This document provides instructions for several warm-up activities at different levels for language skills like speaking, writing, listening. The activities include an icebreaker where students share two truths and a lie about themselves, a word game where teams make the longest words from a target word, finding adjectives for each letter of a student's name, listing facts about a topic in a time limit, and writing down all sounds heard in two minutes of silence. The activities are designed to be short warm-ups to engage students in using their language skills.

1. WARMING-UPS
Two Truths, One Lie: Speaking, Intermediatelevel
Ice-breakeramongstkidswhomaynotknow eachotherverywell orwhenyourstudent’smaynot
knowyouverywell.
1. Form a circle.
2. Each personmustthentell the grouptwothingsthat are true aboutthemselvesandone thing
that isnot true about themselves.
3. Try to getthe student’stomix up the truthsand liesbecause otherwiseitwill be obvioustopick
whichone isthe lie.
Make the longest words:Writing, Intermediate level
Write a topical target wordverticallydownthe board,forexample,WINTER.Intwosor threes,
studentsattempttocome up withthe longestwordthatbeginswitheachletter.Give teamsa
pointperword anda bonuspointforthe longest.
Waterfall
Industrious
Nausea
Terrified
Empty
Retailer
What does your name mean?: Writing, Basic level
Usinga dictionary,google oranyotherresource,studentsfindandwrite downanappropriate
adjective thatbeginswitheachletterof theirfirstname.Forexample:
Flirtatious,Relaxed,Extrovert,Desirable

2. What do you know about bananas?: Writing, Advanced level
Seta five-minute time limitandingroupshave studentsthinkupandwrite downas manyfacts as
theycan about bananas(orcats, Belgium, DavidBeckham, etc.).One pointshouldbe givenfor
each true sentence.
How many sounds can you hear?:Listening, Basic level
Studentssitinsilence fortwominutesandwrite downeverysoundthattheyhear.Letthem
compare theirlistswiththeir neighbors beforeseeingwhohasthe longestlist?