Ice breaker

My Life in Five Sentences

ESL First Day of Class Game - Writing and Speaking: Writing Sentences,
Ordering, Guessing - Pair Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 25 minutes
Here is an icebreaker activity for the first day of class to help students get to know each
other. In the activity, students use sequence words to order information about a partner.
Write five sentences on the board in a random order about interesting things you have
done in your life. Then, write some sequence words on the board, e.g. first, second, etc.
Tell the students that the sentences are things you have done in your life, but the order is
wrong. Students then guess the correct order of the five sentences using the sequence
words on the board until someone gives you the right order. Next, tell the students to
write five sentences in a random order about interesting things they have done, avoiding
sentences where the chronological order is obvious. After that, in pairs, students read
their partner's sentences and try to put them in the right order using sequence words. If
the order is wrong, the student tries again until they get it right. Students repeat this
process with several partners. Afterwards, students give feedback to the class on the
information they found out.

Last year I went on a bike trip to Switzerland.

I started working for Stanmore College in early 2016.

I finished my university and found my first teaching job.

Over the last few years I have travelled to so many countries.

The company I was working for was closed down and I lost my job.

What is the difference between these pair of words? Which of these Ali (the new student) uses in the
video? Which one he should have used?

1. Squeeze me / Excuse me
2. Early / Ali
3. Hopping / Hoping
4. Enrolled / Unrolled
5. Silly bus / Syllabus
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Last night, I baked some cookies in the kitchen. They smelled good, but
they were as hard as rock. They also tasted awful. I don’t know what
happened. When my mother made some last week, they were great. I will
try again tonight.

Last night, I baked some cookies in the kitchen. They smelled good, but
they were as hard as rock. They also tasted awful. I don’t know what
happened. When my mother made some last week, they were great. I will
try again tonight.

Last night, I baked some cookies in the kitchen. They smelled good, but
they were as hard as rock. They also tasted awful. I don’t know what
happened. When my mother made some last week, they were great. I will
try again tonight.

Last night, I baked some cookies in the kitchen. They smelled good, but
they were as hard as rock. They also tasted awful. I don’t know what
happened. When my mother made some last week, they were great. I will
try again tonight.