Question About Bellringers

I got this question from a colleague:
Hello Ben I recently bought your TPRS in a year and also the DVD’s.  After watching all the DVD’s I am wondering how or if you do (Bell Ringers, Warm ups, Self Starters)?
I responded:
I don’t have time. For me in my own whacky world, I feel this compulsion to stay in the TL all the time, given the microscopic amount of minutes I actually have available to me and given that I don’t know how to stay in the TL with bellringers because of the vocab mix required to make them work, the mix of L1 and L2. So it’s about available minutes. I do start class everyday with those five words as described on a blog post here in the past few days. But  then to end class, I am always pushing up to that quiz and out they go.
Now, Bryce has his “repasitos”. They are great ways to start class and a lot of people use them. Links to the repasitos on this site are:
https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/04/25/warm-up-activities-as-catalyst-for-ci-bryce-hedstrom/
https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/06/09/repasitos-warm-up-activities-to-generate-pqa-and-ci/
https://benslavic.com/blog/2009/08/09/the-repasito-part-two-what/

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