1. Set inductions, also known as anticipatory sets or warm ups, are short activities at the beginning of a lesson to get students ready to learn. They should take no more than 2-5 minutes. 2. Examples of effective set inductions include using objects, guests, audio clips, changing seating arrangements, or having students do skits. Creative activities can help engage students and relate to the upcoming lesson. 3. Routines like doing a chant, reviewing the calendar, and greeting students individually help create predictability and remind students of behavioral expectations. Short games, songs, and other guided practice activities can reinforce new vocabulary or concepts from the lesson.

1. SET INDUCTIONS
(Anfangsaufgabe/Anfangsaktivität/Denkt mit!)
(Refers to establishing a certain mind set in a classroom, in anticipation of what is to come. Also known as anticipatory set, warm up,
attention getter, etc. It gets students ready to learn, ideally using some strategy that will lead into the lesson. The set induction should
take no more than 2-5 minutes.)
Set Induction
Set is a mental state of readiness
Induction brings it on
Set Induction gets learners thinking and ready for the lesson
Anticipatory Set is another name used
Set induction should:
Contain a statement of the learning
Relate the objective
Involve the learner in the learning
Daily Warm-Up:
The need for predictability remains high at the beginning of the lesson, especially if the teacher is using the target language exclusively. Follow a fun regimen of
daily routines.
Create a poem or chant describing daily routine. The students can gesture as they recite target language rules such as "I sit down", "I watch", "I listen", etc. This
warm-up activity takes less than one minute, yet it serves a dual purpose of reviewing familiar material and reminding students of the expectations.
Next, it's calendar time. Produce a magic wand pointer to review the days of the week and count the numbers. Each day, systematically choose a special "magic
wand student" to point to the calendar as the other students respond chorally.
Finally, greet students individually and ask, "How are you?" This can be done in a variety of ways.
Examples and Ideas:
Objects (using pictures, statues, variety of relevant objects, experiments, video clips, etc.)
Teacher (can dress up, act something out, use physical motions, write something on the board and not say anything at all, do anything
out of the ordinary.)
Guests (can come in and do any of the above)

2. Audio (this can be music, instruments, speaking in another language, simply quoting something unusual and/or relevant, reading an
excerpt of something unusual and/or relevant.)
Students (change seating arrangement, do an out of the ordinary group activity or boredom busters, skits, questioning the students re:
something very relevant or totally irrelevant to them.)
Be creative and always save your ideas in a file to be used at another time. (See below)

3. Set Inductions (Warm ups, hooks, attention getters, bell ringers...)
# 1
New Persona:
Teacher comes into classroom
using a „new persona“, i.e. strict
teacher, movie star, visitor who
cannot speak English, etc.
# 2
Teacher Act:
Teacher comes into classroom
wearing boots and short skirt to
illustrate a grammar point
depicting a boot. (Good for
Spanish teachers)
# 3
Kitchen Pot:
Teacher comes into classroom with
a big pot. She pulls out the
adjective endings that are „in the
pot“ and gives to a student to
superimpose over German
adjective ending chart.
# 4
Sweeper:
Teacher comes into classroom
with a broom and sweeps.
Then she tapes signs with
subordinate conjunctions on
the broom handle to illustrate
that now the verb goes at the
end of the sentence.
# 5
Lost Love:
Dating skit to fit with a song about
lost love. Guy is sitting &
reminiscing about having this great
relationship, two people act out all
the things they did together. Then
another guy shows up and steals
the girl because he does something
better.
# 6
Memory Cards:
With memory game of lots of
pictures, teacher and students
describe the pictures according to
current theme. Ask about weather
conditions, animals, etc.
# 7
Memory Match:
With memory game (or something
similar), teacher has students find
their match, either the opposite
picture, the matching or
coordinating picture and then
have students find a clue from
other student, ask a question, etc.
# 8
Opening Song:
Routine and structure are
important in school. Begin each
circle time with a simple "Hello"
song in the foreign language.
Choose a traditional song from the
target culture or create your own.
Use the same song each day in
order to signal the shift in
languages and focus the children's
attention.
# 9
Input of New Words and
Phrases:
Now is the time to bring out your
fun and surprises. Use props,
costumes, pictures, storybooks,
drama, songs and movement to
introduce new language
expressions and concepts.
Reinforce the weekly theme in the
foreign language lesson. For
example, if the weekly theme is
"Dinosaurs," you can count
dinosaurs, graph them, sort them
by size and color, and tell dinosaur
stories.
# 10
Guided Practice:
Short games or activities will
reinforce the new language
expressions. Students like to
identify items that they pull out of a
mystery bag, act out stories as the
teacher narrates, or challenge that
friendly puppet friend to a game of
concentration or tic tac toe. The
possibilities for guided practice are
as limitless as your imagination.
Just remember to keep the games
non-competitive and make sure
everyone gets a turn. If possible,
crafts, coloring, or small group
games can extend the lesson.
# 11
Goodbye Song:
Create closure to the day's learning
with a rhyme or finger play related
to the theme. After about 20
minutes of language immersion, it
will be time for individual
"Goodbye's" and a closing song.
# 12
Coloring:
Color-by-number activities are a
fun way to help students
independently read colors in the
target language. Choose from the
multitude of free coloring pages
online and create target language
color-by-number activities.
Translate the code for geometric,
mosaic surprise pictures for
even more motivation.
# 13
Reading about Colors:
After aural-oral color activities, use
children’s books to introduce the written
word. Use the appropriate target
language versions of classics such as:
 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What
Do You See? by Eric Carle and Bill
Martin [Henry Holt and Co., 2007]
 The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric
Carle [HarperTrophy, 1988]
 Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo
Lionni [HarperTrophy, 1995]
 Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
[Voyager Books, 1995]
# 14
Speaking Games:
Once kids are comfortable
hearing and identifying colors
in the target language, it’s time
for them to speak. Spread out
a path of colored paper
stepping stones and send kids
on a "Rainbow Walk," reciting
the colors as they walk the
path. Play games of Candy
Land (Milton Bradley) in small
groups, en-couraging players
to identify colors out loud. Go
Fish and Tic Tac Toe are
other effective partner and
small group color activities.
# 15
Graphing Colors:
Enrich language learning with a
little content. Kids can create
human bar graphs depicting
their favorite color, or the color
of their clothes, hair or eyes.
Surprise your students by
allowing them to graph -- and
then eat -- the colored candies
in packs of Skittles, M&M’s,
Smarties, or Sprees. (Just be
aware of allergies.)