This is a kind of class survey where you can practise asking for personal information. The great thing about this activity is that nobody needs to write anything so you need absolutely no materials, all you need is enough space for your whole class to stand up in a line (it doesn't have to be straight!)

Procedure

• Students ask each other questions in order to organise themselves in line depending on their answers. For example, ‘When's your birthday?' the line is formed from January birthdays through to December birthdays all in the correct order.
• Other questions you can use are, ‘What time did you go to bed last night?', ‘How many countries have you visited?', ‘How much TV did you watch yesterday?' etc. etc.
• When all the students are in the line in order, ask them each to call out their answers to check they are all in the right place.

By Jo Budden

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