Warmer and filler

Why Warmer and Filler

•  • - to introduce a theme

- to relax students after a hard day's work- to wake students up after a hard night- to wait for late arrivals- to provide a break in the lesson- to provide humour- to provide oral fluency practice- to finish the lesson on a light note

• - to briefly review something from a previous lesson

BOOKS

• Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners by Penny McKay & Jenni Guse CUP 2007

• Five-Minute Activities by Penny Ur & Andrew Wright CUP 1992

• Lessons from Nothing by Bruce Marsland CUP 1998• Keep Talking by Friederike Klippel CUP 1983• Grammar Games by Mario Rinvolucri CUP 1984• More Grammar Games  by Mario Ronvolucri & Paul Davis

1995• Language Activities for Teenagers by Seth Lindstromberg

CUP 2006

Some Ideas

LEVEL: PRE-INTERMEDIATE 1 AND ABOVETIME: 10 - 15 MINUTES

Procedure:

1. A good student is asked to sit in front of the class with their back to the whiteboard.

2. The teacher writes a word on the whiteboard. (for example: computer)3. The rest of the class have to call out related words NOT the actual word or

derivations of it !4. The “ lonely ” student must try to guess the word written on the whiteboard

using the related words as clues.5. Maybe do this three or four times with an enthusiastic class.

THE “ LONELY ” STUDENT