Find Someone Who Worksheets

Ideal for warming up new classes and helping students get to know each other

Find Someone Who worksheets are useful as icebreakers, warmups, and fillers. This classic ESL classroom activity requires students to form questions properly using a prompt. The prompts typically spark interesting conversations. After all, people love talking about themselves! In order to complete the sheet, students have to speak to a wide variety of students in the classroom. This activity is also handy when students seem restless in their seats.

These ESL worksheets are in PDF format. You are free to download, print and photocopy them unmodified for classroom use.

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Download these free ‘ Find Someone Who Worksheets ‘ and use them in class today. Find Somebody who is a fantastic activity to use as an ice breaker / warm up activity, or as a time filler activity to get students talking in a communicative way. Below, you will find many free ‘find someone who’ worksheets on various different topics. You will also find an editable ‘find someone who’ worksheet template so you can easily add your own sentences and use in any class.

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How To Play

If you have not tried this activity before, then here is how to play ‘Find Someone Who’ in class:

  • Print and give one ‘Find Someone Who’ worksheet to each student.
  • Tell students that they must walk around the class and talk to their classmates and try to find someone who matches the characteristics described on the worksheet.
  • After finding someone who matches the sentence, students should write that student’s name on the worksheet, plus any other additional details they found out.
  • After five or ten minutes, stop the activity and ask students to share what they found out about their classmates.

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Find Someone Who – Printable Worksheets for Adult Classes

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Find someone who is a fun and engaging activity which is perfect for helping your adult ESL students practice their English skills while getting to know their classmates. It’s a great way to break the ice on the first day of class, build a sense of community, and improve conversational skills.

How to run a find someone who activity

To get started, give each student a copy of the question sheet and emphasise that they should   not write on the worksheet until the activity has started . Then, follow these steps:

  • Run through each row of the question sheet with your students, eliciting the questions they will need to ask to find someone whose name they can write in the name column.
  • Brainstorm some examples of follow-up questions that students can ask to find out more information for the extra information column. You can leave a couple of blank rows at the bottom of the question sheet and ask the class to come up with their own ideas for the last two items.
  • Encourage your students to get up and mingle with their classmates, trying to find one person whose details they can write in the appropriate row. Be sure to model the activity, as there’s plenty of room for misinterpretation.
  • To encourage everyone to mingle and meet new people, you might consider setting a rule that each student can only speak to the same person twice. However, this depends on the size of your group.
  • Feel free to join in the activity yourself! In fact, students are often a bit reluctant to get up and join in, so starting off yourself will encourage them to follow your lead.
  • After about 15-20 minutes, have everyone sit down and go through each of the questions. Ask students who they have found and any extra information they have discovered. This is a great opportunity to encourage further conversation and help your students get to know each other even better.

This activity is a fantastic way to improve conversational skills, build community, and get your students interacting one-on-one with their classmates.

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Thank you for sharing “survey” activity. Let me share my teaching experience at State Polytechnic of Padang-INDONESIA. The speaking activity is to ask students to go out from the classroom for a survey in Polytechnic’s campus in 15 minutes with a notebook and pen. Each student is free to choose a place she/he wants to survey (administration office, workshop, laboratory, parking lot, cafe, or others). They take notes and then go back to the classroom. In 2 or 3 minutes, the student individually presents orally what he/she has noticed during the survey.

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Find someone who activity

A ‘find someone who' activity is a speaking activity which involves learners trying to find someone in the group who matches a description.

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It involves learners getting up and talking to all the other members of the class.

Example The group are practising using the present perfect for experiences. Amongst the group there are learners who have to: find someone who has been abroad find someone who has eaten something really strange find someone who has done a bungee jump

In the classroom This is a very versatile activity, which can be adapted to almost any language aim. For example, learners can practise multi-word verbs (‘Find someone who has fallen out with their partner') or character vocabulary (‘Find someone who is a lone wolf').

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Using Find Someone Who as a worksheet alternative in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade lesson plans

Using “Find Someone Who” as a Worksheet Alternative in 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade

Find Someone Who is not just a fun ice breaker - it can be used to practice a variety of skills in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade

If you have been teaching 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade for a while, you have probably used a "Find Someone Who" activity as a back to school ice breaker.  You might have even done this ice breaker yourself during professional development.

But the "Find Someone Who" activity can be used for so much more than just team building - it can be used to review reading, math, writing, science, and social studies skills as well.

You can turn basically any worksheet into a more engaging activity with this fun idea!

How to Use "Find Someone Who" in the Upper Elementary Classroom

The idea behind "Find Someone Who" is simple, and 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students will catch on to this activity very quickly.

Basically, students are each given a "Find Someone Who" worksheet that has multiple questions on it.  But instead of answering the questions themselves, they must "Find Someone Who" can answer the questions for them.

In order to this, they wander around the classroom looking for a partner.  Once they find a partner, they each try and answer a question on the other's page.  Then, they go in search of another partner that can answer a different question.

The goal is that each question will be answered by a different person.  Usually, partners will put their initials next to the question they answered so that it's easier to see who answered what question.

See an example here with this free pdf "Find Someone Who" Activity that helps your students review classroom procedures here:

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Assessing "Find Someone Who" in 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Classrooms

This activity is not easy to grade, and is instead ideal instead for times when you want students to get extra practice but aren't needing a grade for the grade book.

However, there are still several ways to assess your students and hold them accountable for their work.  (And using a rubric is often the best way to get a grade for an activity like this.)

Have Students Complete a Quick Reflection

After you have completed the activity, ask students a few questions that will require them to reflect on some of the questions.  For example:

  • Which question was the hardest, and why?
  • Which question was the easiest, and why?
  • Did you learn something new?  Explain.
  • Explain how your partner answered this question.

Monitor Closely and Assess with a Checklist

As students are walking around finding partners to answer questions, you can walk around as well.  Listen in on conversations and watch students work.  You can learn a lot simply by listening.

If you want to be more intentional about this, then you could create a checklist that has each of your students' names.  Walk around the classroom, listening in on conversations with the goal of approaching each of your students once.  As you walk around and listen,  put a check next to each student that correctly answered the question you were listening in on.

Take a Look at Who Initialed

As they are completing this activity, students should put their initials next to the question they answered.  Knowing who answered different questions can help you with informal assessment.

While students are partnering up, take a look at some of the answers on their pages.  If you notice some wrong answers, you can pull students aside and walk them through the question while everyone else is still completing the activity.

Review Questions as a Class

After 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students have completed the activity, choose a few of the questions to go over as a class.

You could call on random students to answer one of the questions - and they could either be asked to answer it themselves, or tell who answered it on their page and have that student answer the question.

Or, if you notice that there were a few questions that many of your students struggled with, go over those specific questions with them.

This Reading Response Bundle includes pre-made "Find Someone Whos" for both fiction and nonfiction texts.  It also includes a variety of other reading response activities that you can use over and over again with different books.

Most of the activities are absolutely no prep - just print and go!

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Examples of Skills That Can Be Reviewed with "Find Someone Who"

The beauty of this activity is that it can be adapted for almost any skill.

You can take almost any worksheet that has multiple questions and turn it into a more engaging "Find Someone Who" activity.  All students have to do is start walking around the classroom looking for a partner to solve a problem.

Use this "Find Someone Who" activity to:

  • review classroom procedures
  • practice vocabulary words
  • respond to fiction and nonfiction texts 
  • review figurative language
  • practice multiplication facts
  • solve word problems
  • label cities or states on a map
  • review rounding
  • ..and so much more

Basically any skill that your upper elementary students need to review can be turned into a "Find Someone Who."

Variations and Differentiating "Find Someone Who"

Variation 1: partner explains, students write on own page.

This variation emphasizes speaking and listening skills.

Tell students that they will be writing on their own "Find Someone Who" page, but they must write down exactly what their partner tells them.  Students will be required to speak clearly and listen closely in order to complete this activity, especially if they are answering a question that requires multiple answers or steps.

Variation 2: Students Choose a Question for their Partner to Answer

This variation provides more of a challenge.

When students find a partner, instead of letting them answer any available question on the page, they choose the question for the partner to answer.

If the partner doesn't know how to answer that question, then the student can choose another question for the partner to answer.

This variation prevents students from going around and answering the exact same question on everyone's page.

Differentiated Variation 3: Pre-Teach a Question for Scaffolding

Consider pre-teaching a few of the questions to your struggling students or students that might need a boost of confidence.

Then, when they circulate amongst their classmates, they will be able to confidently answer a question.

However you use it, your upper elementary students are sure to love it!

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