My students love to do all class speaking activities and I try to make the most out of them and push the students to ask and answer questions. About a year ago or so I was inspired by an activity I came across on this blog http://elmundodebirch.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/a-different-take-on-communicative-activities/ and ever since I have made one for just about every topic we cover. I call it “la búsqueda del tesoro” or treasure hunt and it requires the students to create questions based on a criteria I set up. They then need to find someone that meets that criteria by asking different students in class the question they created. Once they found that person they can write their name and information.
Here are a few examples:
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How do you get your students to ask questions???
Hola de nuevo 🙂
Yo hago una actividad similar, se llama “encuentra a alguien que…”
Los estudiantes tienen que buscar respuestas a preguntas importantes usando sus compañeros de clase como sus recursos. Es un buen repaso antes de un examen! Esto es un ejemplo:
https://docs.google.com/a/ltps.info/file/d/0B8ugH_L-Ri0yQ3B4TmJjUGxiV0U/edit
Ellos no pueden hablar ingles durante esta actividad, o pierden puntos. (yo hago muchas actividades de comunicacion que se llama Solamente Español; cuelgo un sombrero en el pizarron para significar no ingles)
Las primeras 2-3 personas que tienen todas las respuestas correctas reciben un premio!