8 Must-Use Icebreakers For Your Language Lessons. Simple ideas to help your students get to know each other in all language classrooms

8 Must-Use Icebreakers For Your Language Lessons


8 Must-Use Icebreakers For Your Language Lessons. Fun Icebreakers for All Language Classrooms

8 Must-Use Icebreakers For Your Language Lessons

A list of 8 Must-Use Icebreakers For Your Language Lessons to help your students get to know each other

Icebreakers are activities that help students get to know each other. The term “icebreaker” comes from the idiomatic expression, “to break the ice,” meaning “to attempt to become friends.” These icebreaker activities are intended to help a teacher, especially in that first week of a class, in order to establish classroom rapport and help students to feel comfortable with each other.

Icebreaker activities are essential precisely because language is a skill that must be practiced within groups, and that you must establish groups wherein learners feel comfortable to share, make attempts to speak new grammatical items, and even make mistakes and take risks. Icebreaker activities are also a good idea when a new learner or learners enters a classroom, or whenever you view that learners are not speaking freely with each other.

Most icebreaker activities simply have a number of interesting and personal questions, and offer ways to have students stand up and move around a classroom.

A good icebreaker generally gets students thinking and moving, and elicits a desire to share not only about yourself, but about other classmates


Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

~

Flora Lewis

8 Must-Use Icebreakers For Your Language Lessons

What follows are a few very simple ideas to help stimulate interaction and thought in an classroom.

More Than Name Tags

Here is an example

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String Get-to-Know-You

Here are some examples

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Find Someone Who

Here are some examples

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Here are some bingo games



Three Objects in a Backpack

Here is an example

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Here are some “All about me” Worksheets


Sentence Starters: What’s My Line?

Value Lines

Toilet Paper Caper

M&M’s

8 Must-Use Icebreakers For Your Language Lessons

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Icebreakers For Your Language Lessons

8 Must-Use Icebreakers For Your Language Lessons

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