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Ice Breakers: Activities for the Beginning of Class

Ice Breakers: Activities for the Beginning of Class. Borinquen Writing Project 2010. Learning a language depends on the attitude, personality, and motivation of the learner. Stephen Krashen’s affective filter.

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Ice Breakers: Activities for the Beginning of Class

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  1. Ice Breakers: Activities for the Beginning of Class Borinquen Writing Project 2010

  2. Learning a language depends on the attitude, personality, and motivation of the learner. Stephen Krashen’s affective filter “The affective filter hypothesis says that affective variables like self-confidence and anxiety play a role in language acquisition. When the filter is up – that is, when negative emotional factors are in play – language acquisition suffers. When the filter is down, it benefits.”

  3. Benefits • Reduces both student and instructor anxiety prior to introducing the course • Is a powerful means of fostering both student-student and faculty-student interactions

  4. Benefits • Creates an environment where the learner is expected to participate and the instructor is willing to listen. • Conveys the message that the instructor cares about getting to know the students

  5. Benefits • Makes it easier for students to form relationships early in the semester so they can work together both in and out of class.

  6. Activity 1Building a Classroom Community

  7. Building a Classroom Community:The Items

  8. Building a Classroom Community:The Items

  9. Building a Classroom Community:The Items

  10. Building a Classroom Community:The Items

  11. Building a Classroom Community:The Items

  12. Building a Classroom Community:The Items

  13. Building a Classroom Community:The Items

  14. Me-We Activity 2

  15. Me/WeAll levels-English Each student cuts the word ME from an 8 1/2- by 11-inch sheet of paper. The right leg (vertical line) of the M and the vertical line of the E connect the two letters so the word ME is in one piece. You might provide a tracing pattern for younger students. Have each student write on his or her ME cutout ten things about himself or herself. Then organize students into pairs. Each person uses the facts on the ME cutout to introduce himself or herself to the other person. When the two introductions are complete, students talk about what they have in common. Then they flip the ME cutouts up so they spell WE. The students write the things they have in common on the WE cutout. Students might then transfer the information they learn to a simple Venn diagram.) Finally, students use the ME cutouts to introduce themselves to the rest of the class. After each pair finishes the introduction, the students share those things they found they have in common.

  16. Venn Diagram

  17. My LicenseActivity 3

  18. Food AutobiographyActivity 4 Life is like a box of chocolates.

  19. Other ActivitiesThe family Crest

  20. Resources/Recursos • http://www.educationworld.com/back_to_school/index.shtml#icebreaker • http://vctlc.unm.edu/contents/web_resources/first_day_of_class.html • http://www.queensu.ca/ctl/goodpractice/technology/elearning/Lifesavers/Icebreakers/Icebreakers.shtml

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