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Group Building Activity
"Culti-Multi"
It is a game to be used in multinational groups of students. Key words for this activity are: multi-culture, foreign languages, team building, communication.
Aims of the tool
To develop the following competences:
- Communication
- Team building
- Foreign languages
- Social competences
- Cultural awareness
- Basic knowledge of different countries
- Realizing some countries are different and some are similar
- Starting the interest of other countries and cultures
- creativity
Description of the tool
Activity takes 40 min.
I. Introduction of the facilitators and the activity (1 min)
II. Warm-up activity (5 min) – every participant draws on the piece of paper something connected to his/her country but something which is not very obvious. Then other participants try to guess each country and they get the information what was the drawing about,
III. Main activity (24 min):
1) Yes or no – body language and gestures. All participants are standing in the circle. The person in charge is inside the circle and asks them to show the gesture or body movement connected with something. Suggestions:
- How do you express “YES” in your country?
- How do you express “NO” in your country?
- How do you show in your country that you like the food?
- What do you do in your country if you meet a friend?
After all countries presented you can ask some participants about some countries to repeat the gesture.
2) Animal sounds. All participants are standing in the circle and they are asked to produce the animal sounds like they do in their country. Suggestions:
- Can you make the sound of: a duck, a cow, little chicken.
After all participants produced the sounds you ask some of them to imitate the sounds of animals of different country.
3) Words. All participants are standing in the circle and they are asked to say in their mother tongue some words or expressions. Suggestions:
- Can you say in your mother tongue: please, thank you, good morning, goodbye, I love you.
Then you can check what people remember from other countries.
4) Dance competition – ask the students to create mixed nationalities couples and they have a task to create the dance which is the mix of the national dances of both people in the pair. When participants are ready they present it to others. You can choose the most innovative dance.
IV. Debriefing (10 min) – all participants in the circle discuss the activity
Disclaimer
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/1735
This tool is for
15-20 students from different countries, you can use this exercise in a class of one nationality if you give the students the assignment some time before to make a research about different nationalities and later students can perform the roles of other nationalities and present it to the others, * you can also modify the game up to the needs of your students’ group
and addresses
Intercultural Learning
It is recommended for use in:
Youth Exchanges
Strategic Partnerships
Materials needed:
- Paper and some pencils / markers
- The paper with questions
- Some music can be used during the dance competition but it shouldn’t be related to any particular country
Duration:
About 40 minutes
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Asli Aydin, Piotr Pawel Zimoch, Jelena Torchinava
in the context of
The tool was created by participants of the Erasmus+ project "Gaining from Gaming"
The tool has been experimented in
Training course
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Alla Zhurko (on 17 November 2015)
and last modified
30 October 2015
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