. 

           They can be effectively good to warm lazy kids and at the same time it can break the tension between the students who do not know each other for asking them personal thing, and the teachers might also get involved in this to let them feel thy know something about them, which found it very wonderful. 

 

Warmer and Ice-breaker Activities

When teaching teenagers or adults, you need some warmer activities to make the class funny and interesting. However, finding these activities is hard, because you need to search trough books and ask some experts to provide some and may be not be enough. But this problem is no longer exists because of this website
http://www.onestopenglish.com/teenagers/skills/warmers/
It has many warmer activities which are useful and helpful for the teacher. I myself used many of the activities there and my students were understanding the lessons easily and they were thankful for it.
Another website that I enjoyed reading is
http://eltnotebook.blogspot.co.uk/2007/01/my-favourite-efl-classroom-warmers.html
It has some useful warmer and ice-breaker exercises which can be applied in the classroom to warm the students up. I found both websites interesting to read and apply. Also both websites are well organized, and recommend all my colleague teachers to visit and try to apply some of the exercises in their classrooms. Please leave your comment and feedback to be reviewed.

PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES AND INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES

      This paper aims to illustrate how you are going to warm up you lesson as a previous step.There are three activities that will wake your students  and let them focusing on the lesson.According to Nadia, she find her experience is valuable and worthy. 

      every teacher find the first ten minutes of any lessons are the most difficult. Simply because it needs a good plan to warm the student up and encourage them to start their lesson actively.This kind of activity( worming up) is effective to wake the students who are sleeping. This approach comes from real experience of teachers who teach teenagers  in secondary  school.

1- True /false.

First you have to be sure that all students know the meaning of true and false. This activity come as the previous step when the teacher pretend to teach a new lesson.For example, ask students to write three questions about themselves and discuss them with their friend as a pair work, then introduce them selves to each other and decide which statements are correct and which is wrong.
This kind of activities will let all students to participate well and be a wake.

2- Guise the famous person.

This activity will also make students active and will develop their speaking skill while they discuss. Pictures might be useful in this activity which let one student sticks on his back one picture for famous persons and move around the class. After that let every students to speak and discuss with others about what they have seen.

3- Where in the world.
 In fact the warmers exercise work better with international group to tell each other about their culture and customs . For instance, teacher will write on the board some words such as, food, cloths, drink, after that give the students an opportunity to discuss and exchange their idea about each other's country. Also they can talk about the stereotypes in their country. The main aims behind this warmer activity to use the students ability more than teacher.

All in all, the warmers should get the students to participate politely with each other and reflect their attitudes positively. If this warmers are successful it will make the lesson interests and active.