ESL Icebreaker: Who’s in Our Room
Who’s in our room is a simple first class activity for a group of young learners who don’t know each other. This activity is best used with lower level young learners. Students are given a wordsearch puzzle which contains the names of each of the students in class. The names of the students are anagrams of their names and students need to first ask the others in class their name and how to spell it and then they need to find each persons name in the word search.
Activity time: 15 minutes approx
Materials required: A prepared wordsearch with each students name.
Skills Practiced: Speaking, question forming, spelling, alphabet
Level: Young learners. Beginners +
Activity time: 15 minutes approx
Materials required: A prepared wordsearch with each students name.
Skills Practiced: Speaking, question forming, spelling, alphabet
Level: Young learners. Beginners +
Method
- First get a list of all your students’ names and prepare a wordsearch with each of their names. Below the wordsearch form an anagram of each students names.
- In class, tell students that they must first ask each other their names and ask them to spell their names. After, they must find each student’s name in the wordsearch.
- Give a treat to the students who find all the names first. Later, test students memory by asking them to recall each students name.
- Enjoy and have fun.
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Tell Us About Yourself – In Tell Us About Yourself, the teacher passes around a bag of sweets. The teacher tells the students to take as many sweets as they want but not to eat them just yet. Once all the students have a sweet, the students first count how many sweets they have and tell the teacher.
Human Spelling – In this activity, students are put into teams and given a clue. First they must work out what word the clue is and then spell the word using only their bodies.
Dead or Alive – A simple first class speaking activity for teens and adults.
Numbers in my Life – A simple first class activity where students speak about important numbers in their lives.
5 First Day Activities – Five first class activities for young learners, teens and adults.
ESL Vocabulary Fortunes – an online game for teens and adults that is a great way to practice vocabulary on many topics.
ESL Creativity Activity – a simple creativity activity to get students thinking
Find more first class icebreakers for all levels here.
Find new games every week on our YouTube channel
