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Games & ice breakers

Games & ice breakers -- Compiled by Norma Jean August 28, 2000 from the Games Brainstorming session, Zhuhai TEFL Conference 2000.

Ice Breakers

All of these are appropriate when the teacher and students don't know each other. They work even when the students do know each other but the teacher doesn't know them.

Name Game. Goal: to learn students' names. Students are in a circle or an oval -- maximum should be 30 -- split larger groups.

- #1 says name with a verb ending in -ing.

- #2 repeats what #1 said and adds his/her own.

- Example:

- #1, "Bobbi talking."

- #2, "Bobbi talking, Sheryn cooking."

- Continue the string around the circle. The last person must remember everyone.

Variation 1 -- using adjectives.

- Example: "Generous Roy, happy Leslie."

Variation 2 -- sounds the same.

- Example: "Smiley Smith, crazy Caroline."