The Role of Warm-Up Plays in Classes teaching English as a Foreign Language

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, University of Paderborn (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Diagnose & Förderung (G & HRSGe), Schwerpunkt Kl. 1 - 7, language: English, abstract: Knowing that warm-ups are supposed to be important in the context of classrooms that are teaching English as a foreign language, this thesis will analyse its relevance in-depth. By doing so, the main question of this work will be: Which Role Do Warm-Ups play in English as foreign language-Lessons? Getting to know how and why these activities are crucial for the affected students is surely interesting and beneficial for teachers-to-be as they need to focus on organising their lessons and making their students learning progress top priority. In order to find an answer to the main issue of this work, the first step will be to examine the warm-up as an own lesson phase. Secondary, the positive effects of using such a lesson phase will be described. Lastly, important instructions for the use of warm-ups will be given. In the end, the most important aspects of the analysis will be summarised in a conclusion.