Find Someone Who 2. Guess The Picture: Warm Ups

Warm Ups
1. Find someone who

2. Guess the picture Procedure
A. One person comes to the front and starts to draw a picture.
B. The students must try to guess what the picture is before the person has
finished drawing it.
C. The person who guesses correctly comes to the front to draw another
picture.
3. Memory games
Shopping bag
A. Put the students in groups of 8-10 people.
B. The first person in the group starts by saying the following
sentence: Yesterday I went to the market and I bought some
fish.
C. The next person in the group repeats the first sentences and adds
another thing that they bought. eg,Yesterday I went to the
market and I bought some fish and some bananas.Each person in
turn repeats the sentence and adds another item. The students
have to concentrate hard to remember all the things in the
correctorder.
4. 20 Questions
One person thinks of an object (person, place, or thing). Everyone takes
turns asking yes/no questions until someone can guess correctly (or until 20
questions are asked). The difficult part is that you cannot ask "wh"
questions!
Example: PINEAPPLE. Does it talk? No. Does it make life easier? No. Do you
eat it? Yes. Is it something you would eat for dinner? No. Etc...
If someone makes a mistake in forming the question, other club members
can help turn it into a proper question.
5. Can't Say Yes or No
In this game everyone is given a certain number of coins or squares of
paper (about 10). Everyone moves around the room starting conversations
and asking each other questions. The only rule is that you cannot say the
words YES or NO. If you accidentally say one of these words, you have to
give a coin or square to the person who you said it to. Try to trick each other
by asking questions that you would almost always answer with a yes or no.
Think of other ways to trick your friends. Sometimes asking two quick
questions in a row works well. (Especially tag questions: Are you new here?
This is your first time in America, isn't it?). This game is a great way to
practice using small talk and to add variety to your vocabulary. It also
makes everyone laugh.
6. Fact or Fiction
In this game, one person tells a short story about themselves or someone
they know or heard about. Usually it is something funny or crazy. It can be a
true story, or something made up.
Example: Josh tells a story about his Uncle Leo who sleeps in the nude. One
day Uncle Leo was sleepwalking and he went outside and took his dog for a
walk. The next door neighbour was coming home late from work and saw
him! She called the police and he got arrested for being naked in public.
Everyone around the room has to say whether they think Josh's story is fact
(true) or fiction (made up). Josh reveals the truth when everyone has
guessed. Members can take turns telling a story.
7. Chain Fairytale
This is a fun writing warm-up. Everyone has a piece of paper and writes the
first sentence or two to start a fairytale (not one that already exists).
Example: Once upon a time there was a frog that had no legs. He wanted to
get married, but there were no female legless frogs in the land.
After one minute the leader will say "SWITCH". At this time the writers have
to put down their pens and pass the papers. They cannot finish their
sentences. Then, the next writers will continue the story. After about ten
minutes you will have as many silly stories to read as you have club
members. The leader should warn the writers that they will soon have to
wrap-up the story during the last two minutes so that each story has a
conclusion. Read all of the stories out loud for a good laugh. You can extend
this activity by trying to edit each other's writing and spelling errors.
8. Draw the Picture
In this activity members split up into pairs or small groups. One person
looks at a scene from a magazine or book (the leader should cut out enough
pictures, or bring in enough magazines for the club). The other person has a
pencil and a blank piece of paper. The person with the picture will try to
describe everything he sees to the drawer. This is good practice for using
prepositions of place. When the describer is finished, compare the drawings
to the real thing! Whose is the closest to the original?
9. Categories
For this game, one person thinks of a category, such as MOVIES. In a circle,
everyone must take a turn thinking of a Movie title (in English of course). If
someone takes too long to give an answer (the leader should count to five)
then that person is out and a new category begins. If someone gives an
answer that doesn't make sense or is incorrect, he is also out of the game.
For example, if the category is VEGETABLES and someone says "banana"
that person is out. The game continues until only one person is left!
10.Who am I?
In this game, the leader prepares cards with famous people's names on
them. The leader tapes one card on the back of each member. Then
everyone pretends they are at a party and asks each other questions to find
out their own identities. When someone guesses their own name correctly,
the name-tag gets taped to their front and they continue to chat with the
party guests until everyone is wearing the nametag on the front.
11.Jeopardy
In this game, which is based on the famous gameshow Jeopardy, everyone
writes down ten answers to questions about themselves. After writing down
the answers, people have to form pairs or small groups and try to find out
what the questions are.
Example: (answer = purple) "What is your favorite colour?" "Blue." "What
colour do you hate?" "Green." "What colour is your underwear?" "Purple!"
You can stop at three guesses if you want, or keep going until someone in
the club can guess the question.
12.Hot Seat
In this game, the club is split up into two teams. One member from each
team sits facing the group. The leader holds up a word (or writes it on the
board if you are in a classroom) for all of the team members to see except
for the two players in the hot seats. The teams must try to get the person in
the hot seat to guess the word or phrase. The first person to guess correctly
gets to stand up and a new member from their team takes the hot seat. The
person on the other team has to remain in the hot seat until she gets an
answer first. You can keep score or just play for fun. This game can also be
played in pairs. One pair member closes their eyes while the leader shows
the word to the other pair members. The first pair to get the word right gets
a point. Warning! This is a loud game because people tend to get excited
and yell!
13.Broken Telephone
This is a listening and pronunciation activity that always gets people
laughing. The leader first must think of a sentence or phrase and whisper it
to the person beside her. That person will then whisper what she heard to
the next person. Each person can only say, "Can you please repeat that?"
one time. When the message reaches the end of the chain that person must
speak out loud. Oftentimes the message will be completely different when it
reaches the end. Try to find out where the chain broke! In a big group you
can send the message two ways and find out which team comes closest to
the real message. (A famous example is the army message that started as
"Send reinforcements, we're going to advance" and ended as "Send three
and fourpence, we're going to a dance.")
14.Paper Airplane Facts: Students are going to write 4 facts about

themselves fold their piece of paper into a paper airplane then fly the plane
across the room. Whoever it lands nearest to, picks up the airplane, reads
the facts out loud and tries to guess who wrote the facts.
15. A simple and short activity to introduce classroom language at the
beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year I wanted my students

to be introduced to the classroom language I expected them to use for
the rest of the year. This is the activity they had to do.
In pairs they make up a dialogue including these phrases and act them out
in front of the class:
I don't understand
I don't know
Pardon?
Once more, please.
What does _____________ mean?
What's ____________ in English?
How do you spell?
Is this ok?
Later we wrote all that classroom language on posters that we put up on the
walls.

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beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year I wanted my students

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