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First Class – An Excellent Icebreaker
This game is designed to make students and the tutor get to know each other. If the group don’t know each other, it’s a great exercise in giving first impressions, if they do, the tutor can learn a lot from them about the dynamics of the group. After playing this the tutor will know the names of all the students and a little about every class member too.
Timing – Thirty minutes.
Group – 4 + students, any age (See how to play) and ability group can play this game.
You need – A whiteboard, whiteboard markers, the name table below.
Setup – First write these unfinished statements on the whiteboard.
- … has a large family.
- … has a small family.
- … likes football.
- …hates football.
- …drives carefully.
- …drives too fast.
- …likes shopping.
- …doesn’t like shopping.
- …has a neat room.
- …has a messy room.
- …never drinks alcohol.
- …drinks alcohol.
- …came to class to study.
- …came to class to have fun.
- …can cook well.
- …can’t cook.
- …likes loud music.
- …likes gentle music.
- …wants to go home.
- …wants to stay here.
How to play – Ask the students to write out the sentences 1 – 20 (omit 5,6,11 & 12 for younger players) and add a name of someone who in the classroom at the time for each question, if you want to be included in this game, that’s fine too. Students are not allowed to write their own name for any of the answer.
When this part of the exercise is complete, the tutor can start asking the questions to each student from left to right. Example:
“Ali, who has a large family?”
“Khalid.”
“Antoinne, who has a large family?”
“Khalid.”
Until every member of the class has answered. For each answer, the tutor should put a mark under the appropriate name in the table below. When the scores are toted up at the end of a round the teacher asks the student with the highest score whether this information is correct or not. Example:
“Khalid, your classmates say that you have a large family, is that true?”
“Yes, I have two sisters and five brothers.”
The tutor then moves on to the next question and repeats the exercise until all of the questions have been asked.
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