Include physical, emotional, and personality traits. Select a partner for each student at random. Instruct one person to read his self-description to the other. Then switch roles. Have each pair join with a new pair to form a group of four.
Partners then introduce each other to the new pair in terms of the self-description.
The last part of this exercise is highly personal. Sharing should be optional. Students are much more comfortable if they know that it will be confidential. Write ten adjectives describing yourself. Look at question one again.