363 FREE Warmers, Ice-Breakers and Fillers For The ESL Classroom
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Planning a lesson is no easy task, especially if you're about to introduce a difficult topic. Sometimes, you need a little bit of something extra to really make your lesson flow. For this reason, ESL teachers usually use warmers and fillers. Warmers are used in lessons to ease the students into the topic you're going to present. Along the same lines, fillers are used to reinforce topics or follow up with extra practice for students. BusyTeacher.org has 363 warmer and filler worksheets to make your lesson run smoothly without skipping a beat.

The beauty of using warmers and fillers is that very little planning goes into using them. That’s great because it cuts your planning time by a lot, and also cuts out any awkward downtime in the classroom. These worksheets are helpful when it comes to grammar, vocabulary, writing, or even listening and speaking practice.

These warmer and filler worksheets can be used in several ways. Some can be used as discussion topics to get your students speaking. Some can be used to review grammar topics you have covered in the past. Another great warmer is a writing practice worksheet, which gives students sentences like “This morning I…” and students write down what they did that morning. There are endless possibilities to what you can do in your classroom with these worksheets.

Another great feature of these warmer/filler worksheets is that most can be used for all levels. However, if you need a worksheet for a specific level, the descriptions of all worksheets on BusyTeacher.org show the levels for which they're appropriate . You can even reuse them for your other classes of different levels. Not sure if a certain worksheet is right for your lesson? No problem! Just click on the thumbnail to preview the worksheet and see if it’s right for your class.

Don’t worry about registering or subscribing, since all worksheets on BusyTeacher.org are free to download, and there's no limit to how many you can download! You can use one or two of our worksheets for your lessons every day. All worksheets on BusyTeacher.org were created and submitted by fellow ESL teachers from all over the world. They've been used in classrooms, too - so rest assured that these worksheets are tried and true.

If you have some worksheets of your own that you've found useful in your lessons, why not share them with other ESL teachers to use in their lessons as well? Upload your worksheets to BusyTeacher.org by clicking the link at the bottom of this page titled “Submit a worksheet,” and join the hundreds of thousands of ESL teachers who already use BusyTeacher.org for their lesson planning needs.

Make BusyTeacher.org your number one online resource for worksheets by bookmarking us today. With 363 warmers and fillers, lesson planning will be a breeze. Get started by checking out our most popular warmers and fillers below.

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Spellcheck

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(Focus on pronunciation & spelling.) Eye halve a spelling checker That came with my pea sea. Plane as day it shoes four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a ...
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The Diminishing Sentence

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Have your students add one word at a time to some basic sentence you write on the board, making the sentence as long as possible. See an example below:   The fat and ugly sisters who tried ...
4 Views 6,898 All

True Or False

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The students think of three sentences, two are facts and one is a lie. One by one, students introduce themselves and say their three sentences. The rest of the class has to guess which one is a l ...
4 Views 5,372 All

Imagine A Photo

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To get students to share information about themselves. I ask them to imagine that they have brought 4 of their favorite photos from home which represent events, people or places that are importan ...
2 Views 5,394 All

Goodbye

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Tell them to imagine that this is the last class period, and they should stand up and pretend that they are saying farewell. If the students seem reluctant, help them with a few useful phrases suc ...
2 Views 6,482 All
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Pair Interview

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Ss interview their partners, then introduce their partners to the class.    “This is my friend, Jim Thomson, he lives in Dundee, etc...". Simple enough, but the variations are r ...
5 Views 5,930 All

Similarities

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This activity requires no preparation. The students must ask each other questions until they find three things that they have in common. They must be things that are not obvious. For example, the ...
5 Views 6,012 All

Learning Names

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1. DRAW on the board as many objects as the letters in your name. The first letter of the name of each object must be a letter in your name. Draw the objects at random order.   2. Have your ...
5 Views 6,687 All

Shout Out

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Ss shout out the words they know in English. Then they use them to make the longest sentense possible.   Put them into groups and tell them to make a list of all the words they know in Engl ...
9 Views 7,136 All
Warmer: Name As Many...

Warmer: Name As Many...

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This 'Name As Many ... as possible' activity works very well as a warmer to start a lesson - hand out the cards to the teams or individual students and have them compete (orally if used with Inter ...
39 Views 28,033 ElemPre-IntInt

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