National Qualifications Online - Core skills

Ice breaker - interview your partner

It is nice to get to know the people you are going to be working with. Even if you do know them quite well, it is nice to find out a bit more about them.

This is an exercise for the whole class to do. You will need to split into pairs. If there is an odd number, have a 'three'.

Ask your partner the following questions and write down the answers:

  1. their name – if you don't already know it
  2. their earliest childhood memory
  3. their favourite film
  4. their favourite item of clothing (short description).

Then, everyone in the class should present their partner to the group – reading out the information they have written down.

By the time this exercise is finished, everyone should know a bit more about the other members of the group – you may find you have something in common that you didn't know about.