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 carinita
 
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| I start a subtitution on Friday I know the school, I teach in the first course there (students are 13) The substitution is for a short period but it �s in the higher courses(ss are 17 and 19 years old) , a couple of courses, and they are oriented to electronics and computing respectively My question is the following: What kind of ice-breaker can I use? Because I have a clear idea of which ice-breakers are suitable for a general English class but I don �t have a clue of what to do when the instruction should be oriented to reading-comprehension....and tomorrow and the day after 2morrow I �ll be pretty busy so I won �t have much time for planification :( Thanks in advance |  |  25 Aug 2011      
					
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 anitarobi
 
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							| You could divide them into small groups and play some games. Since they �re reader-oriented, as you say, you may try some of these - http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=270176#thetop. You can also do this: It �s very simple to prepare and organise the following - print our 3-4 different types of text (different topics - eg - a famous person �s autobiography, a sports article, a text about Steve Jobs quitting (if they �re into computers, this is real news now), a fairytale, a horror story (stephen King or EA Poe...) - the trick is to print them out in various colours for yourself so you know which is which, but for them - all texts have to be of the same font, colour and font size, and all the titles erased - this can easily be done in word. Then cut out each text(don �t use too long texts) into paragraphs (larger sections) and mix them up on one pile/envelope for one group, the other for another group etc. So each group gets jumbled cut outs of the same texts and they have to skim through them and sort them out by topics and then each text in the proper order. The group that finishes soonest and with the biggest number of guesses - wins! (actually, just made this, since I think I�ll be using it myself. If it�s any use to you, it�s free tomorrow - http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=566936#thetop ) |  25 Aug 2011     
					
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