英语课前热身活动

英语课前热身活动 ----------------------------精品word文档 值得下载 值得拥有---------------------------------------------- Fruit and vegetable vocabulary. Aims To practise simple personal questions: What’s your name? How old are you? Are you married? How many children do you have? What’s your job? To revise basic vocabulary To break the ice and make students relax and enjoy using English To incorporate body language and intonation in the lesson To get students moving around the classroom and changing the dynamics away from a teacher-led activity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Procedure Ask students to write down the following words on a scrap of paper, keeping what they write secret form those around them. Tell them to write: 1. the name of a fruit 2. the name of a vegetable 3. a number between 1 and 200 4. Ask them to write the answer to this question – Do you like football? 5. How many pencils and pens do you have? 6. What is the first thing you do every morning? Now tell them that these things are actually: 1. their first name 2. their family name 3. their age 4. are they married? 5. how many children they have 6. their job Now they must get up and go around the class and ask the personal questions and share information about their new selves. Encourage them to shake hands (if appropriate) and make eye contact when meeting new people. If they don’t automatically use intonation appropriate for surprise etc, why not model it before the activity. For example: How old are you? A hundred and fifty seven. Really!? (said with rising intonation and a long stretch of the word) This game ensures that students really listen to the answers of their questions as it is ----------------------------精品word文档 值得下载 值得拥有---------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------精品word文档 值得下载 值得拥有---------------------------------------------- an information gap – they won’t know what the answers will be. Riddles to make learning English fun! To foster team work and stop children just calling out and attention-seeking. If they don’t confer about the answers, they could easily lose their chance to win. You might have to allocate a secretary / representative for each team to speak on their behalf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Divide the class into teams of up to 6 students in each Write 6,5,4,3,2,1 on the board As you read each clue to the riddles out, teams can guess what the answer is. If they are correct after one guess they score 6 points, after 2 guesses five points, etc... If a team gives the incorrect answer they cannot have another try I am not a bird, but I can fly. I’m brown on the outside. I eat insects and fruit. I’m white on the inside. I’m dark. I’m hard and you can eat or drink me. I sleep upside down. I’m hairy. (bat) I grow in hot countries. (coconut) I’m yellow and round. I’m usually made of paper, I’m the same size as an apple. but in Australia I’m plastic. You can’t eat me. I come in lots of colours. You hit me with a racquet. I have pictures and numbers on me. (tennis ball) You use me to buy things. (bank-note) Every country has one. I’m a special day. I have different colours. People buy each other presents on this I need wind to fly. day. The British one is red, white and blue. I’m romantic. (flag) I’m on February 14th. (Valentine’s Day) I’m something you do every day. I’m something English people eat for I’m also an Olympic sport. breakfast. You use your legs to do this. I’m hot. It’s slower than running. You can put butter and jam on me. (walking) I’m cooked bread. (toast) I’m a sport. I’m a beautiful animal. I’m usually done by men. I’m found in Africa. You need to be powerful and quick. I have the first and last letters of the Muhammad Ali is the most famous man alphabet in my name. who has played this sport. I’m like a horse. You wear shorts and gloves. I’m striped. ----------------------------精品word文档 值得下载 值得拥有---------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------精品word文档 值得下载 值得拥有---------------------------------------------- (boxing) (zebra) Prastice questions forms and a wide range of vocabulary Aims To get students thinking. To allow for practice of question forms and a wide range of vocabulary. This activity does not have to be linked with any others. Procedure Explain that you are going to read out something strange and the students have to work out what has happened. The students can ask questions about the situation and you can only respond with a yes/no/maybe. Read out one of the descriptions below and make sure that the students have understood. The first student to guess what has happened is the winner. You can allow students to work in pairs or threes or teams to discuss the situation and help each other. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Situations 1.A man is lying dead in a snowy field. There are no footprints to or from his body. The man has a pack on his back. How did he die? A: He jumped out of a airplane with a parachute on his back that failed to open. 2.When Harry comes home he finds Sarah is dead, lying in a pool of water and Tom is sitting quietly on the armchair. There is some broken glass on the floor. Tom won’t be charged with murder. Why not? A: Sarah is a fish and Tom is a cat. Sarah was swimming in her bowl. Tom started playing with it and knocked it over. 3.A woman lives on the 30th floor of a building. When she gets home from work, she usually takes the lift as far as the 21st floor and then climbs the stairs to the 30th. However when it’s raining, she’ll always take the lift to the 30th floor. What explains this strange behaviour? A: She is a dwarf and cannot reach the top button unless she is carrying an umbrella. 4.A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says 'Thank you' and walks out. A: The man had hiccups. The barman recognized this from his speech and drew the gun in order to give him a shock. It worked and cured the hiccups - so the man no longer needed the water. 5.Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on the grass. Nobody put them on the grass but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there. What is it? A: They were used by children who made a snowman. The snow has now melted. 6.A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so? ----------------------------精品word文档 值得下载 值得拥有---------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------精品word文档 值得下载 值得拥有---------------------------------------------- A: They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets etc.) ----------------------------精品word文档 值得下载 值得拥有---------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------