It gets your students talking and sharing opinions but also gives you a chance to listen in and to understand their motivation and attitudes towards languages.
Preparation
Make a copy of the discussion statements and cut them into strips so those students can take one statement at a time and discuss it. Add some statements of your own if your students have specific language issues they may want to discuss.
Procedure
- Put your students into groups of four or five and give each group a statement.
- Let them discuss the statement for a few minutes while you monitor and feed in any language they need.
- Then rotate the statements around the groups.
- Once all the students have discussed all the statements you might want to have a class vote to see what the consensus of opinion is on these statements and share some of your own opinions and insights.
Discussion statements
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This activity was originally published in December 2007
Comments
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Ice Breadking Activity
I would use this activity with my students on the first day of the course. It is a great activity to get to know the students' opinion about learning English. And it can also be use as ice-breaking activity.
Thank a lot for this brilliant activity.
Wonderful activity
That is wonderful activity. I think my students need it more. Some of them have difficulties learning the English language and also some of them think that they dont need to learn English or just any other languages. Very often they ask me " Do the English learn Azerbaijani in their school? When they get the answer "No"it it the point when discussion starts. I think everybody is looking for good reasons of the neccesity of learning language or just anything. They are inclined asking question "Why". Thank you for this awesome idea.
Age or level?
A range of 11-12, which mean age or level? I would like to improve writing and speaking skill. Do you have any idea?
Writing and speaking skills
Hi,
I prefer practicing Speaking skill through songs, that way students improve their fluency, rhythm and intonation in a dynamic way and the best of all, is that they reinforce grammar inductively through fill in the blanks exercises.
Good luck!
Kind regards,
Azucena Torres
Lima (Peru)
Is it hard being a teacher?
Hi my name is Meriem Herrati and am 16 years old a want to be a English teacher may I ask you a question? Is it hard to be a teacher of English or not?
Its not hard at all
its not hard at all, if you know what you are teaching, in other words you've got to be highly trained. its a really satisfying job