October 30

10 Questions

Here’s a fun activity which I’ve been doing with groups of eleven-year-olds this week.  It’s a fun way to practise question forms and includes some speaking practice too.

 

Elicit question words from the students and write them on the board.  Then divide the class into teams and give each team a piece of paper – I found that teams of three work well, although you may prefer pairs in order to get everyone working or fours if you have a larger class.  Give them ten minutes to write ten questions – personal information questions work best, though I didn’t specify when I did the activity.

 

Collect in their pieces of paper and explain the next stage.  Each team has a mini-whiteboard and pen.  You write a question on the board and the team has to decide if it’s grammatically correct or not. If they think it’s correct, put a tick; if they think it’s incorrect, they have to write the corrected version.  I use, “How old is you?” as an example.  As you do each question, keep the correct version on the board, awarding points each time a team is right.

 

When you have a number of questions (15 or so), collect in the mini-whiteboards and set up the final stage.  This is a “speed-dating” style activity in which all the students pair up and ask each other questions for a minute.  You then shout, “Change!” and they have to find another partner.

 

The activity is student-produced and some of my students were quite inventive, coming up with questions like, “Are you a banana?” which made the speaking stage very amusing.

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Posted October 30, 2012 by Teresa Bestwick in category Grammar Activities

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