❓❓❓ What are questions? You know what questions are, don’t you? I wonder if you also know all the ways of practicing them in fun ways... ❓❓❓

Well, even if you know all of them, I am still going to remind you about some.

⭐️ Interview Level 1️⃣

Prepare a list of questions and have the students answer them in pairs. Make some simple yet relevant questions for lower level students. Or some strange and interesting questions for higher level students. Or both. Make sure they keep track of their partner’s answers to report back to you/class later.

⭐️ Interview Level 2️⃣ (based on facts)

Say, your topic is inventions. Give your students some information about inventions, have them read it. Then give them time to prepare an interview role-play with one student being an inventor, the other – a journalist. Don’t forget to tell them what kinds of questions they’ve got to use, how many from each person and, of course, how long the dialogue should be.
Make sure to let them know they can interview anybody in the story, even a ghost or an animal (for instance, my students interviewed a stolen chick – if you want to know the full story, let me know).

⭐️ Interview Level 3️⃣ (based on imagination)

Have the students invent a topic. You could use some flash-cards (I use a game called Story inherited from a lovely colleague – hey, Yulia!) to give them some ideas. Follow the same procedure as above.
You might wonder why it is level 3. Well, it’s a tad bit simpler for you, but might be a lot more difficult for them as they need to make the story from scratch.

⭐️ Interview Level 4️⃣ (based on research)

Give your students a whole list of questions that might fit some kind of vocation. Have them transform the questions into the type or types you wish them to practice. Then make them do research. It’s a whole project!
After that, your students can interview a «real» person, as well as learn something new. Maybe even get inspired by someone. Win-win all around.

I’ve done all of the above mentioned activities with my B2 level students. I can rest assured that now they can use indirect and tag questions quite well.

In the comments you will find some beautiful (I am not humble in the least) question sets for the last activity. Enjoy!

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Thanks for reading!

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