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Warm Up Ideas Join our email newsletter to receive free updates! Close Search for Ideas and Resources Filter Results Menu Warm Up Ideas Online Games for Kids Turtlediary.com offers a large selection of graded online games in all curriculum subjects. Kids learn many important lessons and concepts through them. Early understanding prevents kids from experiencing future struggles grasping new concepts. The emphasis is to develop and build critical skills and a broad-based educational foundation to succeed in school. Kids are active participants in building their own knowledge and not just passive recipients. Once kids realize a game is fun, they'll want to play it over and over again therefore being educated a lot quicker.

No-prep warm up activities ESL warm-up activities are essential in the English classroom. Students may be tired or have other things on their minds and diving straight into a textbook or grammar explanation can be quite jarring. With a good warmer you can put your students into English mode; attentive, interested and ready to participate. A warmer can also serve to review language from a previous lesson or prime the class for a new topic. Here is a list of warm-up activities you can use which don’t require any preparation.

Synonyms ESL Vocabulary Games This is an ESL synonyms vocabulary game requested by Dane, a student in Ireland. Have fun playing and learning! Games are great for motivating students to learn. By playing our fun educational games, students can practice and review key English vocabulary, grammar and sentences without the boredom which is usually encountered when doing paper-based gap-fill exercises. Play the game below and do not hesitate to share these resources with other learners.

Games, ideas, icebreakers, activities for youth groups, youth ministry and churches. This game is excellent for a competitive group. It tires everyone out really quickly and can provide a good opportunity to award a prize to the winner. You have one person to be the leader or "Capt... Play anywhere Whole Group Reading Comprehension Worksheets "Your reading comprehension materials are the best I've found on the web. They are so thorough and comprehensive! My students and I have learned a lot from them. Thanks so much!" -- Susan B., Carter, KY. 03/21/12 Like these materials? FOLDABLE WORD GAMES: 2 in 1 Here’s a new addition to my WORD GAMES collection (see some of the games in my WORD GAMES post) – the Foldable Word Builder-Word Search Game. It is a Build a Word version with a twist. Instead of traditional 7×7, 9×9, 11×11, or 13×13 grids, players build words while unfolding parts of the 4×8 grid, which makes the game more dynamic to play.

The ESL Commando: Best English Listening Websites Here is a quick run down of all of my favorite listening websites for English learners. Please be sure to check out my top ESL listening activities here on the ESL Commando too! Enjoy! ELLLO - English Listening Lab Online. Randall's Lab - Great Main Ideas and cloze exercisesLyrics Training - Learn English through songs. Check out my full review HERE.

Icebreakers & Warm-ups – ELT-CATION Candy Confessions Have each learner choose a candy from a variety of candies that are displayed on the table. Once they have chosen their favorite put up the chart for what one should do for each candy. Candy Confession Chart Candy [1] = a fun experience this summer Candy [2] = a new friend you met this summer 50 of the most useful English abbreviations and acronyms How well do you know your FAQs from your BPMs? Would you know when to RSVP? Don’t worry if these strings of letters seem baffling to you.