This document summarizes a project involving teachers from several European countries using warm-up activities to improve English learning for students ages 8-11. Over 80 students participated from February to May 2020. The activities aimed to make students more comfortable with their teachers and motivated to learn English. Activities included tongue twisters, dice games, online games, group presentations about their countries, and making e-books. Teachers shared descriptions of specific warm-up games involving vocabulary, speaking, and teamwork skills. An evaluation surveyed teachers and students about the benefits of the project.

1. Warm Up Activities for ELT
Class
Helena Gustović Ljubić, I. osnovna škola Bjelovar, Croatia

2. About the project
Duration: February – May, 2020
Partners: teachers from Turkey, Ukraine, Spain, Austria and Croatia
Founder: Beyza Özkeskin and Feray Özkılınç
Age of pupils: from 8 to 11 (more than 80 involved)
Aim of the project: to ensure our students are comfortable with us as teaches and feel
safe in their English learning environment.
Results: better relationship between teachers and pupils and better motivation of our
students for learning English as a foreign language.

3. Activities

4. February
Tongue twister challenge
We created mixed country group to do tongue
twister challenge. Our students did challenge
with students from different countries and
cities.

5. March
Flayswatter Game
Dice game

6. April
Online games – Jeoparty, Kahoot etc.

7. May
Mixed pupils groups (5 pupils per group)
Group 1 – Pupils are introduced the flags of their countries
Group 2 – Pupils introduced traditional dishes of their countries and made one
common presentation.
Group 3 – Pupils made a video talking about things they like or dislike. (Using
Voki)
Group 4 – Pupils made a video where they explained why they joined the project.
Group 5 – Pupils worked together in creating an e-book using the StoryJumper
application.

8. Other activities
Safer Internet Day
eTwinning Day
Children’s Day
Evaluation (teachers and pupils)

9. eBook with warm-up activities
https://bit.ly/ebookwarmup

10. DICE
Skills: Communicative vocabulary practice and speaking.
Levels :All level of kids
Requirements:The teacher brings two bottles which are different color and one
dice.
How to play: Throw the dice,Look at the picture,say the names of jobs or
actions.Keep going like that until you miss your chance.And two players can be on
same square.When someone reaches finish line,game is over.
Beyza ÖZKESKİN (Founder) - Atatürk Primary School, Turkey

11. SPINNER GAME
Skills: vocabulary, speaking, pronunciation
Level : any level of students
How to play: You can use ready templates or draw a circle
on the board and divide it into parts. Stick pictures, or
write questions in these parts. Stick the spinner in the
center of the circle. Ask a student spin the spinner. When
it stops, the student answers the question shown by the
spinner’s arrow.
Hanife ÖZCAN - Servet Çambol Primary School, Turkey

12. LIST-O MANIA
Skills: vocabulary, pronuncıatıon, speakıng
Level: young learners
How to play:Teachers or students will suggest a topic, for example: Animals, colors,
favorite meal, items that you threw away in the last 24 h……
The students need to list as many word as they can..
Variant: we create 2-4 teams in class ant they compete.
One word= 1point
Eva Lopez Sepulveda - IES Profesor Antonio Muro, Spain

13. WORD HUNT
Skills: vocabulary, writing
Level: any level of students
How to play : Teacher writes some letters on board and asks
groups to write as many words as they can find and write in 3
minutes. They must be fast and silent. The groups win 1 point for
each word regardless of number of the letters.Who writes the
most is the winner of the game.
Feray ÖZKILINÇ (Founder) - Kozluca Secondary School, Turkey

14. Name Memorizing Game
Skills: vocabulary, writing
Level : Intermediate (group game)
Have children sit in the circle. Start by saying “My name is…”
and then answer a question about yourself. For example “My
name is Dan and I like purple”. The next person says “ This is
Dan and he likes the color purple and my name is Olya and I
am 10 years old”. The next person says “ That is Dan, he likes
purple , this is Olya and she is 10 and I am Pavlo and I like
football”. It’s a chain and the kids have to repeat what the
last people have said about themselves. It’s really hard to be
the last person in the circle!
Nadia Hrechyshina - Novoaidar Regional Sanatorium School, Ukraine

15. PICTIONARY
Skills: vocabulary
Level: for all ages, especially young learners
How to play: Before starting , prepare the words and put them in a bag.Make two groups
and draw a line on the middle of the board.Give one team member from each team a pen
and ask them to choose a word from the bag.Tell the students to draw the word as a
picture on the board and encourage their team to guess the word.The first team to shout
the correct answer gets a point.The student who has completed drawing should then
choose someone else to draw for their team.Repeat this until all the words are gone -
make sure you have enough words that each student gets to draw at least once!
Seçkin ÖZTEKİN - Süreyya Yalçın Secondary School, Turkey

16. Name the colour
Skills: vocabulary, pronuncıatıon, speakıng
Level:Young learners
Requirements: cards with written colors
How to play:
Students choose one card. They should name the
colour in which the word is written, not read the
word!
Natalia Savchuk - Novovolynsk School 2, Ukraine

17. THE A TO Z GAME
Skills: vocabulary, writing
Level : ıntermediate (ındividual or group game)
How to play: Give students a theme, for example, jobs, things you
take on holiday, food, animals. Write the letters A to Z on the board.
Teams of students must race to write an appropriate word next to
each letter on the board.
Helena Gustović Ljubić - I. osnovna škola Bjelovar, Croatia

18. https://bit.ly/warmupevaluation