| This exercise is designed to mold students brains
into the pattern of clauses. (It's such a pity that once you finally
get them swapping the subject and verb for questions, you suddenly
have to teach them to re-invert for forming clauses.) |
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| The rules of this activity are simple. Cut out the
30 cards. Students are randomly allotted cards, then they must ask
their classmates the questions on the cards. When asked, a student
must respond "I don't know...!!", with the information formatted
in an appropriate clause. |
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| For example: |
| Question: "Why do birds
sing?" |
| Response: "I don't know
why birds sing!!" |
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| The activity can be played in pairs or small groups.
It can also be an excellent warmer in which students mingle and ask
each other, provided that they have already been introduced to the
subject/verb order in clauses. |
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| Careful: |
| The questions of rows 7 & 8 begin with subjects,
so it's not necessary to re-invert the subject and verb to form the
clause. Rows 9 & 10 hold yes/no questions, so the clauses in the
answers should be started with "whether" or "if".
Those cards may be omitted to make the game easier. |
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