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If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?
If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
What is one goal you’d like to accomplish during your lifetime?
When you were little, who was your favourite super hero and why? ...
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Keywords: conditionals, icebreaker, idea, questions, warmup
This is another version of a well known task based on the idea that there are two people/groups. One of which always lies whereas the other always tell the truth. All you need to do is read to your students the following story and give them some time to come ...
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Posted in ESL teaching ideas
Keywords: game, idea, lie, questions, quiz, speculating, trivia, truth
Prep
Print/photocopy question prompt sheet on to coloured card (laminate if desired), cut.
Download/print copies of the Conversation ControlTM sheets from here.
Print/photocopy SimplyQuestsTM. Check for supportive materials in the SimplyC.wikiTM.
Pre-task
Brainstorm vocabulary for the topic (draw a circle on the board, elicit relevant words and phrases). Check students understand important words. This subject is a natural prompt for reviewing future tenses, if you feel it necessary or useful, do a review of the forms beforehand.
Organizing your classroom
Individual students:
Place cards face-down on table and get student to select and answer questions one at a time.
Group class (2-5 students):
Place cards face-down on table. Each student picks a card and asks or answers the question(s).
Group class (6+ students)
Divide students into smaller groups (no more than 5 per group). Follow instructions as above.
In-task
Your main objective is to pay attention to errors and mistakes, correct some and take notes of others on your control sheet, stimulate discussion by agreeing or disagreeing and encouraging them to speak for as long as time allows.
With individual students you should also participate in the game ask/answer. With small groups, simply take notes and with large groups circulate around the room, supporting students as necessary.
For more information on making corrections, watch the videos on youtube.
Ending your lesson
Ask your students for feedback, what did they learn?
Go through the Conversation ControlTM sheet, talk about the errors and mistakes you heard, discuss the corrections together. Get them to take personalized notes of these.
Review the new words, phrases and pronunciation problems.
Remember to openly praise - mention great sentence structures or usage of difficult words.
Suggest post-task activities as listed in the SimplyQuestsTM page (try not to use the word homework).
Post task
Provide students with the SimplyQuestsTM (an email version available for registered users on site). Get them to choose a research activity they're interested in. With larger groups, divide your class into twos and threes and encourage them to split responsibilities, plan and do their activity as a team project. Provide a deadline of when they should report back to you.
Excerpt
Have you thought much about the global wars and conflicts in 2008?
Do you have any predictions about what might happen militarily in 2009?
What do you predict happening with some of your favourite sports teams or players? Tell us more. (If you're not into sports tell us about your favourite people in the entertainment industry). [...] ...
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Posted in ESL worksheets
Keywords: intermediate, new-year, politics, questions, simply-conversations, speaking
The full heading of this reading is "AIDS: don't die of ignorance". It answers the following questions:
What is AIDS?
How do you beecome infected?
How can you protect yourself from AIDS?
What should you do if you think you are infected?
What about things that pierce the skin?
What can’t you catch the virus from?
Excerpt
The Government’s clear medical advice is that you cannot get the AIDS virus from normal social contact with someone who is infected. You cannot get it from shaking hands. Nor is there any record of anyone becoming infected through kissing. There is no danger in sharing cups or cutlery. Nor can you catch it from public baths or toilets. [...]
Tasks
There aren't any tasks provided but here goes a bunch of my ideas:
Ask students the abovementioned questions and then show them the text to check their answers.
Blank out the abovementioned questions from the worksheet and have your learners figure them out.
Use the text as a discussion starter. Ask Ss controversial questions such as: "Should people suffering from AIDS be isolated? Should they be allowed to work in restaurants/hospitals? Why? Why not?"
If you have other ideas drop them here in the comments section below.
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Keywords: AIDS, controversial, drugs, questions, reading, sex, speaking
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Task 1
Answer the questions:
Describe Rafael’s pajamas.
Why did the people in Rafael’s audience shoot each other?
Does Ellie like her toes?
Why does Rafael sleep in the living room?
Excerpt
Apparently, when he swallowed the cod some people in the audience were so
excited they took out their guns and fired ...
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Posted in ESL worksheets
Keywords: diary, discussion, elementary, fish, gangsters, gun, mafia, phrasal verbs, questions, reading, shooting
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Task 1
Answer the questions:
What does Rafael do with the fish?
What does “on an impulse” mean?
How did Rafael learn to swallow big fish?
How do you pronounce “regurgitate.”
Excerpt
Then one day, on an impulse, he reached into the tank, grabbed a small blue fish and swallowed it. He ...
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Keywords: diary, discussion, elementary, fish, phrasal verbs, questions, reading
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Task 1
Answer the questions:
Ellie is an English teacher and Lucretia is a ... ?
Why do you think Lucretia was chopping up toads and frogs?
What is a crystal ball?
Explain the meaning of the following phrasal verbs: look up, chop up, pick up.
Excerpt
You know what the great ...
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Keywords: diary, elementary, future, phrasal verbs, questions, reading
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The idea has been exploited to the most. Here goes another version.
Tasks
Choose one of the famous people described below. Do not show the information to Student A.
Prepare questions to ask Student B about the famous person they chose. Examples: Where was your famous person born?
Answer Student B’s questions. ...
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Keywords: elementary, famous-people, game, questions, speaking
Shared by Michael
This simple activitity will allow your students to practice asking questions in a fun way. I've included a blank worksheet for you to write your own words by hand. You can vary the difficulty of this game by changing the words. You don't even have to restrict yourself ...
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Posted in ESL worksheets
Keywords: elementary, game, grammar, questions, speaking, writing
