Ice breaker is the best way to heat up a new class, where
the students haven’t known each other. It helps them to be more confident,
risk-taking, communicative, and happy to work together with other learners. In
addition, it helps them to be focus on the language lesson rather than on other
distractions.
While the warmers is useful at the beginning of the lesson
with a class where the students already know each other. Here I have gathered
some ice breakers and warmers which will be useful in language classroom. It
will be updated weekly………
Match the person to the information
An ice breaker uses general descriptive language. It helps
students to know each other by hearing, reading, then trying to retrieve a
piece of information about them.
Preparation: two strips of card or paper about 10 cm x 2 cm
for each learner.
Procedure
1.
Give the learners two cards
each and ask them to write their name on one card and a sentence about
themselves on the other. For example:
Card 1 : DAVID
Card 2 : I like walking in the country and looking at nature
The name should be written in capital letters, so that the handwriting on
the two cards cannot be easily matched, or it would also help to use a
different pen for each card.
2.
Put the learners into
groups and have them take turns introducing themselves to the group and reading
out their sentences.
3.
Tell the learners to
shuffle the group’s cards together, then lay them out face down on a table.
4.
The learners take turns to
try to find matching pairs of cards. To do this, they turn two cards face up.
If they think they have found a pair, they point at the relevant person and
say, for example: this is David. He likes walking in the country and looking
at nature. If they are correct, they keep the cards. If they are wrong,
they turn them back on the table face down.
Source: game for language learning, Andrew Wright et
al.
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