Students will be able to ask and answer write the answers on the board. Explain questions and then practice the target the target structure, or have students structure by writing their answers and create new questions and answers that their partners’ answers. show they understand it.
Preparation Introduce the Activity
1. Preview the questions from the Explain the goal: for students to find out Personal Information Interview about their partners by asking and worksheet or, using vocabulary from answering questions and to practice the selected dictionary page, create writing answers. four questions that practice the target grammar structure. Write these Model and Conduct the Activity questions in section A of the Interview 1. Ask yourself the Interview questions worksheet. aloud, and write your short answers on In sections B and C, write examples the worksheet you have copied on the of complete sentences based on the board or overhead transparency. Interview responses. For B, write a 2. Interview a student and write his/her sentence in the first person (e.g., My short answers on the board or on an hairstyle is short and straight.). For C, overhead transparency. write a sentence in the third person 3. Pair students. Have them write their own (e.g., Miguel’s hair is brown and wavy.). short answers on their worksheets first. 2. Duplicate a class set of the worksheet Then have them interview their partners and copy it onto the board or an and write their partners’ short answers. overhead transparency. 4. Have students write the follow-up sentences in sections B and C Review the Vocabulary independently while you monitor and Ask questions about the dictionary offer assistance. pictures (e.g., What is Miguel’s hairstyle?). For Multilevel Classes Pair literacy-level students or newcomers Teach the Grammar Point: with high beginning students. Have pairs Simple Past vs. Simple Present share a worksheet. Have the high and Future: Be beginning students write the follow-up sentences while partners help.
A. Read the interview question. Write your short answers to the questions. B. Interview your partner and write his/her short answers.
Interview question My answers My partner’s answers
1. What was your hair like when you were a child? 2. What was your hair like ten years ago? 3. What is your hairstyle now? 4. What will your hairstyle be next year?