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Icebreaker Teaching Ideas

  • Every class needs an icebreaker.
  • Icebreakers are a way to instantly becoming more intimately engaged with students.
  • The ideal icebreaker should be fresh and simple.

Introductory icebreakers primarily for group interaction

10 Really! Elementary ESL classroom icebreakers

Icebreaker in a foreign country

Getting to know you exercise (PDF)

Getting to know you survey (PDF)

New Friends bingo (PDF)

Things to get ’em talking!

Warm-up exercises for ESL students (PDF handouts)

New Year's resolutions lesson plans &
worksheets for talking about the future

4 New Year’s resolutions vocabulary and discussion activities (PDF)

New Year ‘s Resolutions lesson incl. vocabulary exercises (PDF)

New Year’s Resolution vocabulary worksheet (PDF)

My New Year’s Resolutions -personal, family & friends & school (PDF)

New Year’s Resolution Worksheet-goals, behaviours & attitudes (PDF)

English New Year’s Resolutions adverbs of frequency & going to for plans (PDF)

New Year Future Continuous exercise (PDF)

New Year’s resolutions comprehension reading (PDF)

Pre-teaching ideas/picture icebreakers

Partial Pictures teaching idea

Icebreaker prediction exercise using pictures

Lots of picture teaching ideas

Conversation exercises & questions for introductions

Getting to know you (PDF)

Get-to-know-you Icebreakers

Getting to know you questions for students with jobs (PDF)

Getting to Know You Worksheet (PDF)

Learning names

Remembering names worksheet (PDF)

Mind Tools Remembering names

Draw your name

Other Icebreakers