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Becoming friends.
Click HERE for a fluency activity (high beginner on up) aimed at getting students to connect with each other. It takes 45 minutes to an hour. There are 3 sets of questions. Each set gets a bit deeper. They talk about the ones that are interesting to them for about 10 minutes.
This is based on research by Arthur Aron, Stony Brook University.
I simplified this from something on the Greater Good Science Center, Berkeley.
https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/36_questions_for_increasing_closeness#data-tab-how
And here's a video you might use to introduce the topic,
This is based on research by Arthur Aron, Stony Brook University.
I simplified this from something on the Greater Good Science Center, Berkeley.
https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/36_questions_for_increasing_closeness#data-tab-how
And here's a video you might use to introduce the topic,