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Does anyone know any good Ice Breaker games?
ssong:
There's an ice breaker that can help you learn your students' name. I'm not too sure what it's called, but I called it Newspaper (only because I wadded up Newspapers to make a hitting stick). But the ice breaker is there's one person in the middle (IT) of the circle and starting with one person (sitting down) he or she will yell out another students name and the IT person will have to find that person and (Kindly) smack him or her before she yells out another person's name. Simple rules: no calling out your neighbor's names and whoever gets out three times will have to do something in front of everyone.
I've found that this game may sound boring at first, but it the students enjoyed it and got really competitive. :)
joel.badali:
You could give each student a piece of a puzzle, and they have to work together- teacher included- to put the puzzle together. The end result could be a photo of your hometown leading into the intro, or just a giant 'hello!'.
For students more proficient in English, you could play around the world. Every student is sitting in a chair (arranged) in a circle, and you say I've been around the world, but I've never been to ___, (or I've never ___). Students that have done this or been to the place stand up and must find another chair to sit in. The next student sitting out repeats "I've been around the world but I've never___". You could use your coteacher to assist with translation. You could even act it out, i.e. I've been around the world but I've never eaten KIMCHEE! (eating motion). Every student should get up to swap seats.
Make sense?
mystic951:
Bring some Relia to class. Things that describe you, ya know? Like, if you play hockey, maybe bring a hockey puck or a photo of a hockey puck. they try to guess whats in the bag, have a good time with that, pull stuff out, describe what it means to you/what it tells about you to the best of your abilities and for the closing have them go home and create their own bag that describes them and bring it to school for next class :)
seankilleen:
It's not a game as such but I made up a powerpoint about me and where I'm from (South Africa), for grades 1-4 it was very simple such as showing different sports and animals and having them give the names. Sometimes I would ask their favourite animal or what sport they play, my co-teacher had to translate sometimes but they seemed to enjoy it.
For grades 5-6 it was a bit more advanced as I showed various cities and even world cup stadiums, I then would ask them what they see and write down whatever it was, I found I was able to get very good answers from them and give them some nice details about myself and country.
At the end of the lesson, when they would line up they had to individually say what they learned before they could leave.
My students were of a decent level though, especially the fifth and sixth graders but they all seemed to really enjoy it.
chichi3507:
Hi
I usually do TEACHER'S BINGO on the first day with my students.
First, teacher introduce themself (name,age,hobby,nationality,etc) give as many information as possible but not too complicating^_^
then give students a bingo sheet and tell them to write any words they heard or remember from teacher's self introduction
and play bingo games~
enjoy~
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