Beginning (ice-breaks, warm-ups)

Beginning (ice-breaks, warm-ups)

in FLT

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………… MAIN BODY…………………………………………………………………….
1.1. The ways of beginning (ice-breaks, warm-ups) in FLT ……………………… 1.2. The modern methods of beginning (ice-breaks, warm-ups) in FLT …………. 1.3.The usage of Internet technologies for beginning (ice-breaks, warm-ups) in FLT ……………………………………………………………………………….. Conclusion………………………………………………………………………… References………………………………………………………………………....

INTRODUCTION
Starting your lesson with a warm-up will certainly assist you to set the focus of your students on the lesson. A good warmer will tune the minds of the students into ‘English learning mode’ , create interest and it also serves as a review on a previous lesson. An icebreaker connects the members in a group together by leaving space for a smooth flow of the lesson. This is a great way to calm the nerves of the ‘first-timers’, to make them open up to new ideas and also to make themselves heard.My favorite ice-breakers are pictures of the most popular celebrities like rock stars. If I am about to be with my teenager students; be sure that I have few posters when I turn up the funny moments of the stars’ clippings from newspaper or magazines, usually within a minute, the girls will start saying what they know (I will have already written key words on the board too) by using related vocabulary to eagerly chat with the ones sitting near. To proceed, I will pass the voc card on the four grids (photos) to ask them to form a team to give me a story. Like 1 cute Taylor Swift, 2 New York, 3 an electric guitar, 4 a movie - the fastest one on the stage to tell the story will be having the least homework!
I have a lot of cards with different questions on various topics and my students pull a card out of a pile without seeing the question. I do the same and I am the fist to answer the question as an example/ Anyone may comment the answer telling his (her) thought on the topic. Sometimes I give the students the card with brief information about a famous person and the student has to tell about this person to the classmatesStudents love guessing and guessing activities are not uncommon in an ESL classroom. They are a perfect combination of humour and creativity. Let’s have a look at what these three English teachers, Cecy, Ghania and Nataliia got to say. I Call it "the truck Is full of" and I start with a letter for example "a" and I say.. "the truck is full if apples" and the students have to follow the same pattern but using the last letter of my word and continue.. example "the truck is full of seals" etc. My students like it a lot and I also enjoy it. It helps them to think fast of different vocabulary