Personal Information and Daily Life
Aim: |
to practise asking and answering questions about personal information and daily life |
Target Audience: |
students |
Relevance to SfL: |
Speaking and Listening Mode Entry 1, Phases 1a, 1b and 2b |
Organisation: |
pairs then mingling with other students |
Materials needed: |
- Photocopy and cut up sufficient copies of Worksheet A for one set per pair.
- Divide the class into pairs depending on language ability: weak-weak and strong-strong or weak-strong.
- Give different sets of jumbled cards to different pairs.
- Ask the students to rearrange the cards into questions. (You could tell them that these are typical questions in Skills for Life Entry 1 Speaking and Listening if you wish.) Go round the class and check that each pair produces three correct questions.
- Give students Worksheet B and ask them to copy their questions into the table.
- Students mingle with other pairs and copy the other pairs’ questions until they have nine different questions written in the table.
- Check the meaning of the questions then drill them as a class and individually.
- In the whole class, ask students to provide answers to some of the questions. Practise a few questions and answers in open pairs (one student to another across the class).
- Point out the spaces in the summary table for students to record their partner’s answers. Students ask and answer questions with their partner and fill in their tables.
- Students mingle and ask and answer the questions with two other students.
- Do a whole class feedback. Ask students to tell you what they found out/any interesting answers/any surprises.
Notes/Variations:
In classes where you have weaker students:
- At stage 3
- give weaker pairs one question at a time and stronger pairs all the questions at once
- with weak-strong pairs or those of medium ability, give them the first question on its own, then the final two questions mixed up together.
- At stage 6, vary the number of questions that you ask students to fill in. This would also be useful if you have more limited time.
Extension
As an extension, get students to write further questions in pairs. These can then be cut up and given to other pairs to re-order. Students write down the questions and ask and answer with their partner.