Contents
The author and series editor
Foreword
Introduction
How to use this book
Section A: Forming the group
1 Breaking the ice: warm-up activities for the first
week of term
1.1 Guess my name
1.2 Shaking hands
1.3 Circles
1.4 My home town
1.5 Group skills
1.6 Family statistics
1.7 Forfeits
2 Thinking about language: individual learning
styles and group strategies
2.1 What kind of person are you?
2.2 What kind of language learner are you?
2.3 Experience and expectations
3 Thinking about groups: group strengths, individual
contributions
3.1 Thinking about groups
3.2 Contributing to a group
3.3 Roles in groups
Section B: Maintaining the group
4 Bridging gaps: opinion-and value-bridging activities
4.1 One world
4.2 The Flat Earth Society
4.3 What's so special about us?
4.4 Elemental passions
4.5 Happy families
4.6 The Smelly-foot Tribe
4.7 Predicting similarities
5 Maintaining fluidity: reseating and melee games
5.1 Seating plan
5.2 Changing places
5.3 Airport lounge
5.4 Stations
5.5 Picture sections
5.6 Invitations
6 Getting to know each other: humanistic exercises
and personalized grammar
6.1 What are they up to now?
6.2 How often?
6.3 Past confessions
6.4 Class records
6.5 Magic moments
6.6 Group predictions
7 1 did it your way: empathy activities
7.1 1 am you
7.2 If 1 were you
7.3 Ghostwriters
7.4 How did it feel?
7.5 A day in your life
8 A sense of belonging: whole group identity
activities
8.1 Group history
8.2 Group profile
8.3 Rainy Sunday Shock Horror: a group newspaper
8.4 Group portrait with melon
8.5 Group advert
8.6 One big family
9 Establishing trust: trust-and confidence-building
activities
9.1 Falling
9.2 Blind trust
9.3 Look after it for me
9.4 Promises promises
9.5 Sillv walks
10 Staying positive: encouraging positive feelings
10.1 1 like it when
10.2 My English self
10.3 Wanted: the perfect student
10.4 Medals
10.5 Crazy compliments
10.6 Present-giving
10.7 The negative feelings dustbin
11 Group achievements: product-orientated activities
11.1 A partridge in a pear tree' : a group song
11.2 Tonight at noon' : a group poem
11.3 TV News
11.4 Travel posters
11.5 Group scrapbook
12 Bringing it together: pyramid discussions, feedback
techniques, and summaries
12.1 Pyramid discussions
12.2 Reporting back
12.3 Poster presentations
12.4 Postbag
12.5 Instant opinion poll
12.6 Storybook
12.7 Amazing facts
13 That patriotic class feeling: inter-class activities
and competitions
13.1 Inter-class debate
13.2 Package tours
13.3 Inter-class quiz league
13.4 Silly sports
13.5 Sketches
14 Ensuring participation
14.1 Interaction mapping
14.2 Catching the question
14.3 Group scribes
14.4 Over to you
14.5 Passing the buck
15 Learning to listen
15.1 Speaking to a brick wall
15.2 Tea and sympathy
15.3 Listeners
15.4 Bamboo telegraph
15.5 Body language and showing interest
16 A sense of direction: setting, assessing, and
resetting goals
16.1 1 'm here because
16.2 Visualize it
16.3 What do 1 want?
16.4 How 1 can help you, how you can help me
16.5 Have 1 got what 1 wanted?
16.6 What we've done
17 Coexistence and compromise: individual wants and
frustrations; group solutions
17.1 Ideal homes
17.2 Win - lose and win - win negotiations
17.3 Middlemen
17.4 Timetabling priorities
17.5 Negotiating the timetable
18 Coping with crisis: some group problems
Sources of problems in groups
Responding to problems
Some strategies for coping with conflict
Section C: Ending the group experience
19 Ending with positive feelings
19.1 Remember when ?
19.2 I'll remember them because
19.3 Thank-you presents
19.4 Hopes for the future
20 Evaluating the group experience
20.1 Look how far we've come
20.2 Now we can
20.3 Evaluating learning strategies
20.4 What's left to do?
20.5 The old lags' letter
21 Finale
Language focus index
Further reading
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