view a plan Here ESL students learn to form questions while
learning information about their teacher Title – Information
about the teacher By – Chris Evenden Primary Subject – Language
Arts Grade Level – Any/All I teach English as a foreign
language, and one of the big problems all students have is that
of forming questions. Prior to the class, prepare an overhead
transparency with facts about yourself. These facts may include
things like: married, number of siblings, favorite food,
favorite book, etc., type of music that you hate, etc. Include
about 8 or 10 things. Show the OHT to the class, and get them to
work in pairs, trying to decide what each piece of information
refers to. Show students how to tackle this by (for lower
levels) writing your name on the board and eliciting the
question that would give the answer, e.g. ‘Chris’ needs the
question ‘What’s your name?’ whilst ‘her name is Chris’ requires
a question in the third person. Students work in pairs deciding
what each piece of information refers to,