Question Tags
B1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice of Tag Questions in the context of An audio about family
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide specific information listening practice using a text about Family members
Procedure (22-34 minutes)
work with partner. Say a sentences and check if your partner agrees that is true in their family or not. (Elnaz has a sister) (Elena has a brother) (Faezeh is a leader of feminism in their family) (Aida lives with her parents) *are we going to do this alone or with partners? *should we talk or write about sentences? *how much time do we have?
Let's listen to a part of speech. What is he telling us? *are we going to listen in details or general listening? *should we write something or not? *is this a pair work task or ana individual task?
Here, I pass out the transcripts and play the file again. *what are these papers? *are we allowed to write something?
I ask about the mentioning sentences that are in the papers ask 1/2 person(s) to come in to the board and write the sentence that he/she reads.
"They are visiting here with you, aren't they?" "That's nice, isn't it?" *Does the speaker want information or confirmation? confirmation *How many parts of a sentence we have? 2 *Is the first part neg or pos? pos *Is the tag part neg or pos? pos *Should we put everything like (. , ; : ! ?) just next to the first part? no *Does the tense of the tag match the tense of the main sentence? yes *When the speaker is sure, does the tag intonation rise or fall? fall *When the speaker really asks a question and is unsure, intonation will be ...? rise
now the students join me and practice together : - They play football, ..........? - When you arrived, she had already left,..........? - You would never tell him,..........? - Henry and Juliet have just arrived,..........? - He was at the concert,..........? - She arrived too late,..........?
Here with a free-discussion practice students will face each other 2 by2 and guess 2 things about them and then ask them freely by making tag questions. (It can be face to face or onion ring.) :)
