Trainers’ Toolkit – Good morning radio

	Exercise nr 19: Good morning radio
Duration	10-15 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	Getting to know each other. Encouraging participants to speak up, to express themselves. Testing the sound on the devices they work on.
Group size	5-15 participants
Hashtags	#icebreaker #language #diversity #voice
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	No additional materials are needed.
Exercise agenda	This exercise will work best with an international group of participants. You can do it at the beginning of your training to bring some warm, friendly atmosphere to the group. This exercise focuses on speaking and listening. Ask everyone to turn off the cameras. Ask each person to prepare a short welcoming speech, however, in their native language e.g. “Good morning, greetings from Warsaw, the sun is shining outside. My name is …. and today I am/ I deal with…/ during this training I want….” Then each person, one by one, welcomes the group in their native language. It is important that everyone says 2-3 short sentences. The group’s task is to listen to different voices, different languages, and different statements. At the end of the exercise, talk about your impressions. You can use the following questions for the discussion:- How does it feel to speak your native language in front of an international group?- What did you notice while listening?-What does the voice ‘say’? At the end of the exercise, ask everyone to repeat in English what they have already said in their native language.
Possible modifications	You can also use this exercise when you are working with a group of people who speak the same language. If doing so, reflect upon voice cues: How did messages make you feel? How did you feel speaking to others without seeing their faces? etc. The topic of the speech can be different – you can ask the participants to briefly introduce themselves, tell you about their mood, about what everyone sees outside the window.
Credits	Compiled by Fundacja Culture Shock for TRENDSS – Transnational Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills (https://trendss.eu/)Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Co-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union