The role of warm up activities in English lessons

The role of warm up activities in English lessons.

The use of warm up activities is a topic commonly mentioned to lead English classes successfully. Warm ups are not ways to kill precious minutes at the beginning of class, instead, using warm up activities can be one way to bring variation in class activity and to make the students be curious, focus their attention, provide them purpose and motivation. Unfortunately, many teachers do not pay attention whether students feel interested and motivated in classes. It is needed to find out how to keep students’ interest in learning a language.

In this article, the effectiveness of warm up activities which help students make progress in learning a language will be discussed. It gives the definition of warm up as an activity before the lesson. Then, it covers the information about the benefits warm up activities.