Here's an activity to start your class with. It doesn't require material, is easy to set and normally enjoyable for both students and teacher.
All you need to prepare is a list of leisure or daily activities (smoke, watch tv in the morning, sing in the shower, play sport, etc ... serious and more informal stuff). the number of items is up to you (15 is enough).
Have students stand in a group in the center of the classroom. Tell them they have to listen to you carefully and observe their mates' position in the class.
Then say "those who play sport, stand here, and those who don't, stand over there" (showing different spots in the room) or "people who smoke, you stand by the door, and people who don't, stand by the window" etc ... Students have to go from one spot to the other, according to what they do or don't, until you've enumerated all the activities in your list. Students don't have to say anything but they need to observe the rest of the class.
When the activity's over, have them sit down in pairs or in groups of three, and the language part can start: they have to remember what their partner does or doesn't ("so, you listen to the radio in the morning but you don't smoke and I think you ...). After this, you can ask them to talk about another student from another group (Antonio, he smokes and he listens ... but he doesn´t ... ). A good way of revising questions and negative statements with present simple, vocabulary and getting to know your classmates. Plus they have to move around the classroom and work in pairs, so it's also a way of showing how you're going to work during the course.
You might want to have a quick revision of present simple (+, - and ?) before starting the activity to make sure students use it correctly and write the verbs you're going to use to make sure they understand them all and remember vocabulary for the second part of the activity.
This activity lasts about half an hour (depending on your students ...).
Any good activities?
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I know this could work very well and it would be a lot of fun if you have them moving form spot to spot very quickly. (So not for Seniors classes, eh? Could be dangerous.) But wouldn't you have to pair them or put them in 3s from the start? And 15 activities would mean 15 distinct places the have to move to? which is a lot. Or you just have 4 or 5 spots in the classroom and they serve for multiple activities?
I'll definitely give this one a try but again not in the very first class. I can never find 30 min for straight teaching in that class. For some reason most of my students immediately become obsessed with passing their end of course exam and I spend 40 min explaining the evaluation system.
I like the way you start with activities such as "smoking". You could divide the class into 5-a-day, 10-a-day, 20-a-day, deniers and passive smokers. However I think it might be a good acitivity, which I may even try. I could then pop out for a smoke while they're hopping from spot to spot.
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