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08.09.15 Activities Day, Melta, 19.09.2016 1
Ice Beakers,
Fillers
& Motivation Boosters
Our Aims
Motivate pupils – fire them
up and cool 'em down.
Fill gaps
Save ourselves time
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(also good as fillers!):
- to introduce a theme
- to relax S after a hard day's work
- to wake S up after a hard night
- to wait for late arrivals
- to provide a break in the lesson
- to provide humour
- to provide oral fluency practice
- to finish the lesson on a light note
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Coffee Break
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Should women-only train
carriages be introduced?
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What’s going on?
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Gerund or infinitive?
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Don‘t
Let
Routine
Become
Routine!
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Remember Motiboosters, fillers (and coolers!)
should always be
short
competitive
Interactive
fun
and get Ss to think in English!
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Motivation Boosters and Fillers for English Lessons

Editor's Notes

  1. SUM UP
  2. Get students to write down three words they find difficult to pronounce. They then pick one or two everyday items from their bags and imagine a cartoon-style conversation between them. Sole proviso: include the three chosen words.Pupils love this role play because they don't have to feel embarassed about making mistakes in front of the class. After all, it's not them mispronouncing the difficult words - it's the coffee mugs
  3. Daily Telegraph gallery
  4. It‘s Sunday engineering works: everyone with earplugs has just missed the platform announcement that all trains have been cancelled and replaced by an emergency bus service. The guy offline wonders if he should say something or just slip off…...
  5. Either on projector or distribute cards