Cocktail Party
| Activity | |
|---|---|
| Make up what you did last weekend and share with others. | |
| Target level | JHS |
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Each student is given a small piece of paper with a sentence on it, describing what they did last weekend. “I went to Florence and stomped grapes.” I drove to California and got eight speeding tickets.” “I flew to the Bahamas and swam with the sharks.” Etc. The more outrageous the sentence the better. Once students have read their sentence and the teacher makes sure that they understand their sentences, students are instructed to stand up and move around the classroom and ask each other, ‘what did you do this weekend?” After everyone has had a chance to mingle, the class sits down again and the teacher asks, “What did Juan do this weekend?” and the class reconstructs what everyone did. This exercise can also be a way to review geography. You can also have students practice little phrases like, “Excuse me” if they bump into people, or opening lines at cocktail parties, like “Say, I haven’t seen you in a long time.”
