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The first class of an English course is absolutely vital. Because every student, male or female, 5 or 40 yrs old, has a a deadly bitch inside. If half of the first class is not spend in some sort of game / ice breaker they will never forgive you and every class will turn harder. U must show them the nicest you, and this is not only for the first class of the first course, is for every course you do. First language must be permitted if they are novice, but after a 50 hours course, Ss must be able to do this simple things in English.

Therefore, here are the activities:

Ice breaker: tell-about-each other game. Everybody says his name and one thing he likes, the second says his and the ones of the previous and you go acummulative. the mere fear of not remembering something about one of the classmates will get attention from them, you get to know them, to memorize the names and to throw away 25 minutes. Isn't it perfect? you can add a thread and make it in aleatorial order.

another Ice Breaker: this works better for kids. You give them a famous Character name in a fold paper. They must talk like the character introducing themselves (for novice) or introduce the character (if their level allows it)

Behind them The objective of an Ice breaker is merely paralinguistic. describing something about themselves, ss realize the class is gonna be about them, are integrated as a group. Other ice breakers must be fun, motivational, and help you and the group to know each other.