Objectives:  Students will be able to use Internet chat.  Students will get to know their classmates better.  Material:  Computers connected to the Internet (preferably one per student) loaded with Web browsing software, AIM student handouts and paper cut into small slips. Time: 40 minutes if AIM is already installed on the machines and students have screen names.  Another half hour if you have to install AIM and get screen names. Level:  Low intermediate adult English students and above. Before the lesson Depending on how you have decided to install AIM on your machines and distribute screen names, make sure that AIM is installed on all the machines and students have screen names.  You may want to walk groups of students through the installation and registration process during the course of the week before the lesson (remember that you can only register about 4 or so screen names a day).  What I have done is registered 25 screen names on my own.   I distribute screen names and passwords to students.  I then walk students through the installation process during the first lesson.  Once is AIM is installed on the machines, you don’t have to do it again. Lesson Students sitting on one half of the lab write their screen names on small slips of papers.  Those small slips of paper are then randomly distributed to students sitting in the other half of the lab. Distribute the Steps To Signing On to AOL Instant MessengerHandout (this is a rather large Word document). Teacher then explains that they are going to be chatting with another member of the class and that they should not tell the person they are chatting with their name.  They should feel free to chat about anything they want to at first.  They should ask questions about that person and get to know them a little.  They are not allowed to ask any questions that deal with their chat partner’s appearance. Students sign on to AIM. Students chat back and forth for about 10 minutes. Students are then told to standup and walk around the room and talk to people they think may be their chat partner.  You can not ask people their screen names but you can ask their real names. After 5 minutes, students go back to their computers and try to guess who they have been chatting with.