Game type : Movement game
Aims : Languages: Names; basic introductions and greetings.
Age : 4+
Group size : 6 - 15
Time : 10 Minutes
Materials : A drum, whistle, or other noise-makers; a soft ball
Procedure:

1. All the children sit on chairs in a circle. You are in the middle.
2. Go up to a child, shake hands, and say Hello, my name is.....
3. You and the child now introduce yourselves to other children. Then they stand up and introduce themselves to other children.
4. When all the children are up and moving about make a noise with your drum or whistle. You and the children must run and find a seat. There will be one seat too few.
5. The child who doesn't find a seat goes to the middle and starts the game again. You sit on a seat like the other children.

Follow-up 1
After they have introduced themselves, the children sit in a circle and one throws a soft ball to another, who has to say Hello, I'm ....

Follow-up 2
Child 1 throws the ball to Child 2, calling out Child 2's name. Child 2 say Hello ...., how are you? They then changes places.

Variation 1
Instead of Hello, you can choose Good morning or Good afternoon.

Variation 2
Instead of My name is .... use I'm ...

Variation 3
The children have to answer It's nice to meet you  or My pleasure. After each round, the child in the middle can introduce new phrases.
For example: I'm six years old or I live in Ciamis.

It is very important to practice greet our students in every meeting. In the first meeting, may be, they will be shy to answer our greeting. Following are the examples of greeting:

Teacher : Good morning!
Students: Good morning!

Teacher : Good morning students!
Students: Good morning, mom!

Teacher : Good morning children!
Students: Good morning, sir!

Repeat many times.

Don't forget to ask their condition as follows:

Teacher : How are you?
Students: I am fine, thank you.

Teacher : How are you today?
Students: Fine, thank you.

Teacher : Good morning boys and girls!
Students: God morning Miss Susan!
Teacher: How are you today?
Students: Fine, Miss Susan.

Notes:
Good morning, good afternoon. good evening use in formal situation. For non formal use Hi or Hello.

Rudi : Hi, Yanti!
Yanti: Hi, Rudi!

Ade : Hello Lia!
Lia : Hello Ade!

In giving questions to your students, you have to avoid the following habits:

1. to repeat your question, if the teacher repeat his/her own question the student's attention will decrease.
2. to repeat student's answer, in one case it will reinforce student but if it become a habit of repeating the answer it will waste the time and the student will not pay attention to his friend's answer because it will be repeated by the teacher.
3. to answer your own question, if the teacher answers his own question before the student get opportunity to answer the question it will frustrate the student and reduce his attention.
4. question that let the students to answer in chorus all together.
5. using double question.

And the following are the components of basic question

1. Question should be briefly and clearly stated.
2. Structuring (giving reference) before giving a question sometime the teacher need to give a question as the reference for student's answer.
3. Focusing the scope of teaching material could be large/narrow. The teacher can narrow down to a specific one.
   Re-directing in answering a question. The teacher can ask more than one student in turn by means of completing/correcting the answer.
4. Spreading, to increase student's involvement in the teacher spread the question randomly. Different questions are given to different student.
5. To give enough time to think, give enough time for all student to compose the answer before the teacher asks one student to answer the question.