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 in fact a simplified version of a longer activity my students love (which I'm also explaining in the worksheet). In fact you can use it as a warm up before any lesson, and it works especia ...
This is a great exercise to learn/revise • Names and spelling of common classroom items • alphabet pronunciation • names of members of the class Before this task check the class i ...
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Put the following words in order:
many people / everybody / hardly anybody / almost everybody / nobody / most people / a few people
Then match this second set of phrases to phrases in ...
It is Sunday,and you are at the local park where there is a morning flea market.
Sellers:
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A warm-up activity for a first day class. Each student is given a piece of paper with some information about their teacher, they have to memorize it. Then they stand up and share the information. ...
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For tweens and teens, this worksheet works as a speaking practice for the question "how do you get to...". Students mingle asking the question and ticking the corresponding box for each means tran ...
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This worksheet can help elementary students develop communication skills. This is for class work. Students can move around the class and ask as many students as they can about others' personal inf ...
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