Hannah Ciceu's List: Getting to Know You Activities

• • Can do as my complete sentence writing Writer's Workshop.
• Give each person a different photograph of a person, preferably a magazine advertisement with a sheet of paper paperclipped to the back. Then ask the students a question about the person and give them one or two minutes to write one sentence. For example: What does s/he do for a living? Where does s/he want to go on vacation? What does s/he do for fun? What is s/he afraid of? What was his/her most embarrassing moment? After they write the sentence, everyone passes their photo clockwise and you give them a new question to answer. Don't give them enough time to read what other people have written on the paper; keep it moving at a brisk pace. By the time everyone gets their original photograph back they can take turns sharing what everyone has written about their subject.
• everyone in the class got to write a random object on a slip of paper, and then we put all these things in a hat. To play the game, we sat in a circle and told a story, one sentence at a time. If you hesitated before starting the sentence, or said uhhh or umm or started the sentence with "and" or "then", you'd have to be killed.

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• • Why are you here?
  • What is necessary in order for you to accomplish your goals?

• • 1. Have you ever climbed to the highest point in your country of birth?
     
    2. Have you ever lived overseas for more than 1 year?
     
    3. Have you ever sung karaoke?
     
    4. Have you ever been without a shower for more than 2 weeks?
     
    5. Do you have both a brother and a sister?
     
    6. Have you ever ridden a horse?
     
    7. Have you ever eaten frogs' legs?
     
    8. Can you speak 3 or more languages?
     
    9. Have you ever been in love with someone who was vegetarian?
     
    10. Have you swum in 3 or more different oceans?
     
    11. Have you ever flown an aeroplane?
     
    12. Have you broken 3 or more bones in your body?
     
    13. Have you done volunteer work sometime in the last month?
     
    14. Have you ever free-climbed a tree or rockface more than 10 meters   vertically?
     
    15. Have you ever had a close relative who lived to over 100?
     
    16. Have you ever cooked a meal by yourself for more than 20 people?
     
    17. Have you ever kept a budgerigar as a pet?
     
    18. Have you ever been parachuting or done a bungee jump?
     
    19. Can you not click your fingers on your non-dominant hand?
     
    20. Have you ever seen a polar bear?