warm-up

Find the lie

Materials

• small pieces of paper, one for each student

Procedure

1. Give each student a small piece of paper. 2. Tell them to write three pieces of information about themselves on the piece of paper. Two of these bits of information must be true, one is a lie. – My name is Sophal (True) – I am married (False) – I visited Japan in 1999 (True) 3. Tell the students to stand up and to hold their pieces of paper in front of them. 4. They should walk around the classroom, read the information about people and see if they can guess which statement is a lie.

Name circle

Materials: none

Procedure

1. Get all the students to stand in a large circle. 2. Each student must say his or her name clearly. 3. One student points to another student, calls out his name and the two students change places. The second student calls points, calls out the name of another student and they change places. Variation • The students stand in a circle. One student calls out someone’s name and throws a ball to that person. They call out someone else’s name and throw the ball to them.