Methods

Getting to know each other and ice breakers

The name and gesture: each person says the name, the country from where is coming and make a gesture. The other participants have to repeat 3 times the name and gesture.

The ties: on a paper tie, the participants had to write 2 truths about them and 1 lie. After they hang the ties and go to interact with the others, guessing which is the lie and which are the truths

The spider network: the participants stay in circle. One person has a ball of string and throw it to someone else from circle but before has to say something about himself. At the end it will be formed a spider network. To make again the ball of string, the process is made inverse.

Expectations tree: the participants had to write on post its their expectations, fear and contributions

The country rules: divided in smaller mixed teams, the participants discussed about the rules everybody has to follow in order to have successful project

Secret friend: Every participant picks a note with a name of another participant who becomes his secret friend. During the entire project, everybody has to take care of his friend and to stay secret. In the last day, each participant has to guess, being blinded, by touching, who was his secret friend and to thank him for taking care of him.

The Facebook page: starting from the socializing network, each participant had write on a paper information about himself like birthday, studies, hobbies, favourite things etc. The papers with these information were posted on the walls of the activities room so anyone could read them any time and leave comments each others.

Energizers

Hey yo, my name is Jo: the leader sing a song and make a gesture and the participants has to repeat

“Hey Yo, my name is Joe

And I work in an iron factory!

One day, my boss came to me:

– Hey Joe, are you busy?

I said : <NO>

And she said: give me a hand!”

The participant has to shake the hand. The song repeat for the other hand, legs, hips and tongue.

“7 up”:

In circle, the participants he to count from 1 to 7. When they say the number they have to indicate right or left, direection for counting. When arrives at 7, the participant has to say “7 up” and has to indicate the direction for restarting the counting. Everyone who mistakes, is eliminated.

Eu am o casa mica : The facilitator say a poem in Romanian and make some gestures and the participants repeat the lyrics and the gestures.

Eu am o casă mică

Așa și-așa (it is shown how is the house)

Și fumul se ridică

Așa și-așa (it is shown how is going up the smoke)

Și-mi lustruiesc pantofii

Așa și-așa (it is shown how are clean the shoes)

Și bat la ușa casei

Așa și-așa (it is shown how to knock to the door).

The jukebox: the facilitator stays in the middle and when show to someone this person has to sing a sog, until the facilitator show to someone else. If facilitator shows again the to the person who had already sung, this person has to continue the song from the point was stopped.

Exercise

Limit 20 – http://www.eycb.coe.int/edupack/42.html