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Teaching mixed ability groups will require some extra help.
Teaching new group will require some work to establish rapport between the students.
Students maybe un-familiar with the EFL methodology.
In an existing group the students are already likely to know and be comfortable with each other.
Establish rapport between the students and between the teacher and the class.
Rules of thumb for a great warmer:
• Get students talking to students in pairs, in groups, or mingling. (The teacher talking to one student at a time is not a warmer!)
• Make sure the language is familiar – we’re not teaching anything new here!
• Don’t correct students as it will inhibit them
• Think of ways to include physical movement
• Make it fun!
True/False Game
1) Ask students to write down three statements about themselves: two true and one false. (You can do an example for yourself – don’t make the false one too obvious!)
2) Students mingle, and tell each other their three statements. The others have to guess which are true and which is false.
Picture Mingle
1) Each student draws three things in their life on a post-it (e.g. their house, dog and neighbour).
2) Get students to stick the post-it to their front or their arm.
3) Play some music. Students dance around the room.
4) When the music stops they ask the person nearest them about their pictures.
Hot Seat
1) Put the students into small teams.
2) One person from each group sits with their back to the board.
3) The teacher writes a word they’ve recently learned on the board.
4) The students facing the board describe the word without saying it. The students with their back to the board have to guess what it is.
