Petals of a daisy

If you have a new class or if your students don't know each other, what will you do in the first lesson? Of course you get prepared before the class, however your students won't speak or participate the activity, because they don't want to talk to their new classmates. In order to break the ice in such situations, you can do this activity:

Stick a round colourful paper on the board, this is the body of the daisy and stick the name cards of your students on the board. Prepare as many petals as the student number in the classroom and give one to each student. Then, ask the students to describe their deskmates physically, write their name and their likes and dislikes on those petals. Afterwards, collect all the papers, put them in a box and mix them. Call out loud one student to pick one petal from the box and read it.The rest of the class will try to guess who he/she is, then who makes the correct prediction will come and stick that petal (which has the description on it) on the body of the daisy.Lastly, that student will stick the name card on that petal.

By the help of this activity, your ss have a conversation; they ask likes and dislikes of their deskmates,they speak in English which is our target and we have an enjoyable lesson.(If you want you make it a game, make groups and call one student from each group, those ss will pick up one petal and read it, the rest of the group will try to guess.If they can guess it, they will get a tmark. At the end of the game, the group wtih most marks will be the winner.)