NAMES IN A HAT

NAMES IN A HAT 

Age level - Any

Proficiency level - Beginners

Material - Slips of paper and a hat or cap

Objective - To give beginners a sense of achievement, since they will be speaking English right away! It also helps them to memorize their classmates' names

• Distribute slips of paper and ask students to write their names on them.
• Collect all the slips in a hat or cap.
• Model the dialog on the board and role-paly it with a student: Is your name.......? Yes, it is / No, it isn't.
• Disribute the slips randomly, making sure students don't get their own names.
• Students walk around, talking to each other.
• After a few minutes, they sit down again and the teacher asks individual students, "Who is he/she?

VARIATION -  instead of writing their names, low intermediate students (and above) can write a piece of personal information (I am an only child; I have 14 dogs; I've never been abroad; etc).