Lesson Plans: Questions

Making questions with appearances vocabulary speaking.

Simple questions lying game.

Easy questions practice on the topic of animals, including animal vocabulary games.

Brainstorming typical questions to use with business contacts, including meeting for the first time and again

Good and bad answers to typical job interview questions, including generalising good tactics and looking at different ways that those questions are often asked.

Question formation presentation with needs analysis

Putting words together to make tag questions personalised speaking practice

Asking and answering object and subject questions about festivals and celebrations speaking, with subject questions grammar presentation and names of important festivals and celebrations.

An easy and fun introduction to embedded questions through a quick reactions game and common small talk questions.

A fun choosing suitable subject questions for small talk and avoiding too personal subject questions speaking activity, including a subject questions grammar presentation.

Small talk on your work practice, including taboo questions and topics to avoid

Students rank, ask, answer and make good, so-so and unsuitable count and non-count personal questions, for grammar and cultural awareness practice, with suitable countable and uncountable noun questions for real-life speaking.

Easy general knowledge questions with fun ways of reacting quickly like slapping number cards, also good practice of quickly reading number words.

Four fun there are + numbers games, including guessing, competing and finding things in common, with suggested "How many" questions.

Synonyms and common confusions with small talk questions with how, starting with a fun quick reactions game, and ending with brainstorming.

Good and bad small talk questions with how review.

Small talk questions with how review with card games.

Three fun small talk questions with how dice games, including the most typical question starters, question endings, and answers, including ranking strong and weak positive and negative adjectives in answers.

Common words in small talk how questions and answers guessing game, including key words and tricky points like prepositions and determiners.

Realistic small questions with how situations to roleplay, followed by a different how questions presentation.

The two different kinds of how questions review, including a simple presentation game.

Students ask questions after hearing their partner's monologues on language learning, then analyse those questions for the form and meaning of subject questions - also good for learner training.

Practising closed question formation through typical questions for social situations such as yes/ no questions for starting conversations, ending with students trying to remember the questions they just used, plus an optional coin game.

Questions when you meet people review

Students practise both subject questions and a wide range of jobs people do vocabulary by setting each other easy quiz questions, then try to remember how suffixes are used to make job nouns.

Students use double-sided cards to try to make true example sentences with negative question tags and negative sentences with positive tag questions, and compare them to making yes/ no questions.

How to ask and deal with questions in presentations.

Actions you do every day vocabulary mixing activities.

Quick reactions game for short answers like "Yes, I can" and "No, there aren't" with students quickly folding and showing the right answers.

Guessing sports yes/ no questions games

Two communicative speaking games to practise contrasting subject questions and object questions, with a making new questions challenge and Answer Me.

Students give their opinions in answer to conversation questions where the question word is the subject, then analyse the grammar of the questions.

Students make general knowledge questions to test each other with using the given subject question starters.

Three easy and fun subject question games based on the classroom and the students in it.

Trivia quiz to practise subject questions

Students answer subject questions based on drawings of the answers, with amusing examples like a giraffe's scarf and a kangaroo's shoes - also good for animal and clothes vocabulary.

Defining crime and punishment vocabulary through answering subject questions with "Who...?", with optional subject questions grammar presentation and crime vocabulary further practice.

Freer communicative practice of subject questions by asking follow-up questions after mini-presentations on the suggested topics.

A guessing game for semi-free practice of subject questions, also good for describing people vocabulary.

Three fun guessing personal information in response to subject questions games - also good for getting to know you/ classroom dynamics.

Open question formation and meeting people presentation and practice first lesson through needs analysis pairwork interviews, suggested questions, more controlled practice, then roleplays.

Open questions and question formation practice through everyday conversation questions in a TTT lesson format, also good for Social English classes and learning meeting people.