ICEBREAKER ACTIVITY-1
Icebreaker Activity
"Beyond Stereotypes" – Let's break the "clichés" together!
🔹 Objective:
Get ready to challenge stereotypes and share your own stories! Together, we’ll find out if these clichés are true, false… or somewhere in between.
🔹 How to play:
1️⃣ Form your groups and get your stereotype card from your teacher.
2️⃣ Read your stereotype aloud and discuss it within your group.
- Is it true? False? Sometimes a bit of both?
- Share your personal experiences, funny stories, or surprising facts!
3️⃣ Group time!
After your discussions, each group shares what they’ve learned with everyone.
4️⃣ Time to vote!
As a whole group, decide: is this stereotype mostly TRUE or FALSE based on your experiences?
🔹 Extra fun:
Spice up the game with little challenges linked to the stereotypes!
👉 Know a traditional dance? Show us!
👉 Want to describe (or even draw!) a typical dish from your country? Go for it!
👉 Any stereotype you love to debunk? Now's your moment!
💡 Goal:
Have fun, learn from each other, and prove that we’re all much more than clichés!
Examples of Stereotypes
Italy
- Obsessed with food: Italians are often perceived as being very passionate about food,with meals playing a central role in their daily lives.
Talk with their hands: It is common to think that Italians use a lot of gestures to
communicate.
- Always late: There is a stereotype that Italians are not very punctual.
- Football fanatics: Football is often considered a national passion in Italy.
Spain (Barcelona)
- Party lovers: Spaniards, and particularly Barcelonians, are often seen as loving to party and enjoy nightlife.
- Daily siesta: There is a common belief that Spaniards take a nap every afternoon.
- Passionate about bullAighting: Although bullLighting is banned in Catalonia, it remains a stereotype associated with Spain.
- Tapas lovers: Spaniards are often perceived as eating tapas at all hours.
Finland
1. Reserved and silent: Finns are often seen as introverted and not very talkative. 2. Sauna enthusiasts: The sauna is an integral part of Finnish culture, and Finns are
perceived as going to the sauna very frequently.
3. Honest: Finns are reputed for their honesty and integrity.
4. Nature lovers: They are often perceived as loving nature and outdoor activities.
La Réunion
- 1. Cultural melting pot: Due to its history, La Ré union is often seen as a melting pot of European, African, Indian, and Chinese cultures.
2. Relaxed island life: Ré unionnais are perceived as having a more relaxed and less stressed
lifestyle.
- 3. Spicy cuisine: Ré unionnais cuisine is known for being rich in spices and Llavors
- 4. Music and dance lovers: Music and dance, especially séga and maloya, are important elements of Réunionnais culture.
Beyond Stereotypes
italy
Rice girls (Gaia, Júlia, Hermione, Marie)
Spain:
- Spain people we foten speack very loud and they shout a little bit.
- They have a nap after lunch and it’s so common for many spanish people.
- They are so passionate about bullfighting and they live it a lot
- In Spain and more in the south their eat taps at their meals
Italy:
- They are not obssesed with the food but their cusine is very important for their trade.
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Lucia Musiani, Léa Maillot, Ariadna Sarri and Tessa Maillot
We are not obsessed, but very proud of our own food.
We need to express ourselves with our hands, not everyone do it, but is so common.
There are two sides, one of people on time and other one for people late.
We love this sport, expecially boys. We are not fanatics, but really competitives and there are many people who cheer for a team.
Italy : Kelingra (Rachelle, Ingrid, Tariku et Kéliane)
- The food is very important, like the meals of the day
- The grand-parents cook every time for their family
- Fast food is against the culture of food in Italy
Take with their hands : TRUE
- Every moment that they talk, they use hands for people to understand them
Always late : TRUE
- Italians can't arrive on time because they don't care about time
Football fanatics : BOTH
- Not all the Italians love football
- It depends on the family and the tradition
Lucia ; Tessa ; Ariadna; Léa
The weather, landscape and sea help people lifes to be less stressful so that our island is considered as a relaxed island
There is a wide variety of spices and chilly (Massala; Saffron, Turmeric...). That comes from India.
Séga and maloya are dances and musics that are typical from Réunion Island and it's a part of the history of our ancestors (slaves)
Spain : Kelingra
Party lovers : TRUE
- Young people are always enjoying night time
- Ingrid cousins like parties
Daily Siesta : TRUE
- It depends of your timetable
- People like to take a nap
Passionate about bullfighting : TRUE
- Because it's not good to kill the bull in front of everyone
Tapas lovers : BOTH
- They don't it tapas in the morning but in the afternoon
- They like tapas with beer and when they are with friends
Maël, Camille, Arianna, Gil
Rice Girls
- Spain people we foten speack very loud and they shout a little bit.
- They have a nap after lunch and it’s so common for many spanish people.
- They are so passionate about bullfighting and they live it a lot
- In Spain and more in the south their eat taps at their meals
Italy:
- They are not obssesed with the food but their cusine is very important for their trade.
- They talk with their hands, in the south more than the nord and they are unvolunteer actions.
- They aren’t always la
Reunion Island : Kelingra
- There is a mix of every cultures, religions and nationalities
- In St-Charles we are allowed to wear religious signs
Relaxed island life : BOTH
- It depends of the way of life, mindset, work, place...
Spicy cuisine : VERY TRUE
- We had spice in every meal
Music and dance lovers : TRUE
- In all Reunionese parties we dance Maloya and Sega
Lucia, Tessa, Léa and Ariadna
Daily siesta: True because Spaniards love to sleep aprox. 1 hour after lunch whenever they can
Passionate about bullfighting: Not 100% true because nowadays people care more about the treat of animals than before
Tapas lovers: True because it is typical from Spain but not at all hours (only for lunch and dinner)