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Ritual
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04 Nov 2022 |
Posted by Annette Benson
An activity from Thiagi: "As a teenager, if you ever desperately wanted to belong to a group but you were not permitted to do so, you know how it feels to be excluded. This jolt deals with the...
https://hubicl.org/members/1005/collections/communication-and-empathy
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Personal Identity Wheel, Social Identity Wheel, and Spectrum Activity
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06 Feb 2022 |
Posted by Sharon L Borkowski
Personal Identity Wheel challenges participants to reflect on their identities beyond social groups and get to know others in the group. They brainstorm words that describe their personal...
https://hubicl.org/members/5300/collections/for-asl-280
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Conversation starters are a great resource for language teachers
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18 Jan 2022 |
Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair
Whether you are assigning conversation partners amongst your own students, or pairing them with native speakers externally, it is extremely useful to provide some structure and guidance for their...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/cercll-collection-for-language-teachers
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Icebreakers with physical props
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18 Jan 2022 |
Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair
For those of you who like to give your students something physical to manipulate, these experiential tools are great for icebreakers as well as debriefing learning. My absolute favorite is the...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/cercll-collection-for-language-teachers
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Icebreakers that highlight culture
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18 Jan 2022 |
Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair
Two of my favorite culturally focused icebreakers are Voices from the Past and the Name Game. You can read what I wrote about them in this TESOL collection or visit them directly in the toolbox....
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/cercll-collection-for-language-teachers
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Icebreakers
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18 Jan 2022 |
Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair
In any collection for teachers I like to include a few icebreakers that are appropriate to the teaching context. Many teachers overlook the teaching potential of icebreakers, which are useful for...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/cercll-collection-for-language-teachers
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Mini Metaphors
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03 Nov 2020 |
Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair
This is one of my favorite ice-breaker activities, and it can also be used as a debriefing/reflection tool. It is just a collection of little charms and miniature objects, but in my experience...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/intercultural-activities-for-tesoltefl
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Icebreakers that Teach: The Name Game and Voices from the Past
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03 Jul 2020 |
Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair
If you were to click on the Discover top menu and choose Tags, you could search for a term such as Icebreaker. Forty-three tools come up in that search. We think of these tools as...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/intercultural-activities-for-tesoltefl
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Guidance for students as they get to know one another
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10 Oct 2019 |
Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair
This set of questions might be a good way for pairs or small groups to get to know each other in a COIL/international virtual education experience. I would encourage the use of synchronous meeting...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/ve-coil
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The Name Game - A great icebreaker for COIL
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07 Oct 2019 |
Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair
This is another way for students in a COIL experience to get to know each other with an added cultural layer to the introductions. You'll need to modify it for a virtual setting. I think it...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/ve-coil
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Voices from the Past - Great icebreaker for COIL that digs deep into cultural knowledge
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07 Oct 2019 |
Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair
I think this icebreaker is a great way to move beyond students in each group learning each others' names to a deep exploration of cultural values expressed in sayings heard during...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/ve-coil
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Artful Closer
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/99
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Beach Ball Ice Breaker
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/256
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Big Wind Blows, The
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/501
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Birds of a Feather
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/103
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Chain of Diversity
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/382
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Complimentary Round Table
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/137
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Computer Keyboard Keys
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/836
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Conversation Starters
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/143
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Conversation Starters: 200 questions to get to know someone
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/479
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Core Cultural Values and Culture Mapping
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/363
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Different Similarities
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/95
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Draw a House
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/672
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Familiar and Unfamiliar
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/470
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Five Minute Poem, The
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/571
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Five Nosy Questions
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/497
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Hand Shake Mingle
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/771
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Human Values Continuum
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/37
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I Am From Poems
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/210
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I Am Poems
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/132
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Icebreaker Grab Bag
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/572
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Intercultural People Bingo
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/530
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Lemons
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/44
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Magic Spelling
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/351
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Meet the Trainer
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/220
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Miniature Metaphors
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/141
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Name Roulette
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/826
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Newton
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/221
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One Will Get You Ten
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/114
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Peek-a-Who Names Review
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/827
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Personal Identity Wheel
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/574
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Pick-a-Postcard
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/142
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Ritual
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/226
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Six Differences
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/107
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Snowball
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/463
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Social Identity Wheel
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/575
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Spectrum Activity, The, Questions of Identity
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/576
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Speed Friending
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/407
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Surprising Sentence
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/117
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Team Tally
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/824
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Thumb Wars
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/133
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Twenty-Five Questions
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/1
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Voices from the Past (Name Tags)
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/77
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Walk Apart, Walk Together
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/381
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Web of Connectedness
https://hubicl.org/toolbox/tools/577