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In the drama game called "Greetings" the students walk around the room introducing themselves to each other. If this is the first time meeting each other, they should introduce themselves with their names as well, e.g. "Hi, I'm Alissia, How are you?" . Once they have greeted most, preferably all, of the members, the teacher tells them different adjectives or emotions that the kids should use to introduce each other. That could be something like: "you You are in a sad mood." or "you You haven't seen each other in over 2 months and are really excited to see each other now." . Other ideas could be: happy, dangerous, tired, hungry, high pitched voice, whispering (we had to use this one, when our neighbour group was a bit annoyed with us.. so this might be a good idea for a classroom that is right next to another one!), greeting someone you love, greeting someone you hate, etc. Once we have acted out all the ideas I had, we still had about 4 minutes left, so I ended up asking the kids for their ideas and they had so many more and were really exciting sharing and acting out their ideas.

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Here you can find the ideas summarised one more time: high pitched voice, standing on one leg, happy, greeting someone dangerous, being shy, being cool, hot (temperature), cool (temperature), sad, scared, whispering, screaming, pretending to be a monkey, tired, hungry, greeting someone you hate, greeting someone you love.

Letting it run

As mentioned before, it can help to ask the kids themselves for ideas when you run out of ideas. Some of their ideas were: high pitched voice, being very cool, jumping on one leg, pretending to be a snake - yes, with this one we were all crawling around on the floor...