Three warmers that need one slide each: speculate about a mystery object then check, describe students’ doodles in their own coursebooks, and build a story from a set of icons.
The three warmers
- Mystery object (post): invent a backstory, then research what it really is; or write the object’s biography (who used it, where it came from).
- Coursebook doodles (post): show photos of doodles, elicit doodle, describe; students doodle on a page of their own book and describe it to a partner.
- Story icons (post): a slide of icons (alien, crime, spooky sets); short prep time; pairs tell the story.
Limits
No aims, levels or feedback stage. Warmers, not lessons.
Make them earn their time (Claude)
Add a language target: mystery objects → modals of deduction (It might be… It can’t be…, PET Speaking Part 3/4); story icons → narrative tenses and sequencers; then a 2-minute feedback stage with one upgraded sentence per pair.
Connections
Activity repertoire - texts, mingles and dice · Upgrade language during fluency work with minimal interference