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 is a set of 15 flashcards which you can use as a warm up activity at your lesson. There is a picture and the task on each card. For example, name 5 things that irritate you.. My adult stud ...
Activity inspired by the new segment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. There are some funny status and comments posted on Facebook, which are all real, and an exercise with the vocabulary used. There a ...
I came across this wonderful video and decided to create this class with the clip. You might get your students to seat in an outside area and pretend they are in a ball pit so they can ask t ...
Teaching grammar through speaking is one of the most difficult things to do for a teacher. With this worksheet you will be able to help your students use time adverbs such as already/yet/since/ago ...
This exercise can be used as a warm-up speaking activity for an intermediate level. If the class size is small, this activity can be used as the whole class activity. Give a card to each student a ...
This worksheet can be used as an ice breaker at the begining of a course or also as a fun warmer for the class. Students will walk around asking questions to their classmates and looking for affir ...
A large information gap comprising 7 worksheets and a master sheet. Students will have to mingle and ask several other students to complete the information for each person or couple on the sheet. ...
This is a great gap-fill exercise to practice asking and answering questions in Past Simple for elementary students. This activity can involve up to 8 people with the aim to collect all the inform ...
This worksheet can be used to enhance vocabulary related to common subjects such as music, cinema, sport, etc. It includes a section for Phrasal Verbs, which students usually find challenging, and ...
This is a PPT version of the Would You Rather speaking game. It is aimed at teens with a mixture of funny and serious questions. Don't forget to encourage the students to explain their preferences ...
For upper elementary to intermediate, a really cool activity (all-around project) with lots of worksheets, 27 dialogue cards, vocabulary sheets etc. Perfect for 11-18 year olds. Personalities, lik ...
This is a worksheet I use for beginners to review the present simple, verbs related to everyday activities, and time. Each student asks three others about their daily activities, and then makes se ...
This lesson plan and worksheets aim to encourage students to practice their speaking skills, giving their opinion on certain statements the teacher will read out loud about politics using specific ...
A set of 10 questions, each of which begins with "What do you need..." There are several ways how to use them. Elementary students can make word lists as answers; these can be more specifically ma ...
This is a bingo game for business students. I usually do this a little different than regular bingo games. Instead of calling out the information in the boxes, I have the students interview each-o ...
Who amongst us does not carry fond memories of a visit to the circus when we were young? A circus is a fascinating visual experience which gets etched deep into our memory. I have used the theme o ...
This ppt is for making children understand the names of the stationery / supplies names which they use in school every day. Ho wever many of them are not aware the names of these items. The ppt ...
I made this bingo keeping in mind a few things. Children use a lot of stationery/school supplies items every day in the school, but they do not know the correct names of them or the correct pronu ...
24 general questions to cut out and have students ask each other. This was very useful because the topics are varied and random, containing different structures, so it's good to get people speakin ...
Excellent mix and mingle activity, good for speaking practice, to conclude the class. Students need to find a peer who completed certain tasks and put his/her name. Interview the classmates using ...
Six pages of general questions to cut out and have students ask each other. Topics are very general, varied and random, so I usually use the questions as a warmer or a first class to get people sp ...
This is a mingling activity I created to teach adjectives to elementary students. It goes with a presentation. Explain that their character depends on the colour they like, and now they may find o ...
This is a conversation plan that can be adapted for all levels and be used in both groups and individual classes. It is extensive and my students of all ages seemed to enjoy it as it was relevant ...
This Power Point presentation will help you on the Ecological topics about saving our flora and fauna. People use different methods and they have made various parks as National, Nature Reserve, Zo ...
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