Mingling Activities

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Make good use of break times

Don't overlook the importance of using the breaktime to get students to mingle amongst themselves.

A mingling activity during break times can increase speaking confidence substantially, especially if the task assigned was one level below the students' actual proficiency.

Mingling activities at the lower levels require not only a task dialog, but also that the students sometimes write down the answers before they mingle in order to relieve the pressure of creating with the language.

Some mingling activities would be:

1. Write three things that you like to do in your spare time after work.
2. Find someone who likes to do the same three things as you do after work, and be ready to report to the whole group after the activity.

If you decide not to use a mingling activity, then do try to encourage students to use only English during their break times.