EFL Ideas
A Warmup Activity.
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Your students are all used to you walking into the classroom at the beginning of a class and asking them questions about what they did today, what they ate for lunch, last week's lessons, etc. They're a little bored with it. Change it around a little occasionally. Walk into the classroom tomorrow and have them ask you questions. It doesn't matter if they make any mistakes in grammar, etc. If they do just repeat the question in the correct form and then answer it. Another good idea is to supply them with the answer and have them give you the question. Of course you have to make it obvious what it is you're talking about. Walk up to a student, pick up their pencilcase, look at it for a second and say, "It's blue and white." This answer requires two keywords in the question, 'color' and 'pencilcase'. Don't accept just, "What color is it?". Make them use the language that they know. Prompt them for both words. They have to answer, "What color is my pencilcase?". Then move on to the next student and repeat the process. It may take them a while to get used to these ideas, but once they do they get right into them. Especially if you only give them a very short time in which to respond.
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