Icebreaker for Beginners
Divide the students into pairs. If you have an odd number of students then the student without a partner can practice with you. Because the course has just started, the students probably haven’t had a chance to get to know each other yet. To get acquainted and break the ice, each student will ask their partner several everyday questions in English. Give them a couple of minutes each to do this. Then ask each student to take turns introducing his/her partner to the class. Just select a few students if time is limited. Some common everyday questions to use include:
- What is your name?
- Where are you from?
- How old are you?
- Where do you live now?
- What do your parents do for a living?
- What do you like to do when you’re not in English class?
- Why do you want to learn English?
Bump Cards Game
Rearrange the desks or make space so that the students are sitting in a circle. This game is called Bump Cards and can be used with whatever new vocabulary you have just taught the class and want to review. In this example, you will prepare individual cards with different types of animals, birds, and fish the class has learned written on them. Give each student one card and ask them to remember the word written on it. Ask each student to hold their card in front of him/her so that the other students can see it. Select a student to begin the game by saying: my X bumps Y, e.g. my dolphin bumps swan. The student holding the card with swan written on it must immediately respond by saying something such as: my swan bumps elephant. Continue until all students have had a chance to participate.
You can hand out a penalty to any student who fails to provide a new word and stops the flow. For example, the student must tell the class some of the animals, birds, and fish of his/her country, e.g. Spain has a lot of bulls, donkeys, and so on.
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Renting a House Role Play
This role-playing exercise requires two students. Ask for volunteers or select from the class. One student will act as someone looking for a house to rent. The other will act as the landlord of the house. The renter is currently looking around the house and is discussing the house with the landlord. Give them two minutes to prepare some of the things they would talk about such as rent, water costs, electricity costs, telephone costs, Internet costs, rules of the house, nearby amenities, etc.
Parent-Child Conversation Role Play
This role-playing exercise requires two students. Ask for volunteers or select from the class. One student will act as a parent; the other student will play a young teenage son or daughter who has been watching TV for more than two hours. The parent is concerned about the son/daughter because they have not prepared for their exam the next day. Give them two minutes to prepare some of the things they would talk about to resolve this difficult situation. Some useful supplementary vocabulary includes: mathematics, physics, report, program, hurry along, to discipline, and to be concerned about.
Connecting Words Game
Rearrange the desks or make space so that the students are sitting in a circle. You will start the game by saying a word and then ask a student to form a new word which is connected to the previous word, for example “lesson” and the next student can say “class” then “student” and so on. This can be used for any new vocabulary that the class has just learned. To make it more difficult, you can use a two-word phrase instead.
You can hand out a penalty to any student who fails to provide a new word and stops the flow. For example, the student has to give a short summary of his/her hometown to the class. The summary should include the following information: Where is it? How big is it? How many people are there? What is the most famous thing in their hometown? What is the scenery like?
Parent-Child Conversation Role Play
This role-playing exercise requires two students. Ask for volunteers or select from the class. One student will act as a parent; the other student will play a young teenage son or daughter who has been watching TV for more than two hours. The parent is concerned about the son/daughter because they have not prepared for their exam the next day. Give them two minutes to prepare some of the things they would talk about to resolve this difficult situation. Some useful supplementary vocabulary includes: mathematics, physics, report, program, hurry along, to discipline, and to be concerned about.
Connecting Words Game
Rearrange the desks or make space so that the students are sitting in a circle. You will start the game by saying a word and then ask a student to form a new word which is connected to the previous word, for example “lesson” and the next student can say “class” then “student” and so on. This can be used for any new vocabulary that the class has just learned. To make it more difficult, you can use a two-word phrase instead.
You can hand out a penalty to any student who fails to provide a new word and stops the flow. For example, the student has to give a short summary of his/her hometown to the class. The summary should include the following information: Where is it? How big is it? How many people are there? What is the most famous thing in their hometown? What is the scenery like?
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