Questioning Activity: 20 questions

Ш Materials: Pictures or names of person, place or thing on cue cards

Ш Goal: to get students thinking critically and interacting in the target language

Ш Procedure

1. Pair off students

2. Give students cue cards with pictures or words of people, places or things.

3. Tell students what categories the pictures are from (as a clue).

4. One student asks and the other answers until the correct answer is given and then they switch roles

Ш Variations

1. Use yes/no questions only

2. Kinaesthetic: students circulate with unknown words on their backs and ask each other

questions.

3. Use verbs.

Ш Time: depends on time available

Ш

Questioning Activity: Survey (Bilash, 2006)

Ш Materials: list of questions prepared by teacher or students

Ш Goal: to get students speaking and thinking in target language

Ш Procedure

1. Give students prepared questionnaire or get students to prepare their own

2. Students will walk around the room and ask one another their questions

3. Students may then be asked to present people interviewed to entire class or smaller group

Ш Variations

1. Intermediate students may use info to write a story

Ш Time

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