Why You Should Always Start With a Warmer

Starting with a warmer is important for a number of reasons. Your students need a chance to settle down into the class and get their minds focussed on the lesson ahead. Delving straight into difficult subject matter isn’t going to help them in the least bit.

We need to slowly ease people into learning, starting them off with something easy and slowly becoming more and more complex. This is generally how a course runs, and in a way the class is much like a miniature course within a course. The students need something easy to get them started, so the wheels in their head can start turning, so to speak. There are also numerous warm-up techniques which teachers use. Testing vocabulary is usually one of the most obvious ones that people will use. There are many more, but it is important for teachers to realize why they warm up classes.

Setting the Tone

The Importance of Planning

Construct a good warm up session from the materials that are going to be covered in the class itself. This will give the students plenty to talk about at the beginning, and will help ease them into the rest of the lesson.

Inhibited Students

They will allow everyone to relax

It is also important to make sure that the warm up sessions are a little bit fun. Getting the student relaxed and thinking in English is the key issue here.