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[Noodle]

Any of you interested to share warmers and fillers?

[davis]

Are you intersted to share English planned lesson?

[Noodle]

Davis-> The topic is warmers and fillers... not English lessons... maybe another time!

[Spiderman Too]

Warm-up Activities - 预备 yi bei

Talking Activities

Who do you think is the most beautiful girl in this class?
I think ________ is the most beautiful girl.
Who do you think is the most handsome boy?
I think _______________ is the most handsome boy.

If your parents gave you a gift of 1,000 yuan today, what would you buy, and why?

Which subject do you like best, and why?
Which subject do you like least, and why?

Who is your favorite teacher, and why?
Who is your least favorite teacher, and why?

Who is your favorite Chinese person, and why?
Who is your favorite foreign person, and why?

If you could have any job you wanted, what job you choose? (list attached)
I would choose to be a ___________________

Surveys 调查 diao cha

If you could go on holiday for 1 week to any country, but only 1 country, what country would you choose?

Synonyms / Homonyms / Antonyms

synonyms -同义字 tong yi zi - Lists 1 & 2 are attached

antonyms - 反义词 fan yi ci - Lists 1 & 2 are attached

homonyms - 同音异义字 tong yin yi yi zi - Lists 1 & 2 are attached

Scrambled Spelling - 改编 拼字 gai bian pin zi

1 � Colors

2 � Clothing

3 � Human Body

4 � Food

5 � Weather

Find The Differences

Find the Differences 1 � The Village

Find the Differences 2 � The Beach

Find the Differences 3 � The Traffic Jam

Find the Differences 4 � The Train Station

Find the Differences 5 � The Airport

Cool Down Activities -冷却 leng que

Games

Run & Spell
Teacher Says � body parts
Tongue Twisters
Charades � animals
Charades - jobs
Guess The Word
Run & Touch

[burnsie]

I spy with my little eye something beginning with .........

If there was 25 hours in a day, not 24 what would you do with the extra hour?

If you had 1 million dollars (yuan) what would you do with it?

Scramble letters

[Noodle]

Thanx Spiderman too...

What about children? I get tired of asking questions around... any good ones that imply movements?

[carken]

For children, listing works and can be very simple or more complex. For example:

animals
animals that live in the forest/water/farm
rooms in a house
things you might find in the kitchen
etc., etc.

For movements, are you thinking about TPR? Combining movements can be a springboard from simple stand up, turn around, etc. Try stand up and put your right hand on your head. Then you can even get silly with them. After you've done several, have a good student come lead the class. Just make sure you progress slowly from the very simple with a lot of repetition. Kids usually like this. You can even do a couple of minutes of these during the lesson when they start to get restless.

Maybe these will get you started. Good luck.

[Spiderman Too]

When teaching young children it is absolutely necessary to shed your inhibitions. Young children don't think like adults so there is no danger that you'll be thought of as being eccentric.

As carken said, Total Physical Response is the ideal way to teach children anything. Get them to sing and dance the 'Hokie Pokie'. Even the 'Ipsy Wipsy Spider' song has enough physical movement to amuse kids.

The 'Teacher Says' (Simon Says) game works well with kids and, subject to their level of comprehension and/or what you teach them, don't be afraid to play the game foolishly. i.e. "teacher says put your hands on your head, teacher says put your finger in your left ear, teacher says put your finger in your belly-button, etc".

The run & touch game also works really well with kids. It can be played in connection with a lesson you have taught, or be used as a filler. For example, if you teach them colors have a selection of colored cards at the ready. Spread the cards around the room. Divide the kids up into teams. Gather them at the front of the room. Call out a color and the first one to run and touch the correct colored card earns 1 point for his/her team.

If it's a nice sunny day, take them outside. Introduce new vocabulary, i.e. flower bed, trash can, light pole, etc. Then play the 'run & touch' game.

Kids love to draw. For some lessons get the kids to draw what they have just studied. I used this with a lesson on rooms of a home and furniture therein and got the kids to draw their home and label each room and item of furniture. They were as quiet as sleeping angels for 20 minutes.

[Noodle]

Thanks a million.
Great ideas.

[surrealia]

I find this page very useful for finding new games and activities:

http://www.geocities.com/allhou/lessgames.htm

[Mister Al]

burnsie.....I think we all know the answer you'd get to your 2nd question .......from 99.9% of Chinese students .....all together now............ ...............................SLEEP

[mondrian]

[alex_ssf]

Ok here's a game I played when I was learning English as well back in the days.
Six students go at the front. Everyone else leans their heads down at the desks and holds one finder, or just one of their hands up. The six people who were at the front go and touch the hands of another six people. After that everyone looks up again, and the 6 who were touched have to stand up. The 6 at the front ask "Can you guess who touched you?" and the other six have to make a guess, if they guess right they get to go at the front. And the game continues the same way again I hope this was useful!