What country are you from? What is your favorite food to cook? What is your favorite sport to watch? Pupils practice English and learn more about their classmates with a set of conversational questions.

Concepts

introductions, conversation skills, conversational english

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Hand out for learners to practice at home with their parents
• Cut the sentences into strips and have class members pick one at random to answer
• Use as a brainstorming resource before an autobiograhical writing assignment

Classroom Considerations

• Some vocabulary words may need to be pre-taught before distributing to beginning English learners
• Questions are designed for adult English learners, but could be modified for younger classes

Pros

• Provides additional questions for higher level readers or English speakers
• Versatile for multiple uses in the classroom

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.4.6 SL.5.6 SL.6.6 SL.7.6 SL.8.6