I was looking through some material we had lying around for five-minute activities and came across this one that I haven’t yet used with my students as a warmer.
Create some placards with some instructions for the students to follow. The instructions can be something like – ‘say something nice about my English’, or, tell me something nice about my eyes’. Pin or tape each placard to the student’s backs and ask them to move around, reading and obeying the instructions as they read them.
Update:
I found out something interesting with one of my groups when we tried out this activity. My group has a good group feeling and get along just fine, its mixed adults and has a teenager in the group too. After explaining what the activity was and fixing the instructions to each person, they mingled around but were not saying anything. I asked them if they understood to which they replied yes. After a little prompting from me to get them going, they were still pretty quiet. Finally I asked them if the instructions were too hard or they just didn’t want to take part and they told me that they were embarrassed to give compliments to each other, as per the instructions hahahahaha!! A little more encouragement including compliments from me to get them going and we were soon rolling. Next time, I’ll choose something that will be probably a lot simpler for them to do, requiring no blushing 
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