LC Virtual Exchange Document - Flipbook - Page 6
Virtual Ice-breakers
• https://www.flippity.net/ is useful for online games, etc.
• Mystery Skype Guide (see https://ppli.ie/mystery-skype-in-the-mfl-classroom-tutorial/)
• A letter. Students either handwrite a letter to describe themselves, and the teacher takes a photo of it, or they
type in a Word document. They then take a photo of objects to represent what was described in the letter. The
teachers give a number/letter to each letter/photo and put all the letters and photos from both groups up on
a virtual noticeboard; students, in groups, have to match them.
• “I am not well.” Play this bilingual game online in a group meeting. Create two break out rooms, mix the students
up and have a teacher in each room. The teacher mimes a pain and describes it in the target language, then
they call on a student and the student mimes and describes the teacher’s pain, and adds their own. If there is
a mix of students, there will be a mix of target languages and students need to remember the order of the
different problems and what language they were described in. Keep going until every student has had a turn.
• “Treasure Hunt.” Play this bilingual game online in a group meeting. Create two break out rooms, mix the
students up and have a teacher in each room. The teacher calls out, “find something yellow/green/
square/round/etc” and students have to find an appropriate item, show it to the screen and say what it is in the
target language.
• “Auction.” Ask students to pick an object and to sell it to the other students in the target language. You can
spice it up by adding some keywords they must include whatever the object is. Students can prepare and be
given a budget to bid for other items, in advance of the online meeting. Select a student to sell their object by
describing it in the target language and asking the rest of the group to bid for the object.
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