ESL Icebreaker Activity Two Truths and a Lie | ESOL Icebreaker Questions, Games & Activities

If you’re looking to get your semester started off on the right foot, then you’ll need to use an ESL icebreaker. Two Truths and a Lie is an amazing icebreaker activity to get your students talking and getting to know each other. ------- • Check out this blog post for more details on ESOL Icebreaker Games & Activities https://eslspeaking.org/top-10-esl-icebreakers/ • If you liked this video, find my Icebreaker activities playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0Q8kr18oQKZK_Gmo2R7vgyKNVnvw9hu ------ Check out my 39 ESL Icebreakers book: https://amzn.to/3zCYxXn https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #teachingenglishwithjackie #icebreakers ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Timestamp for 2 Truths and 1 Lie 0:00 Intro 0:15 How to play 0:55 Interrogation time (the hot seat) 1:39 A fun variation 2:35 Conclusion Transcript: Okay, so let's talk about two truths and a lie. It's a fun Icebreaker for kind of any situation but I use it specifically in my ESL or EFL classes. So the way it works is that I give students a couple minutes and they have to write down three statements. Two of them are true and one of them is false. The ones that I would use about myself are: I have a twin sister and my mom is a twin. The second one is I have been to more than 50 countries. And the third one is I've been bungee jumping 12 times. Which one do you think is a lie? I hope you guessed right. It is number three. I've actually never been bungee jumping but I do have a twin and my mom is a twin, all identical, actually which is kind of amazing. And I have been to a lot of countries as well. So anyway, I get students to do that and then after that I put them in small groups if we have a big class or we do it all together if we have a smaller class. And then I get the other students in the group or the rest of the class to have about two or three minutes, I call it interrogation time. They can ask questions to the person in the hot seat about their truths and their lie to try to uncover what it is. For example, for me, students might ask, "What's your sister's name?" "Where did you go bungee jumping first?" or, "What's your favourite country? Or, "Have you ever been to Africa?" Any of those questions, the kind of quick rapid-fire questions and then see what I struggle to answer. Then, in the end, the other people in the group or the class vote on which one is the lie. That's about it. One really fun way that I did is I was teaching a camp and I had the same group of students for the entire, I think it was two weeks something like six hours a day, something like that. I got two students to start off the class doing this activity and it was kind of an icebreaker thing just to begin the class and kind of warm-up everyone for using English. And then I got a student in the class, I called him the captain actually, the students appointed him as a captain. So the person would go and they would say their two truths and a lie we'd interrogate them, everybody would vote on it and then whoever was correct at uncovering the LIE would get one point. And then the captain kept track of who had the most points throughout those couple weeks and then at the end, I gave those couple people, the winners, I give them a Starbucks gift card. And they loved it. Actually, it was a really good activity and we had a really fun time and I said that they should be policemen or policewomen because they were obviously very good at understanding when people were lying. All right, that's about it that is one of my favourite ESL icebreakers. If you want some more icebreakers, check out my book 39 ESL Icebreakers. You can find it wherever you like to buy books or I'll put the link right up there for you. Tags: ESL Icebreaker Activity, esl icebreakers, Two Truths, ESOL Icebreaker, Two Truths game, ESL classroom games, classroom games, classroom activities, games to play in class, icebreaker games, icebreaker activity, teacher icebreaker, icebreakers for english class, first day ice breaker, teen icebreakers, esl introduction games,