Language exchange party for kids

There are a lot of schools which participate with institutions and schools from other countries having the same main objective: the linguistic and cultural enrichment of new generations of speakers.

Students from different countries meet and start exchanging language(s) while they're making new friends, developing their linguistic skills, exchanging knowledge, and of course, they enjoy spending a good time together whilst they enjoy doing activities and speaking with other students.

This kind of activity is based on an interactionist method, students learn and acquire language through oral practise and they can do several and different activities using communication and interaction between equals.

For instance, the following series is an example of activities that could be used:

1st activity - Presentation of every member: Students can start saying their names, what they study, what they do in their spare time, etc. They can do it using their mother language or in English. If they use their mother language, then they will translate what they said in English, so every member understands what he/she said.

2nd activity - Questions and answers time: students should talk about several aspects of whatever they like (familiar context preferred). Also something about their own culture should be added, for example questions/answers/telling some facts about typical dishes, traditions, mores, etc.

3rd activity - Turn, turn, turn game: this game is based on using a dice and assigning a certain number to every student. If they're more than six people, then there can be more than one group. When they start playing, a student will throw the dice, and it depends on the number, he/she will have his/her turn to ask the member of the group that matches with the number the dice shows, how that person would say a certain word in his/her language. For example, the student asks another member the following question: how would you say "dog" in your language? And when the other person answers, he/she will throw the dice so it depends on the number that the dice shows to match with the member of the group that has the same number to repeat the process.