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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It is a very good activity for the first class. It is like getting to know your friends. A student finds his/her partner, then they ask each other these questions. It can help students to form que ...
This worksheet is called 'Back to School Worksheet: Names to Know' and it was generously provided by Laura Candler: do not hesitate to visit http://www.lauracandler.com/ for even more teaching ide ...
At the beginning of a new school year you want to create a good atmosphere with your new classes who are not just new to you - they are also new to each other. This worksheet will help them to lea ...
This information gap worksheet can be used to practice in pairs (or mingle) asking and giving personal information, as well as revising the alphabet and the numbers. It would be useful to go throu ...
This is an adaptation of the famous tv show "Pasapalabra". It has been prepared to divide the class into 3 groups. The teacher reads the definition of a word starting with each letter of the alpha ...
Practise "Do you like?" "Yes I do/ No I don't". After completing the exercise students are asked to complete the second exercise (b) and they have to write two sentences "I like ...." "I don' ...
I used Einstein's famous Enigma as a base for exchanging information and presenting ideas or 'brainwaves' in small groups. The discussion must be entirely in English. It's great when the students ...
I used this worksheet as part of a lesson about a bucket list. I showed the students the trailer for "The Bucket List" and explained the idiom "kick the bucket" and explained what a bucket list is ...
This is a game that I very often use while teaching vocabulary. I put pictures with the words or phrases I want my students to practice on their backs. They come to each other and ask various que ...
The last page of the Past Simple Speaking Cards set. Includes general and special types of questions. Good for a speaking activity in class. Have a nice week!
The second part of Past Simple speaking cards set. Aimed at the formation of speaking and parallelly focuses on past simple. Includes both regular and irregular verbs.
It's a speaking activity to talk about kinds of movies/books. Ask people what kind of movies or books they like best. Write each person’s name in the box next to the kind they like. If ...
This is the follow up to "All about me for boys Part A" uploaded previously. The students read and fill in the gaps with the correct question word then interview their partner using full sentences ...
Students fill in the information about themselves. When they are ready, they share their answers with their partner who will have Part B (uploaded separately). The worksheet has been made for Kore ...
This is the follow up to "All about me for girls Part A" uploaded previously. The students read and fill in the gaps with the correct question word, then interview their partner using full sentenc ...
Students fill in the information about themselves and then share with their partner who will have Part B (to be uploaded soon). The worksheet has been made for Korean students. As it is editable y ...
The first set of speaking cards will be helpful when presenting or practicing the use of Past Simple tense. Regular and irregular verbs may be used in the answer. This easy speaking activity help ...
ASKING THE WAY is a worksheet with lots of useful phrases when asking the way. They can be very useful during conversation tasks. There are also 3 exercises on given phrases. In one of them the st ...
A find someone who activity for those returning to school after winter vacation. Always popular with my Korean elementary school students and gives everyone a chance to speak in English. The quest ...
The material consists of 13 cards, each card has 2 parts: the left part contains some personal information about an imaginary person (name, age, occupation, family) and the right one should be fil ...
This is a speaking activity. First, practice the words or phrases ' get up, go to school .... . Student already learned how to telling the time. Students first write the time for the routines a ...
This worksheet is useful for a mingle activity talking about possessions..... The grammar point taught is how to ask and answer about possessions correctly..... In this worksheet the target langua ...
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