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Topic “English”  

Use a simple conversational structure over three turns

Activity/strategy name and materials required How to do the activity Key principles for doing the activity and comments
How are you?

Two turns

  1. Ask each student in turn "how are you?" - pointing to the "how are you?" prompt card as you do so: point to the the "I'm..." prompt card (and cue in with "I'm..." if necessary). Wait for the student to respond;
  2. Let each student take it in turns to ask "how are you" to the others in the group.

Three turns

Once two turns is mastered as above, move to three turns:

  1. Do step 1 above;
  2. After the student says "I'm..." (e.g "I'm fine"), you point to a third cue card (either "Oh dear!" or "That's nice" as appropriate) and say the response;
  3. The students take it in turns to ask all the others in the group "how are you?" this time they must respond to the answer a student gives.

For the three turns part, if a student makes a different response to the answer to their question than one of the possible responses on the prompt cards then that's fine as long as it is relevant. Otherwise, prompt them to make a response from one of the prompt cards.

You could show different prompt cards, or you could show just one prompt card for the response in the last turn.
What have you been doing?

For this activity, a student using a contraction of the question is also fine (e.g. "What doing"), this activity is about creating turns in a conversation.
Topic of interest - what have you got?

Prompt cards for a "what have you got" conversation

Set of pictures (e.g from Google) relating to a topic of interest to the student - e.g. Tesco, the park, Eastenders.

Talk about things in the recent past

Activity/strategy name and materials required How to do the activity Key principles for doing the activity and comments
What have you done today?

Optional - way of recording students responses - e.g. paper/pen, whiteboard/marker
  1. Go round each student in turn asking what they have done today - e.g. "what did you do this morning": ideally one or two things each.
  2. Write and/or sketch something (very roughly!!) under each student's name on the sheet of paper (you can use this as a prompt later).
  3. After all students have said something, pretend to have "forotten" what they'd said - ask individual students to remind you, for example "Karen, what did Abdul do?" - use the prompt sheet if necessary.

Variations

  • After a student has said what they did, get them to ask their neighbour what they did.
  • Get the students to ask each other in pairs and then tell the whole group what their partner did.
  • Ask students to say what they did at the weekend or what they did in the holidays.
What have you done today - with a ball

Optional - way of recording students responses - e.g. paper/pen, whiteboard/marker

Soft ball or beanbag

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