ACTIVITIES FOR

WARM-UP & WRAP-UP

Warm-up activities| MORE

• Greeting: What’s your names? How are you?

• Actions: hi-five, wave, hug, fist bump…
• Retell the rules
• Sing a song
Name tags

• Fun activities for checking attendance + write names on the

board
• Name cards (identity) at the beginning of the class
• Pick cards and put in Present/Absent boxes
Exercise Routine

• Say and have students follow

Stand up
Hands up / hands down(x 3-5)
Jump (x3-5)
Run! / Stop! (x3-5)
Turn around!
Stop! (x3-5)
Sit down.
Yes-No Circles

• Draw 2 circles on the floor

• Raise Y/N questions.
• Ss run to Yes or No circle. Then Ss in each circle find a partner
and talk to him/her.
• E.g: Did you go to the supermarket yesterday?
• Yes: What did you buy?
• No: Where did you go? Or What did you do?
The lucky one

• T prepares a box of topics and a box of students’ names

• Call on 2 students to pick a topic and a name card
• The “lucky” person has to talk about that topic in 2-3 minutes.
• Then the others raise questions.
• A present for him/her if they perform well.
The singing circle

• Play an exciting song.

• Put a hoop on the floor.
• Ss go around and sing the song. They must step into the hoop
while walking.
• Then stop the song, who’s in the hoop will be asked 2-3
questions or do a challenge (sing, dance, mime actions, tell
jokes, make sentences, …)
Spin the bottle

• Sit students in a circle with a bottle in the middle.

• Spin the bottle.
• When it stops spinning the student it is pointing to has to
answer a question.
What’s missing?

• Use flashcards
• Check attendance: Who’s missing?

• Describe a person (appearance)

• Rap a song => send a message
• Fly a plane to choose a topic
• Survey about personal information
Starter

• Song Hockey Pockey

• 4 “pieces of pizza” with 4 questions
• Combine actions with questions: say a question => Ss show the
right action. Who’s wrong has to answer the question.
Starter - F&F 1, 2 (Thy)

• Teacher says => make a circle in 10s. + Remind rules: say 1

rule + show gestures
• Riddle/Quiz time
• Check attendance: Ss say their name and a word starting with
the first letter of name.
Steps for morning routines

• Greet
• Check attendance
• Remind rules/language
• Bonding time/ Circle time
• Calm-down activity (music, sing a song)
• Back-to-your-seat & get started
Wrap-up activities| MORE
Mr. Know everything

• Choose one student to sit on a chair in front of class. He’s

called Mr. Know …
• Other students can ask him any questions related to the lesson.
• T can support him when needed.
• If he can correctly answered 5 questions in a row, he will get a
present/ badge/ logo.
Captain

• Say goodbye + actions

• Have a good day
Class diaries

• Prepares each student a mini diary.

• After each lesson, Ss are asked to write what is interesting and
what is challenging or difficult to them (tell where they need
more support)
• Collect the diaries and read some.
• Explain more where necessary.
Classroom Reader

• Invite a student to pick a classroom reader and read through it

as a class.
• Make the story as interactive as possible by asking questions
• Get students to predict what is going to happen next in the
story.
Exit Pass/ Ticket

• Ask students to produce something either written or spoken in

order to leave the room.
• Ss tell one or two new vocabulary words
• Ask Ss to self-rate their understanding
Clean-up + check your stuffs

• Arrange tables
• Collect litter
• Check your stuffs
Wrap-up activities

• Wrap-up
• Homework
• Clean-up & check stuffs
• Goodbye
• Exit ticket (say some interesting/difficult words + sentences/
structures)
Very first lesson

• Get to know
• Classroom rules
• Classroom language