Speed-dating Speaking Activity!
Bonjour everyone! I hope you've all had a great start to the new school year. It's been a busy one for me, and I've gotten a little behind in my blogging...but I've been trying some new ideas in my classes that I'd like to share with you. This one actually was inspired by my principal, who mentioned it in passing in one of our departmental meetings. The idea was to try a speed-dating style speaking activity. I divided my class into groups of 2. One student in each group had a profile that I created giving basic information such as their name, age, where they lived, their nationality, etc. To make it more fun, they had a simple costume to wear as well...I have various masks & hats that I used for this. The profiles included Jack Sparrow, Santa Claus, Yoda, Elvis, George W. and so on. The other person in the group was the interviewer and was given a card on which I'd written some basic questions ...