101 Fun Games, Activities, and Projects for English Classes, vol. 1: Volume 1: Breaking the Ice - Paperback

by Cynthia Lapena (Author)

Need ideas to begin your classes? 101 Fun Games, Activities, and Projects for English Classes, vol. 1: Breaking the Ice is a great resource for English teachers who want to start their classes with fun, learner-centered activities. This volume contains 19 short, fun activities and games that can be used to break the ice. That is, teachers can use games and activities in this volume to warm students up, to wake them up, and to get them circulating. Some of these activities and games may seem like party mixers, but they have been used in several classes to introduce a lesson or concept, or simply to give everyone a chance to get to know everyone else in class. Incidentally, they can also be great icebreakers for parties, workshops, and other gatherings.

Author Biography

Cynthia Lapeña began writing when she was a very young child and wrote for school publications throughout her youth. Her literary works center mainly around poetry and some short fiction, besides numerous essays and academic papers. She is an avid reader of fiction and has always dreamed of publishing novels. She recently completed her first novel, The Lost Amulets, which she entered in the online Next Best Author Contest. Since she migrated to Canada in 2007, she has written several reviews for onrpei.ca and maintains a blog (mimrlith.wordpress.com) where she shares poetry, essays, art and other random works and ideas. Before that, she had written several educational and academic texts, as well as a full-length play that won 3rd prize in the Philippines's prestigious Carlos Palanca National Awards for Literature in 2007. She has also been a teacher of writing and communication and holds a Master of Arts in English Literature. As an educator, she believes that teachers must engage the minds of students, no matter what age, and throughout her 20+ years of teaching, she has constantly striven to create engaging and fun lessons, because she really believes that learning must always be fun! She is a member of the Prince Edward Island Writers' Group and actively writes with the group PEI Writes. She likewise circulates the PEIWG Weekly, a newsletter mainly for Atlantic Canadian writers, that provides weekly updates on the latest in literary news, events, contests, and workshops. Visit Cynthia's blog at www.mimrlith.wordpress.com or her Facebook Page at https: //www.facebook.com/pages/Cindy-Lapeña/ Follow her on Twitter @mimrlith