Get students out of their seats and interacting with one another using one of Busy Teachers 408 mingling activity worksheets. They are free and a great way to increase student speaking time. This mingling worksheet, for example, focuses on talking about time and routines. It includes some key target vocabulary for beginners and could easily be used as a warm-up, practice, or review activity. If your class is studying a different topic, you can simply search for a worksheet that is more appropriate for your students.
Mingling activities are important because they increase the amount of time individual students have to practice speaking while building their self confidence. Often students are too shy to speak in front of the entire class but since the whole classroom is buzzing with voices during these types of exercises, students are more willing to express themselves.
Most mingling exercises should be fast-paced so keep them short.
Students must then work hard to complete their objective within the time limit and will be less easily distracted. Mingling activities are difficult to monitor so be sure that students have plenty of practice using the target structures and vocabulary before starting.
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This worksheet will help your students (adults) to learn to discuss different kind of questions (lifestyle, favourite things etc) . You may use it to work both in pairs or in a small group as a wa ...
A 2 page lesson plan on the topic of "Healthy Lifestyle". Includes: reading, vocabulary, discussion questions, grammar and phrasal verbs. How to use these lesson plans: 1. Start with voc ...
These speaking cards were designed to make simple controlled conversation using regular verbs in the past for elementary students. There are two cards labelled A/B and eight questions in each card ...
A find someone who worksheet with questions especially for teens and young adults to get to know each other (better) and to get them talking to each other. This worksheet can also be used as ...
A 2 page lesson plan on topic of "After a Vacation". Includes: reading, vocabulary, discussion questions, grammar and phrasal verbs. How to use these lesson plans: 1. Start with vocabula ...
This worksheet is quite useful for all age groups to practice introducing one self and other people . It's also a good way to start the first day of the school year in terms of having students get ...
Find someone who cards to play with students in class. Students should ask questions to their classmates and complete the information. You can use them to practice or revise past simple vs. p ...
Main focus: speaking. How: students can work in pairs or in smaller groups. Instructions:Players debate which of the things is better! Give students some time to think of good arguments. ...
It is a speaking presentation skill test assessment sheet. Busy teachers can use it readily. Assessment criteria are specified in details. I hope this assessment sheet will be useful for fresher ...
It is a speaking skill test assessment form. Busy teachers can use it readily. Assessment criteria are specified in details. ESL tests such as PET , FCE have 4 sessions : speaking skills, listenin ...
The worksheets have cue cards with prompts to talk about different topics. They can be used as FCE Speaking Test practice exercises. Cut the cue cards, and give each student a card each. Then, let ...
Based on a find-someone-who mingling activity this game will be of great interest for learners of elementary levels. By asking personal questions related to age, place of living, job, marita ...
This is a handout based on the teaching of pragmatics. Studying pragmatics offers a learner a real insight into how language is connected with culture. This particular handout, which is based on p ...
Students imagine that they are at a party. By means of cards they have a new identity. Questions help them to be confident while having conversations. Their new images are funny and I'm sure stude ...
Adapt the worksheet to reflect yourself and then allow ss to complete their own form of the worksheet. Ss can then compare how much they know about thier teacher and themselves. Further discussion ...
In this activity you will find a set of pictures with animals and cards that together constitute an exciting game ‘Find an Animal’. At first you assign an animal or bird to be found th ...
This is a speaking activity that might be used as a warm-up where students will have to discuss how men, women, computers, cars, clothes and houses look like in future. At first everyone is given ...
Here you can find two pages of questions for speaking activity in your class, to discuss how people ask for help and what their reactions are in everyday situations. There is a short text as an in ...
This activity includes a "Top 10 movie characters of the 2000’s" (such as Jack Sparrow, Harry Potter and Wolverine). It contains an exercise to match them to their famous sentences, as well ...
This lesson is usually one of my favourites. I start off by discussing the apocalypse and eliciting some vocab such as doomsday and etc. Then I get them into the story by diving them into 3 groups ...
A listening activity on Bad Habits. It's a very nice exercise (you can download the audio here: http://listenaminute.com/b/bad_habits.html ), which includes a matching vocabulary exercise, the tra ...
This is a great back to school ice breaker activity! Each child gets a copy of the Ice Cream Social printable. They must each ask eight classmates their name and favorite ice cream flavor and fill ...
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