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| Title | 101 Ideas for Class Starters: Part 1 |
| Body | 101 Ideas for Class Starters: Part 1 FLTEACH An FLTEACH user recently posted 101 different ideas for class starters (also known as warmups, bellringers, or sponge activities). Many of these ideas could be used at any point in class. Here are the first 50: * = an advanced activity 1. Raffle. T. raffles off simple objects 2. Start class with a bang. T. hides questions in a balloon/S. pop it and answer 3. Fortune telling. S. are given a small piece of paper with their fortune. 4. Back to back stories. T. creates 2 short stories. S. "A" reads story to S. "B" who listens until he can repeat it to S. "A" 5. Dot to dot using numbers or times or alphabet 6. Color by number. S. color in a scrambled pic according to a legend 7. What do you prefer? T. provides student w/2 choices 8. Rebuild a poem. S. are given all the words of a poem and rebuild it as T. reads. 9. Rebuild a song. Same as #8 but with a song 10. Synopses. Read or tell a brief synopses of a movie or fairy tale/students guess 11. What's in my backpack, pocket, drawer, purse? 12. What is the question to this answer? 13. Number game: High and low columns 14. 4 corners: shopping, holidays, birthday 15. Publicity for a product: use ethnic aisle in supermarket 16. Guess what I am thinking 17. What are the differences between 2 pix: items changed or missing 18. What is the opposite? S. must find opposite of simple words. 19. Hot and cold game. S. must find a hidden object. Class calls out hot or cold 20. Use Alphabet/Number grid to spell 21. Math problems. S. try to solve in target language 22. How do you feel today? Adj. on card stock. S. picks one according to mood and says why 23. Directed Drawing: Draw what you are told 24. Tic tac toe question game 25. Go sing a song 26. Go recite a poem 27. A riddle 28. What's that holiday? T. reads out date or custom, s. guess the holiday 29. Where do these clothes go...hat on your head, shoes on your feet 30. Tell a kid's story 31. Going on Vacation! Place and Season. What do you pack? 32. Pass it back stories. Fan folded paper. Ask: Who, what, where, when, why 33. Talking about food. S. write a menu, do a food demo, food tasting 34. Hats. which one are you like? Or a pair of shoes, or stuffed animals * 35. Nice! Pay a compliment to one person 36. Relaxation commands 37. Using proverbs. S. find Eng. equiv., or rebuild.. 38. What is different...in the class 39. Rate the hotel 40. Make a poem. S. write a poem w/the first letters of their name 41. Telephone: From the last s. in ea. row, to the first. Write the answer on the board! 42. Where are we? Name or show pix of typical monuments 43. Where do you stand? S. Change position according to their opinion or taste 44. New Vocab at the door. S. draw/act out meaning 45. Easter cultural facts. Either search for eggs or info. online 46. Illustrate pieces of a song, while class sings the song wave the approp. card 47. Word SPL-ITS 48. Make a date: where, when, what will we do, who will drive * 49. Make a book mark with a comment about reading or make a hotel door sign, or "Gone..." 50. Make a sign with an often asked question "Can I go to my locker?" Hess, D. Here it is: Class Starters. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 4 Aug 2007). The second 50 class starter ideas will be in next week’s InterCom. |
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