Toilet Paper Ice breaker Speaking Activity | ESL Warm-Ups

Are you looking for a quick activity to do on the first day of class that will help your students get to know each other? You’ve come to the right place! Keep on watching for all the details you need to know about the toilet paper icebreaker activity. ------- • Check out this blog post for more details about this activity: https://eslspeaking.org/ice-breaker-speaking-activity/ • 3 more ESL warm up activities. Watch @NormasTeaching@Teacher-Val video here: https://youtu.be/RxV7X5uRzy0?si=Uay9AHKh5xEPEY5Q • Want another ESL warm-up game? Watch my Show and Tell video here: https://youtu.be/dnlcp_EI2n8 ------ Check out my book ESL/EFL Teaching Practice and Methodology here: https://amzn.to/3CFNEWs https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #teachingenglishwithjackie #teachingenglish #warmupgames -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript: Hi this is Jackie. Today I'm going to talk about one of my favorite ESL Icebreaker activities, it's the toilet paper Icebreaker. Bring in a roll of toilet paper or you can also bring in some candies and just for sanitation purposes I prefer wrapped candies as opposed to just like random loose jelly beans or whatever. Bring those in and then kind of just make it like a little bit suspicious so students are kind of like "what's with the toilet paper?" "what's with the candies?" but don't tell them any information, just tell students that they need to take say between four and seven pieces of toilet paper or candies. Or if you have like a small class, you could even do more. Say like between six and ten pieces of these things and then put students into small groups if you have a big class. I find that groups of maybe like six people work quite well. If you have a class say of like up to 10 students, then no problem. You could just do this all together. So the way it works is that students will go sit in a circle and the first student will take a piece of their toilet paper or a candy and put it into the middle and then they will say one fact about themselves. For example, I have a brother or my hometown is Edmonton or my favorite hobby is soccer or something like that and then one other student in that group. Whoever is fastest, they can ask a follow-up question. So for example if I said my favorite hobby is soccer someone else in the group might take their piece of paper put it down quickly and say how often do you play and then they get to do that. So when each person is out of papers out of the squares of toilet paper or out of candies they are out of the rounds. I like to do the follow-up questions because it gives students an incentive to actually listen and if they ask good follow-up questions, they don't actually have to say that many things about themselves, which some students are kind of invested in doing and they'd rather just ask questions about other people instead of just sharing facts about themselves. Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 0:11 How to play 0:54 The way this activity works 1:56 Outro Tags: warmup activity, warmup game, warm up game, warm up activity, vocabulary toilet paper, toilet paper warmer, games with toilet paper, toilet paper icebreaker game, toilet games for adults, toilet paper games for adults, toilet paper ice breaker, toilet paper game for kids, toilet paper activity, toilet paper roll games, toilet paper icebreaker, icebreaker, icebreaker game, esl games for kids, esl games for adults, esl games for beginners,