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Gap Activities Teachers are often searching for activities to
make their classroom more interactive; language teachers in
particular are also looking for activities that promote target
language use. Info Gap activities are excellent activities as
they force the students to ask each other questions; these
activities help make the language classroom experience more
meaningful and authentic. This section will explain in more
detail what Info Gap activities are and why they are useful; it
will also give some examples of Info Gap activities for any
language classroom. An Info Gap activity takes place between
students, not between a student and a teacher, though a teacher
can certainly demonstrate the activity. The two students will be
asking each other questions to which they don’t know the answer;
these questions are called referential questions. The goal of
the activity is for the students to discover certain
information, whether about the other pers