Make Speaking a Foreign Language Easy and Fun

让说外语简单又好玩

Crazie Laoshi 2023

Introduce games that you can play with your language partners.

介绍几个可以和语言伙伴的小游戏。

1. Two truths and a lie 两个真话一个假话

Everyone in the group takes turns to share 3 facts about themselves, two of them have to be true and one is a lie. Let the rest of the group guess which one is a lie and for more advanced speakers, explain why.

小组里的每个人轮流分享三个关于自己的事实，其中两个一定要是真的，一个要是假的，尽量让你的假的听起来像是真的，提高游戏的难度，让后让小组的人猜哪一个是假的。语言能力足够的话也可以解释为什么做出这样的选择。

This is a quick way to get to know someone you just met or met a few times. 这个游戏适合和刚认识或者只见过几次面的人玩。

2. 10 Questions 10个问题

Everyone in the group takes turns thinking about an object and lets the rest of the group guess by asking yes/no questions. 小组里面的每个人轮流想一个物品，让小组其他的人用问一般疑问句来猜。

For example, you think about a "lamp". One person starts asking, " Is it food?" or "Does everyone have this item?" You answer honestly "Yes/No" and another student continues to ask questions until they asked you 10 times or they get the correct answer.

比如说，你想的东西是“台灯”。一个人开始问：“是吃的吗？”或者“每个人都有这个东西吗？”你按照实际情况回答“是/不是”，然后别人再问，一直问到10个问题都用完了或者小组在10个问题之前就已经猜到了。

如果你有100万美元，你会用来做什么？

If you have 1 million dollars, how would you spend it?

3. 36 questions to really get to know each other

让你真正了解一个人的36个问题

From Https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/36_questions_for_increasing_closeness

Set I

1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest? 如果你可以任意请一个人跟你一起吃晚饭，你会选择谁？

2. Would you like to be famous? In what way? 你想成名吗？怎么成名？

3. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why? 打电话以前，你会不会预先排练一下？为什么？

4. What would constitute a “perfect” day for you?对你来说，完美的一天是什么样的？

5. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?

6. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?

7. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?

8. Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.

9. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?

10. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?

11. Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible.

12. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?

Set II

13. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know?

14. Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it?

15. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?

16. What do you value most in a friendship?

17. What is your most treasured memory?

18. What is your most terrible memory?

19. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?

20. What does friendship mean to you?

21. What roles do love and affection play in your life?

22. Alternate sharing something you consider a positive characteristic of your partner. Share a total of five items.

23. How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people’s?

24. How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?

Set III

25. Make three true “we” statements each. For instance, “We are both in this room feeling…”

26. Complete this sentence: “I wish I had someone with whom I could share…”

27. If you were going to become a close friend with your partner, please share what would be important for them to know.

28. Tell your partner what you like about them; be very honest this time, saying things that you might not say to someone you’ve just met.

29. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.

30. When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?

31. Tell your partner something that you like about them [already].

32. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?

33. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven’t you told them yet?

34. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?

35. Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?

36. Share a personal problem and ask your partner’s advice on how they might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you have chosen.