ICE BREAKERS; activity to cool down the class situation

Well, sometimes when I am teaching, i get bored or, even, my students get bored. To avoid this many things to do. The most important is never teach in a mere way. You just stand in the center of the classroom, holding a marker and a ruler. 'Shut up', you suddenly scream out seeing your noisy students. Or, you just ask your students to write and write. Hmmmm... If you always do this during teaching. I 'm sure not only you but also your students will get bored. Ok, I have some activities to make the class situation interesting and exciting. You can find ten ice breaker activities to apply in your class. This site provides some games and activities helping you to cheer up the situation. The activities do not require certain equipments. In my opinion, the ideas are very helpful in my classroom. Thanks alot. If you're interested, Plese visit HERE

Tic Tac Toe

This is another game I like to play with my students. it's easy and interesting to play. First, ask your students to choose an opponent. Then, decide who will get 'X' and 'O'. After that, in turn, give a question. If they could answer, they might draw an 'X' or an 'O'. The student who could draw three Xs or three Os in straight line (vertically, horizontally or diagonally) win the game. The question can be anything, depending on what are your students learning at this time. I usually play this game in the end of lesson. Instead of just asking them, this game offers different learnning atmosphere. Just try it.

Let's play Hangman

When I teach my students for long time and they start to get bored, I offered them to play a game. One of the games I often play with is "Hangman". This is a word guessing game and very good for students, first, to avoid their boredom during studying and, second, to test their vocabulary mastery. This game could be done in a group but it will be more challenging to play individually. This word game does not need special media, what you need is only chalk or marker and a board.
This is the rule of the game:
First : Draw a picture of a pole with a rope.



Second: Write the alphabet from A-Z under the pole.

Third : Write some words on a piece of paper and fold it. The words can be food, colour and so on. Put the paper in a bottle and ask your students to take the paper. This means that the student himself choose the word he is going to guess. Take the paper from the studens. Don't let him open it.
Fourth: Make underscores as many as the alphabets of the words. For example the word 'rabbit' have six alphabets.

Fifth : Ask your student to guess the word (e.g:rabbit) by saying the alphabet, not guess whole word directly. Whenever he says one of the word you have (e.g rabbit) for instance 'a', you write the alphabet 'a' in the correct order of the word.

But, if he say the alphabet is not one of the alphabets in the word you have (a.g rabbit), for example he says 'c'. Cross the false alphabet and draw a head under the pole.

Fifth: The game ends when the student is hung because of failing in guessing word or he succeeds guessing the whole word.