Game: Getting to know each other

This game "Getting to know each other" is not only for group of all *new* people who just meet one another at the first time, but also for the *old* people who are colleague knowing each other already. This game will let people introduce themselves in a natural way. I got this game in the Acet English club which is organized on every Wednesday afternoon (run by Ms. Trang). Here is the game:


1/ The host need to print the form (as in picture above) out to a number of copies depends on how many member in the game.

2/ Then separate the crowd into 2 groups: A and B

3/ One of each group should have a speaker who will read slow and loud line by line in the paragraph to the group. And remember the speaker also write down the answer as well.

4/ Speaker need to stop for a second and wait for the group finish each line in the paragraph.

5/ After all members in A and B complete the form. Then the host inform that every person in group A can swap the paper to anyone in group B.

6/ With the swap like this, person-A got person-B's paper and vice versa. So they can guess the information of each other in a curious method. That's called "Getting to know each other"

This is just a version of it, the host can do in variation way, you may change the content of paragraph to appropriate your need, more funny, more creative. I have written the content of this version and applied this one to my staff and it has worked well, people enjoy this game very much so that the crowd turn to be noisy because of talking. I intent to do this in 20 minutes, but it has run for half an hour and it has been forced to stop :)

After getting done to know each other. Mr. Marc, company English instructor, suggested that everyone must have some words to describe the partner. Yup, this was a very good idea till then we went through it and discovered new and funny thing about colleague during the introduction. It was really a good time to start my English club every Friday for the QA team.

I think this game is also a good candidate game for team building purpose.

>> This is MS. Word for the game download here or here