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Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Anyone had any that really went over really well?

What'd you do?

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Snowball fight:

Ask them 3 questions, like:

1. What is your favorite food?
2. How many people are in your family?
3. Where did you go to middle school?

Have them write the questions and answers in full sentences on a piece of paper. After they're done, make them stand and separate them into two groups and wad up the paper into a "snowball." Tell them to have a snowball fight on the count of 3! Help them throw and beam a few at some students for good measure. Let this go on for 30 seconds or more. Then everyone picks up a snowball, sits down, and has to read the questions and answers in front of the class. Everyone guesses who it is, or you just have that person say it's their paper.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

I get my boys to do the name poem thing

If you get some coloring stuff for them gussy up the final product they really get into it.

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

For kindy kids who are speaking english for the first time (or just in general) a rousing run od Old Mcdonald works wonders. however, as they don't speak it well you really have to throw your all into it and act like the animal/get the kids to act like an animal. The kids may not know "cow" but they KNOW what a cow sounds like.

dulouz · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus

I like to take money from them and then tell them I will pay them back later and then pay them back.

casey's moon · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: Daejeon

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

TECO · Joined: 20 Jan 2003

How many students - 15 or so?

Introductions / Ice Breakers...

Get them to write things about themselves on a small piece of paper (ie. age, number of people in their family, favourite movie, food or actor, etc, etc). Limit it to maybe 4 pieces of information that they write on each corner of the piece of paper.

The students then walk around the room guessing what the information on the paper means (you might have to emphasize the 'guessing' part of it and tell them not to just tell everyone the answers without having the other students trying to guess). The student answering can also give clues or help if they feel it's too difficult for the other students to answer.

Typically, not all the students get to talk to everyone in the class but if the class is small enough and time permits they could.

Then, after everyone is done, ask a student who he talked to and then ask this student to tell you what he found out about that person. Do this with as many students as time permits. It's a less threatening way for everyone to get to know each other.

Tiger, if you use this, demonstrate it first and they'll get the idea.

I've used this many times before on first day classes and it's better than having them introduce themselves and gets everyone up on their feet and moving around.

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

If you're looking for something for highschool or uni students (or adults) pm me your e-mail address and I'll send you "Getting to Know you Bingo". One of our teachers made it up and it's a great game.

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

cellphone · Joined: 18 Feb 2004

what age range tigerbeer? all ages, or....

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

IF the class is 50 minutes or less a bunch of self-introduction questions helps.

If the level is high enough they can interview one another and report it after.

With kids you might want bingo or go fish or whatever... I guess you know.

endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

five questions.

first i introduce myself, tell them my name, where i'm from, and my age.
then i tell them all to write down five questions they would like to ask about me. they are not allowed to ask my name, my age, or where i'm from, because i just told them.
then after a few minutes i collect the questions and i write the first one on the board. example:
what think you korea?
i ask them if this is right. then i ask if anyone can tell me what's wrong with it. i make the appropriate corrections, and then answer the question.
there's always some joker who tries to ask questions that he or she thinks might be pushing the limits, but those are actually the most fun, and the class always enjoys it.

that said, this works well in a class of six or seven students. anymore than that, and it can be excessive. if there are too many kids in the class, i'll collect their questions, correct them at home, and return them the next day after reading through them and answering them quickly.

peppermint · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject:

canuckistan · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject:

This works great for adults and kids who are a little older (aren't at the yes/no level in English)

After a getting-to-know-everyone class, I do a "History of English" class which explains how English evolved into what it is today. I play a tape of old English (never fails to get giggles) and I also have handouts to show them samples of what old/middle English looked like. It's always a hit--the students enjoy it a lot as they usually don't know the history of the language.