Getting to Know You ESL Activities, Games and Icebreakers
Do you have a secret?

ESL Getting to Know You Game - Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice
In this intriguing getting to know you game, students discover secrets about their classmates by asking yes/no questions. First, students write secrets about themselves on cards. Each secret can be...
First Class Interview and Introduction

ESL First Day of Class Activity - Writing and Speaking: Writing, Asking and Answering Questions, Sentence Completion, Writing Sentences, Presenting - Pair Work
In this useful first day of class speaking activity, students write 'get to know you' questions to ask a new classmate and then interview them and use...
Getting to Know You Survey

ESL Getting to Know You Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice
In this free getting to know you speaking activity, students conduct a survey to get to know their classmates and find out information about them...
Introduce your Friend to the Class

ESL First Day of Class Activity - Speaking: Completing, Asking and Answering Questions, Reading a Text, Presenting - Pair Work
Here is a productive first day of class speaking activity to help students get to know each other. In the activity, students complete an introductory text by...
Are we compatible?

ESL Getting to Know You Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Comparing - Pair and Group Work
In this insightful getting to know you questions activity, students interview each other and share personal information to find people who would make compatible flatmates. In pairs, students take turns...
Can you tell me more?

ESL Icebreaker Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Communicative Practice - Pair Work
In this engaging getting to know you speaking activity, students practice asking for details to questions and making conversation. First, in two groups, students write short answers to questions in numbered...
The Question is...

ESL Getting to Know You Questions Game - Speaking: Forming Questions - Group Work
In this free getting to know you questions game, students race to make questions from answers given by other students. First, students read their question cards and complete sentences with answers that are true for them. Students then...
What do we have in common?

ESL Getting to Know You Activity - Speaking: Writing,Asking and Answering Questions, Communicative Practice
In this getting to know you speaking activity, students try to find things they have in common with their classmates by asking and answering 'getting to know you' questions. First, students read personal...
Assumptions

ESL Get to Know You Game - Speaking: Guessing, Writing, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
In this light-hearted icebreaker game, students guess information about a partner and then form questions to ask them to find out the truth. Assign each student with a partner from the other...
Pair Introductions

ESL First Day of Class Activity - Speaking: Completing, Asking and Answering Questions, Writing Sentences, Presenting - Pair Work
In this first day of class icebreaker activity, students create 'getting to know you' questions to ask a partner, interview them and use the information to...
Shapes of You

ESL Getting to Know You Activity - Speaking: Asking Questions, Explaining, Discussion - Pair Work
In this interesting getting to know you speaking activity, students ask questions and develop short conversations in order to get to know a partner. Students begin by writing short answers to prompts...
Shared Interests

ESL Getting to Know You Board Game - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Pair and Group Work
In this engaging getting to know you board game, students practice asking questions and making true statements with 'both of us' or 'neither of us' about things...
Tell Us About...

ESL Getting to Know You Board Game - Speaking: Impromptu Speech, Asking Questions, Free Practice - Group Work
This fun getting to know you board game can be used as an icebreaker activity on the first day of class to help students talk about themselves and become acquainted with one another. Students take...
That's Interesting!

ESL First Day of Class Activity - Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Sentence Completion, Discussion
Here is an enjoyable getting to know you speaking activity for the first day of class to help students find out interesting information about one another. First, students read incomplete statements and...
True or False?

ESL Icebreaker Game - Speaking: True or False, Sentence Completion, Asking and Answering Questions - Group Work
In this free icebreaker game, students give true and false personal information and their classmates ask questions to help them decide if the information is true or false. First, students complete ten...
A to Z

ESL Getting to Know You Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Guided Discussion - Group Work
This memorable getting to know you activity can be used as an icebreaker on the first day of class. In groups, students take turns picking up an alphabet card and reading the corresponding topic and...
Prepositions in Common

ESL Getting to Know You Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice - Group and Pair Work
Here is a creative getting to know you activity to help students get to know a classmate and practice dependent prepositions at the same time. First, in two groups...
Tell the group about...

ESL Getting to Know You Game - Speaking: Impromptu Speech, Fluency Practice - Group Work
In this rewarding getting to know you game, students talk about various topics for one minute to help them get to know each other and improve fluency. In groups, students take turns picking up a card...