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Create a greater sense of connection between your family members with these fun family conversations starters for New Years Eve (or Day!)

They're especially good for encouraging tweens and teens to join the conversation, sharing their own thoughts about and memories of the year that was. Plus of the questions provide a great prompt for thinking about plans goals for the year ahead.

They make a great addition to your plans for seeing in the new year, just like our fun list of New Year's Eve Games for Families.

Plus we've included all 24 questions as a series of handy, printable cards (download instructions below). Simply print them out, cut them apart and place them into a bowl.

As with our tween conversation starters, remember to keep conversation light, especially when involving teens and tweens. Invite each friends and family member to each take a turn to choose a card to ask of the group.

24 Family Conversation Starters for New Years Eve

The 24 New Year's conversations starters include;

Name one new thing you tried this year.

Pick three words to describe this past year.

Favourite place you visited this year.

Best meal you had this year.

Best dessert you tried this year.

Most important lesson you learned.

Most embarrassing moment of the year.

Best advice you received this year.

One event that had a big impact on you.

Favourite song of the year.

Favourite series of the year.

Your favourite photo on your phone.

Something that made you belly laugh this year

The best gift you received this year.

One new skill you learned.

Best movie you watched this year.

Funniest thing that happened to you this year.

Biggest problem you solved this year.

Your word of the year for next year.

A place you want to visit next year.

One new skill you want to learn next year.

Your number one goal for the next year.

Advice you want to give yourself for next year.

Something you want to do for someone next year.

How to Print Your New Year's Eve Conversation Cards

Click here to download: New Year's Family Conversation Starters. Save the PDF to your computer. Open the PDF and print the pages you require. When printing, select "Fit to printable area" (or similar) to ensure the page fits with your printer type and local paper size. I suggest printing these cards onto card stock or matte photo paper.
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Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

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This site is a resource for ELT instructors, English language learners, and people who are interested in teaching English abroad.

Browse our extensive collection of fun ESL games and activities. The activities are relatively low-prep and appropriate for most ages and levels.

Students and teachers can view a searchable list of English idioms and download free idiom worksheets to practice the expressions.

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Aims:
* To learn vocabulary related to travel and adventure
* To develop reading skills
* To practise speaking skills

Age group: 12- adult

Materials: Around-the-world travellers student worksheet, jigsaw reading texts, and lesson plan
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Lo que os propongo descubrir a continuación me parece original, útil y prometedor: se trata de " Vocabulary Maps ".

Lanzado por Tom y Suzi, dos profesores de Inglés basados en República Checa, la iniciativa se puede resumir así: crear una biblioteca internacional de mapas visuales de vocabulario para facilitar el aprendizaje del vocabulario temático de varios idiomas, no solo del Inglés.

La fuerza de los mapas visuales de vocabulario reside en su claridad, su impacto y la creación de un contexto. Todos estos factores favorecen la motivación, la memorización y la comprensión a la hora de enriquecer su vocabulario en un idioma. Vocabulary Maps es particularmente útil para profesores y estudiantes que quieren conocer o dar a conocer el vocabulario en su contexto y con imágenes.

Aunque el proyecto quiere ser colaborativo, Tom y Suzi han empezado subiendo su propios mapas para contribuir a la iniciativa. Todos podemos proponer nuestro mapas para completar la biblioteca. Os dejo la dirección de la página web, del grupo Facebook y de los mapas en Flickr:

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None of us should ever succumb to panic - real life is definitely still out there despite the huge role that the Internet plays in modern life. Gadgets and technology play a part in our lives, but it really is just a part.

Nevertheless, it's funny to think about the hundreds of little ways these things have changed our behavior. Here are 10 of the ones we at Bright Side have noticed. How many do you recognize?

Illustrator: Astkhik Rakimova exclusively for Bright Side

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Looking to do speech therapy at home? Then you'll love these speech therapy activities and printables.

For many autistic and hyperlexic kids like my son, there are difficulties in speech and language. Mainly, in the form of maintaining conversations, mixing up pronouns, comprehension, and expressing oneself. The resources found below will help your child improve on those areas.

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I use games and fun activities to warm up my class before the lesson begins, to break the ice or even as a time filler. Warmers bring energy to class and definitely fills the time with more learning when the lesson runs shorter than expected.

Below are some of the games that I have been using in my ESL class. You can click on the game title to download editable PowerPoint demo and rules.

In this simple activity, students are shown a word, phrase or sentence that disappears in 2 seconds! They need to remember what they saw and write them down on a mini-whiteboard or paper. The fastest team to show the correct answer wins the round.

Game Type: Individual, Team

The teacher calls out a student to give 5 things on a given category in 30 seconds! This is a good activity for reviewing vocabulary.

Game Type: Individual

Each team makes a line near the board, then one student per team comes up to the white board and writes a word. The next student has to use the last letter of the word on the board to make another word. At the end of the game, the team with the longest word snake with all the words joined up wins the game.

Game Type: Team
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The teacher slowly removes the squares while students take turn guessing what is the picture hidden behind it. The student who guesses the right word wins the game.

Game Type: Individual

One student will help the person in the "hot seat" to guess the secret image behind him/her before the time runs out! This is a classic way to develop word association and description.

Game Type: Pair, Team

Students are shown different pictures and they need to take the first letter from each picture to form the mystery word. This is a fun activity that tests students vocabulary!

Game Type: Individual, Team

This is a matching type activity where each team is given a set of cards. Students spread out the cards on the table face down and take turns picking up a card and finding its pair.

Game Type: Team

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Students form a group of four and number themselves from 1-4. Students will all "sleep" by putting their heads down. When they hear the teacher calls their own number, they will "wake up" and have to remember what they see. After 4 rounds, everyone "wakes up" and puts the word or sentence together. Credit to the owner of the slides.

Game Type: Team

Break the ice with these funny brain teasers for kids and all ages! You can also use this as a warm up for a full lesson or maybe to fill in the remaining time at the end of class. Brain teasers are good to stimulate students to think quick and critically!

Game Type: Individual, Team

A tongue twister is a series of words or sounds that are usually repetitive and are difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. Most English language teachers use tongue twisters to develop the students pronunciation and accent. Sometimes, we use tongue twisters just for the sheer fun of doing it. I often get my students to memorize this and ask them to say it out loud in class as a group and in pairs.

In this post, I discuss how I let my students create their own vocabulary puzzles for their classmates to solve. Enjoy the 6 types of puzzles including a downloadable PowerPoint for instructions.

Let me know in the comments what you think about these activities!

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I use games and fun activities to warm up my class before the lesson begins, to break the ice or even as a time filler. Warmers bring energy to class and definitely fills the time with more learning when the lesson runs shorter than expected.