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Survey #4 - January 18, 2021
Lesson Collection #3 - Lesson 22d
Getting students to converse with each other in an ESL or EFL classroom is the goal of every teacher. Pairs of students ask each other the 10 questions printed on their worksheets and ask additional follow-up questions for more details. Some of the questions printed on the worksheet include:
Would you live on Mars for three years if you could? Why? Why not?
Would you rather time travel 50 years into the past or 50 years into the future? Why?
What kind of animal do you think you were in your previous life Why?
When you were a child, who was your favorite cartoon, comic or anime character? Why?
The goal of the lesson is for students to ask lots of follow-up questions to gather more information. There are spaces given on the printouts for students to keep notes of their partner's answers.
If time permits, students then change partners. Now they ask their new partner for the answers given by their previous partner. This requires students to shift from first person to third. (You changes to he or she.) They answer the questions according to the notes they kept during the first interview.
Although this is a simple exercise, students become very involved in asking each other questions and having the chance to talk about themselves in English.
For similar style lessons, see:
Survey #1 (Lesson Collection Set #3 - Lesson 22a)
Survey #2 (Lesson Collection Set #3 - Lesson 22b) -and-
Survey #3 (Lesson Collection Set #3 - Lesson 22c).
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