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Feeling and grammar

Typical questions

Grammar:	Question formation-varied interrogatives
Level:	Beginner to elementary
Time:	20-30 minutes
Materials:	None

In class

1. 
   Ask the students to draw a quick sketch of a four-year-old they know well. Give them these typical questions such a person may ask, e.g. ‘Mummy, does the moon go for a wee-wee?’ ‘Where did I come from?’. Ask each student to write half a dozen questions such a person might ask, writing them in speech bubbles on the drawing. Go round and help with the grammar.
   
2. 
   Get the students to fill the board with their most interesting four-year-old questions.
   

Variations

This can be used with various question situations. The following examples work well:

• 
  Ask the students to imagine a court room-the prosecution barrister is questioning a defense witness. Tell the students to write a dozen questions the prosecution might ask.
  
• 
  What kind of questions might a woman going to a
  

foreign country want to ask a woman friend living in this
country about the man or the woman in the country?
And what might a man want to ask a man?

• 
  What kind of questions are you shocked to be asked in an English-speaking country and what questions are you surprised not to be asked?
  

Picture the past