Ice-breaking+games

1-Introduction
For the first time I enter a class, I ask students to write their names on sheets of paper and put them in front of their desks so I can see them and call the students by their names from the first day. I use these sheets in introducing a game I will call it "names' game". This game only works if students do not know each other and this is their first day. I begin the game by saying my name and ask the student after me to say my name and his/her name. Then, the student after him will say my name, the name of the student before him and finally his name. So, the last person in the class has to remember all the names that were said. This breaks ice from the beginning and set a nice introduction between students.

2-Introduction
Another way to get students know each other is to distribute random pictures of celebrities cut into two halves. Each one of them has to find his/her partner. Then, after pairing up, they have to answer questions written on board. These questions can be for example:  1- Name  2- Favorite food  3-Work/ favorite place of vacation  4- If they were a minister, what ministry would they like to head and why?

3- Two Truths and a Lie
 Each participant should think of two truths about him/herself and one lie and other students should guess the lie. The winner is the one who takes more points by telling people's lies. Teacher can keep record of points or students can do it for themselves.

4- Bingo
This is a real good game for both basic English levels and advanced ones. All what you have to do is distribute a sheet of paper divided into 25 squares. Those 25 squares will have different sentences about hobbies, habits, etc... For example: I like watching T.V. Of course the difficulty of the sentences can vary according to the English level of students. Students should be able to fill 5 squares horizontally, vertically, or diagonally with five names of their classmates having the same interest, hobby, habit. The winner is the fastest in getting the names. In this activity students should ask each other yes/no questions; do you like watching television? etc.. according to the sentences they have in the squares. They should stand and mingle to get the names of other students.



5- Chinese Whisper
This is a good game to practice concepts. Form a circle of your students while sitting or standing. Whisper an adjective ( if you want to practice adjectives), a sound (if you want to practice phonetics), etc...Then, the next person has to whisper what you said to the next person and so on. Then, the last person should say out load what they heard. Usually it's not the same word the first person said and that brings laughter in the class.

6-Name Description

 You can describe your name, instead of saying their names they can describe it and let other students guess it.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7- Matching game

Each student tells something about him/herself, place of travel, favorite food, then they write that on a piece of paper and you collect the papers. Put the papers in a bag and ask students to take a paper each and try to know the person who said that.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8- Speed Dating

Students sit facing each other and try to find out a good match to be partners with in a company's project. They should spend 1 to 2 minutes with each person to find out who is the most suitable person to be paired with. They can ask any questions about the other person. They sit in two lines facing each other.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9- In the Hot Seat

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A student sits in front of the class, s/he says something, s/he did recently and other members ask three questions about this activity. The student sitting on the hot sear has to answer quickly. For example, ' I went to a movie yesterday', students would ask: ' what was the name of the movie?', 'did you like it?' ' where did you watch it?'