¿Cómo te llamas? is one of our most simple icebreakers. Apart from the activities of its PDF booklet, we’d like to post an additional activity for the fist days of class:

1.- Ask your students to pick a Spanish name. Most textbooks include a list of common names, otherwise just type “common Spanish names” in a search engine.

2.- Once they’ve chosen a name, ask them to form a line in alphabetical order, using only Spanish. For example:

  Learner1: ¿Cómo te llamas?
  Learner2: Me llamo Isabel, ¿y tú?
  Learner1: Rodolfo.

Then Isabel moves to be in front of Rodolfo.

3.- Once the learners have formed a line, ask them their names to check they did it right.

4.- Once the activity is finished, you can ask them to bend round into a circle to play a different game. For example, you can have them say the alphabet in order, starting at some point with “A”, and continuing one by one after they all participate.