Hello all, Chris here. Today I would like share one of the icebreaker activities I often use on the first day of class to help students get to know one another, and to provide them with a chance to use their language skills right away. The activity takes the form of an interview, however, to add a twist to it, the teacher can make the students have to find a specific person to interview by writing a specific detail into the top blank. For example,
Find someone who is not wearing jeans. This ensures that students will not just interview the person sitting next to them or a friend they have in class but rather it forces them to get up and move about, in some cases having to ask their fellow students if they are the correct person. The instructor should take a few minutes before class begins (as the students are walking in) to create pairs ahead of time by matching up the people in the top blank. In other words, Student A must find a student who is the tallest person in class (Student B) while Student B must find someone who is wearing a sports shirt (Student A). Then the instructor would try to create more pairs for the other students in class. The students themselves will not know about the pairings ahead of time of course. The interview itself consists of nine questions and is provided below.
Erster Tag – Wer sind deine Nachbaren?
Finden Sie jemanden der _______________________
Danach stellen Sie ihm/ihr die folgenden Fragen. Zum Schluss werden Sie diese Person der Klasse vorstellen.
1. Wie heißt du? ____________________________________
2. Woher kommst du? _______________________________
3. Wie ist das Wetter in ___________/ den USA?__________
4. Gefällt dir das Wetter? Ja / Nein
5. Was machst du gerne am Wochenende?
_________________________________________________
6. Was für ein Auto fährst du/möchtest du fahren?
_________________________________________________
7. Was ist dein Lieblingsessen? ________________________
8. Gefällt dir Deutsch? Ja / Ja
9. Etwas interessantes: _______________________________
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