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what is the role of warmups in teaching listening and reading?
When you exercise, a warm-up activity helps you to warm-up your muscles in order to get your body and heart ready for exercising. In terms of listening and reading exercises, how would you explain the role of a warm-up activity now? :)
Some use discussion questions as a warm-up for a text to get people using the vocab that they might encounter. The general idea is to have the effect described by Casiopea.
pre teaching and warm ups 
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