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Question races!

Posted by Keith

Language point: Questions

Put your students into pairs. Give each pair lots of small pieces of paper. Divide the board into three columns and give each column a heading, depending on what you want to practise, for example:

"Present simple" "Present continuous" "Present perfect"

Tell them that they have 10 minutes to make as many grammatically correct questions as possible for each of the three tenses.

One student from each pair is the writer and the other is the runner. The writer writes a question on one of the bits of paper. The runner comes to the board and sticks the piece of paper in the correct column. (you'll need some blue tac!)

After 10 mins stop them and take each question from the board (make sure they've written their names or a team name on the bits of paper). Get feedback as you read the question out and give one point to the pair for a correct question.

The pair with the most correct questions wins!!


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