First Day of School Icebreaker: Two Truths and a Lie

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hello everyone my name is val and welcome back to my channel i am back to school as you can see from the blackboard behind me in today's video i'd like to show you a very simple esl game that you can use as a warm-up activity on your first week of school it is a great game to play if you want to know more about your students or if you want to introduce yourself to the students before i explain the rules of the game i would like to give a shout out to my patron martina martina you are gold thank you very much for supporting my channel here's how you play it write three statements about yourself on the blackboard two statements must be facts or truths and one statement must be a lie ask your students to guess which statement is the lie now in lower grades you can ask your students just to guess the statement just to guess the lie sorry but in higher grades you can ask your students to ask you questions to catch you in a lie let me show you an example all right so let me write three statements about myself here we go one two and three one i can play the guitar two i have a sister three i have lived in china for 20 years tada so now you can guess which statement is the lie or you can ask me questions to catch me in the lie so you can ask questions like you know what musical instrument can you play how long have you been playing the guitar where did you learn to play the guitar what kind of guitar do you play and so on or you can say you know you have a sister huh what is your sister's name how old is your sister you know do you get along um here you know like what year did you come to china how long have you been in china you know so different things there are different different ways you can um engage your students in this game and then uh yeah they can guess the correct well they can guess the lie sorry so in this in this case which statement do you think is the lie huh which one is the lie so um since there's an example i'm gonna tell you a statement number two is a lie i don't have a sister i have a brother but yes i can play the guitar and yes i have lived in china for 20 years you don't need anything to play this game all you need is a piece of chalk and a blackboard however i do use a ppt template to play this game because writing takes time and every second counts in class you know of course you can write it on the board but then i don't want to be thinking of you know facts and lies um on the spot because you may hesitate you may um it may take longer than you expected and this you'll be losing precious time and also you may lose your students they may lose interest in what you're doing let me show you my ppt template also i'm going to give you three more statements about myself the first person who can tell me which statement is the lie is going to get this ppt template for free i'm going to email it to you also i want to make a quick note that this ppt template is available to my patrons so if you like what you see here please consider becoming my patron all the links are in the description below here is the game template so as you can see here uh there are four slides here so if we take a look at this light we're gonna see uh three statements and as you can see you can insert your own text here now which one is the truth and which one is the lie let's zoom out a little bit and here you can see three rectangles so the green one corresponds to the facts so a the first one is to a the second one is the lie and it corresponds to b and the third one is the truth or a fact and it corresponds to c so let's take a look how it works uh we have three statements here and one of them is a lie so you do it in whatever way you want in your classroom but one if you want the answer to be revealed you click on this rectangle so if i click on it it tells me that this statement is a fact is the truth if i click on this rectangle it tells me that this is the lie and if i click on the third rectangle it reveals that this statement is the truth find the lie let's take a look at these statements one of them is the lie which statement is the lie a i am 45 years old b i speak four languages see i have never met my father which statement is the lie please let me know in the comment section below i hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please like and subscribe and smash that bell icon to turn the notifications on so you never ever miss a single upload i hope you have a great day and i'll see you in my next video bye everyone
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Channel: Teacher Val
Views: 10,226
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Keywords: Simple ESL Games, Two Truths and a Lie, Best Icebreakers
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Length: 7min 20sec (440 seconds)
Published: Fri Sep 02 2022
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