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Fruit salad is a game of action – an original warm up method. The participants are sitting in a chair circle and are divided in to, e.g. three sub-groups called, for example “apples”, “strawberries” and “cherries”. One person is inside a circle of chairs where the other people are sitting. The person inside asks to change the place, for example to the group of cherries and the “cherries” have to follow the calling. Now the inside person tries to get a chair. The person who does not get a chair goes further on. The speciality is to use different languages.
1.Build a chair circle where everyone can have a seat. You as facilitator are inside the circle and have no chair.
2.Now you count the people like 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 and so on but with names of fruits apple, strawberry, cherry, … (if the group is very big you can count a 4th fruit like banana or peach or what ever you want). You are counted as one fruit as well.
3.After that the person inside the circle asks the people to change the place by calling, e.g. the cherries to change to trade places and they have to follow the calling. The call “fruit salad” means that everyone has to change the seat. The only rule is not move to the chair next to yours.
4.When you have explained the rules you introduce that you will play that game not only in the common language of the majority but in other languages and you ask the students for translation of the words into other languages they speak like, for example Turkish, Russian … So you might have the cherry in Russian, the apple in Turkish and the strawberry in Kurdish.
5.Write the words down on a flip chart/board. The students can teach the pronunciation for a while. This part has it own importance because of the recognition of the language, competences of Turkish, Russian, etc. speaking Youth.
6.Now you can start the game again.
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