Ice-breaking activities and a webquest activity to use in your eTwinning projects. By Sophie Gaiffe, English teacher in the Académie de Nice.
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2. Who is Who?
Goals
Ice-breaking activity to meet partners through a guessing game
Activity for the beginning of any project: any subject, upper-lower
secondary, can be adapted to pupils’ level.
Steps
Length of activity: 2h
Phase 1: first take a group photo, then add numbers to the photo. Can
be done by the teacher or a by a pupil, depending on their age.
Phase 2: project the photo or give each pupil a copy of the picture.
Each pupil writes a short description of her/himself and gives to the
teacher for correction.
3. Phase 3: in the computer room, pupils type their descriptions (text
files).
Phase 4: teacher collects pupils’ description and sends them to the
partners, using the Twinspace. A pupil « administrator » can also do
this task.
Incorporation in lessons plans
Review physical descriptions, colors, prepositions + present-tense
Be and Have (beginning of the school year).
4. French team
Celine is wearing a pink t-shirt and she is at
the background of the picture, she is number
…
Lea has a white shirt and she is at the middle
of the picture, she is number …
Lucie.S is wearing a black t-shirt and a purple
jacket, she is number …
Anne has a grey t-shirt and she is smaller than
the girl on her right, she is number …
Lucie.C has a grey t-shirt and red trousers, she
is number …
Paul-Emile is wearing a black t-shirt and blue
jeans, he is number …
Adrien‘s t-shirt is white and he has blue jeans,
he is number …
“…”
5. Greek team
* My name is Denise. I’m standing between a
girl and a girl. I’m the one who’s wearing a
blouse with shades of blue. I am number…
* My name is Nefeli. I’m wearing a red blouse
with white letters. I am number…
*My name is John. I’m wearing a black jacket
and on my right there is a girl wearing
glasses. I am number…
*My name is Nick. I ‘m standing next to a boy
who is wearing a black jacket. I am wearing
a green T-Shirt and a grey jacket. I am
number…
*My name is Fenia. I’m standing between two
girls. I’m wearing a black blouse and I’ve got
a ponytail. I am number…
“…”
6. Czech team
Markéta is tall and slim. She has got long curly
blond hair. She has got green-blue eyes. She is
13 years old. She is a girl. She has got purple T-
shirt and white-black jeans. She is standing in
the second row. Markéta is number ………
Michael K. is slim. He is tall. He has got short
brown hair. He has got blue eyes. He is 14 years
old. He is a boy. He is standing in the second
row between a boy in black sweatshirt and
a boy in blue shirt. Michael is number ………
Zdeněk is neither small nor tall. He has got
short brown hair. He has got blue eyes. He is 12
years old. He is a boy. He has striped jumper and
blue jeans. He is kneeling in the first row.
Zdeněk is number ………
« … »
7. Our yearbooks
Goals : ice-breaking activity to meet eTwinning partners
Position in the project
After the activity « Who is who ? », at the beginning of the project.
Organization
Time spent on the activity: 2h
Phase 1: each pupil gets a worksheet to fill out by hand (at home if possible)
Phase 2: pupils hand in their worksheet. Major errors are identified and pupils correct their work.
8. Phase 3: in the computer room, pupils type their presentations and save their work on flash
drives/USB sticks.
Phase 4: teacher or pupil administrator collects documents and sends them through the
Twinspace.
Incorpation in lessons plans
Review how to describe yourself, how to describe your family, your hobbies and hopes for a future
(using criteria from European Framework for Language Learning CECRL)
10. Our Webquests
Goals
Activity allows pupils to share their country, region and city through
a webquest they create for their eTwinning partners.
Activity’s place in the project
After the ice-breaking activities
11. Organization
Time spent on the activity: 2 h
Phase 1: in teams, pupils brainstorm questions to ask and find answers
Phase 2: in computer room, pupils do research for websites in English to help
partners find correct responses
Phase 3: teacher or pupil administrator corrects questions and resource websites
and sends them to partners through the Twinspace.