IDEAS FOR STARTING THE LESSON: SONGS TO SAY GOOD MORNING

Teachers have different ways to start our English lessons, in order to get children's attention and keep them involved and interested in the lesson, ready to learn. We can use the following options, always trying to develop oral communication in our young learners:

• Greetings and forms of address:

• Checking attendance: we can start a small conversation with our children as well as calling their names. 
  
• Rearrange the classrom: We need some more space for today's lesson -you there- can you help me move some tables back?
• Do question routines, e.g. days of the week, the weather, birthdays... Can anybody help me to remember what's the date today?
• Play a game
• Sing a song. Children, especcially young learners, enjoy singing songs. Here we have some examples of songs to say good morning: 

Here we have an example of a sequence we can use to start our English lesson with year 1/year 2 children: 

Ways of starting lessons