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Group division exercises
1. The stick
Purpose: Cooperation and communication, practise body language. Good exercises for dividing into groups or teams.
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Age: Any.
Each student picks up a stick. Compare the length of the sticks and form a line, in ascending order, according to the length of their stick. The teacher can now split the line and divide the students into even pairs or groups.
2. Describe in pairs
Purpose: Communication and language practice.
Age: Any (older pupils can do the exercise in a foreign language).
Work in pairs. One pupil picks up an object from nature and hides it in one hand. He or she describes it and the other pupil has to guess what it is. Then reverse roles.
3. Alphabetical order
Purpose: Practise the alphabet and communication. Good exercises for dividing into groups.
Age: 9 and over.
Ask the pupils to arrange themselves in alphabetical order by first name or last name. The pupils can speak to each other or do the exercise in silence. An alternative is to give the pupils sheets of paper with letters on and have them use those to arrange themselves in alphabetical order.
4. Compound words
Purpose: Practise compound words.
Age: 8 and over.
Write the two parts of some compound words on sheets of paper, e.g. arm & chair, white & board, foot & ball. Hand out the the words in random order and tell the pupils to form pairs by finding the other half to form the correct compound word.
