Hana Ziklová Jan Louda

& quick exercises

HOW TO RELAX...

1. Push your hips as far back as they can go in the chair

2. Pull up chair near table, forearms on table

3. Feet on floor

4. Straighten your back

5. Head up – a balloon pulls your head up

6. Shoulders down – chest open like an accordion

7. Pull your belly in toward your spine

8. Put your hands on your ribs

9. Inhale slowly through your nose (check your ribs)

10.Exhale slowly through your lips (belly in)

GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER …

1. Favourite place

Close your eyes and imagine you are in your favourite place

What do you see there?

What do you hear there?

Do you smell something?

What do you touch?

Do you taste anything there ?

Do 3x inhale and exhale as we have learnt before

I count to 5 and clap my hands, you open your eyes

Now – draw your favourite place (2 minutes)

1. Favourite place

2. BINGO names

2. BINGO names

(Students do not know each other‘s names)

Make a grid 3x3 (4x4)

Write there different names which you think occur here

Now each of you stands up and says „My name is....“

The one who is going to have 3 names in a row

(diagonal or vertical or horizontal) says BINGO

Example:

Markéta Eva Jana

Anna Radovan Peter

Saša Eliška Milena

BINGO!!

„My name is Buck the Great“

3. My name means…

Work in pairs / individually

Come up with words that describe you…

…using the letters in your first name.

EX: L y n d s a y

“Loud, Young, Nerdy, Dreamer, Strong…“

(easier: use only the first letter of your name)

3. My name means…

4. 2 truths and 1 lie…

Introduce yourself by stating two truths about your

life, and one lie.

Try to make it difficult for others

Ex: „Hi, I'm Mary…

1. My hair was almost to my waist in elementary school.

2. I speak four languages.

3. I used to live in France.

4. 2 truths and 1 lie…

5. Line up!

5. Line up!

For the whole class

Form a line in order of……

o Height, from the smallest to the tallest

o Birth months, from Jan through to December

o Alphabetically – the first letter of your name

o The first letter of your favourite colour

Possibility: Do this silently, using sign language

6. Nonverbal communication

6. Nonverbal communication Take a small piece of paper and write one personal

feature on it (old, lazy)

Now attach this paper to a partner behind you on

his forhead

Now ask sb to mime you the feature written on

your forhead without saying any word. Try to guess

7. If I were…

7. If I were…

Tell me what you would be if you were….and say why

Example: „If you were…“

1. A historical figure

2. A type of fruit

3. A cartoon character

I would be Taz as I rush around like a crazy

creature

WARM-UP / ENERGIZERS

„Warm-up exercises get your body

and mind ready for more exhausting

activities...“

…You are ready to

do anything“

1. Associations

Say the first thing you imagine when I say e.g.

Sunday (students continue)

When the „line“ ends, it comes backward - students

have to remember what they have said

OR: I say„Sunday“ and the next person has to think

of a word which begins with the second letter of the

pronounced word: Ugly > giraffe > Important …

1. Associations

2. Who am I ?

2. Who am I ?

One of you is going to imagine he/she is…

A kind of fruit

An animal

A famous person

Has some kind of job

Each person takes turns to ask the one person

questions to figure out who or what he/she is

Only yes or no answers can be asked

3. Categories

A person thinks of a category, such as MOVIES.

Everyone must take a turn thinking of some kind of

movies: a comedy, drama, sci-fi…

If someone takes too long to give an answer (the leader

should count to five) then that person is out and a new

category begins. Let‘s start:

1. Vegetables

2. Animals

3. Vehicles

3. Categories

4. Fill in words

4. Fill in words The teacher writes „ job advertisement“ on the

blackboard

Your task is to fill in words to each of the letter

j…

o… (e.g. „oil“)

b…

This activity can be organized as a competition with a

time limit.

OR try to fill in words related to the topic „job“ or

„advertisement“ 

PRE- STRATEGIES

 Brainstorming 

Predictions

Class Discussions

Semantic Mapping 

Visual Aids

Prequestions 

Prequestions: you can write out a series of questions you

expect to be answered when reading:

Definition What is....?Where does ... fit?What group does ... belong to?

Characteristics How would I describe...? What does ... look like? What are its parts?

Examples What is a good example of ...?What are similar examples that share attributes but differ in some way?

ExperienceWhat experience have I had with ....?What can I imagine about ...?

WRITINGFive sentence story

The teacher shows a picture and ask children

to write four/five sentences about it.

Students should follow the pattern:

who, what, when, why, where

They should come up with some original story

NOW THE PICTURE

WRITINGFive sentence story

Write about the necklace the lady has: OR

Write about the boy in the green T-shirt and the girl next to him with the camera:

Thank you for

your attention

and now…

Ruuuuun!!!