Ice Breakers: BRILLIANT first class warmer

This is a first. Reading all these great ideas gave me one. Have not tried it yet but it could be a winner. Please let me know how it turns out!

All your eggs in one basket.

Elementry up
Large or small groups
Need several strips of paper for each student.
Aim information gathering and presenting

Students write down infoormation about themselves on seperate strips of paper (eg. maried, ... university, tennis... etc) S's scrunch the strips of paper into eggs. Place all their eggs in a basket and distribute randomly. S's unravel an egg at a time and search out the author. Elementry and Pre-intermediate by asking questions. Intermediate and advanced by word assosiation.
First student to finnish wins a chance to share information that they learnt about fellow students.

Part II

Students are then given a name of a fellow student {C} (eg. the person sitting opposite them.) Asking everyone but C, gather as much information as they can and return Cs eggs while introducing C to the class. Students may ask more questions when the introduction is complete.

This is a first. Reading all these great ideas gave me one. Have not tried it yet but it could be a winner. Please let me know how it turns out. If it is any good I might try it myself : )

Jared.H
Thailand
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