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Circular Question Time
Aim: to practise giving extended answers and eliciting opinion
from others
TargetAudience: students
Relevance to CPE: Speaking Parts 2 and 3
Organisation: groups of 6-8 students per group
Materials needed: Worksheet (see next page) ; or one set of at
least 8 cards with differentquestions on for each group
1. Before class, prepare your cards by writing one question on
each one. You will need atleast 8 different questions for each
group, but you may repeat the questions with more thanone group.
The questions should be of a type similar to those in Part 3.
Alternatively youcan print out and then cut up the questions on the
worksheet.
2. Divide class into groups of 6-8 students and have them sit in
circles.
3. Put a set of cards in a pile in the middle of each group.
Student 1 (S1) takes a card, reads italoud and nominates another
student to answer. S1 keeps the card in front of her/him. S2answers
the question as fully as possible and then nominates another
student, S3, andasks his/her opinion. S3 first responds to what S2
has said and then gives his/her opinion.S3 then takes another card
from the pile, reads it aloud and nominates another student
toanswer. S3 keeps the card, and so on.
4. The activity continues in this way but different students
must be nominated so that eachstudent ends up with at least one
card. This means that the third student chosen in each
round should be one who has not yet got a card. You should
encourage answers to be asfully developed as possible and the third
student in each round should build on what hasbeen said before.
8/6/2019 MSP ACTIVITY Circular Question Time
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Circular Question Time - Worksheet
Are young people too competitive nowadays?
Do large families make for a more stable society?
Is ambition wrong?
Where does the future of education lie?
Is tourism a necessary evil?
Should violence and shocking images be censored from the TV
news?
Will e-learning be the educational method of the future?
At what age should people be allowed to drive?
Is it better to have work experience before going into higher
education?
What are some of the dangers with the spread of the
internet?
How are present-day values different from those of previous
generations?
What do you think are the major challenges the world faces
nowadays?
How are mobile phones changing the way we live and interact?
Do young people have too much freedom nowadays?
Are books a thing of the past?
Is letter-writing soon going to become a lost art?
Should children be made to go to school after the age of 15 if
they don't want to?
Do you think our planet will still be able to support us in 200
years time?
