[fishead soup]

Simply right key words of the board that relate to yourself example
Birth dates hometown hobbies wifes name husbands name birthplace
favorite singer food music

You simply tell the students that these are answers to questions about yourself. Put the students into teams and award a point each time someone guesses the question correctly. After each question is guessed erase the key word. Do this until all the key words are gone.

[marymary]

another good one (especially for high school students who get a kick out of the initial surprise) involves a fresh roll of toilet paper. bring it in and at the beginning of class pull off "as much as you need." then pass the roll around and ask the students to pull off "as much as they need". after everyone has what they consider to be a sufficient amount of t.p., explain that they need to give one piece of introductory information about themselves for every square of toilet paper that they are now holding. start with yourself.

this is best for smaller groups (it can get a bit tedious with a bunch of people) and for groups who don't already know all about each other.

[Eric]

That is hilarious, marymary!

[little sage]

Marymary,

Funny!

I wish I had known about the TP game when I was teaching high-school boys! I hope I get "just the right class" to try it with in March.

Karen

[aidagol]

This is fun! I have done it but with M&M, which they really love, so they take a lot!!!!. Another possibility is doing it with cards. They take a card and then they say as many things as the number in the card.

[kmsah]

You are a genius

[fatma123]

Great one really!
I'll try it..

[michèle 2]

Toilet paper game , great!!!

[Siemens]

Yeah, I have tried this game as well as it was really funny. The thing is that I couldn't find toilet paper where I used to work, so I went for napkin papers. I have to admit that it would have been funnier with pieces of toilet papers.

Another thing that I did differently was that I asked them to write an adjective per each napkin paper that they had picked. Afterwards I asked them to write sentences using these adjectives and they seemed to enjoy this activity a lot.