Teaching Skills Input Session 8: Questions – Asking & Answering
Types of Questions
Polar Closed Questions
Closed Questions
Open Questions
Who Can I Ask?
- The class as a whole (expecting a choral answer)
- The class as a whole (expecting volunteers to answer)
- Specific nominated individuals
- Location-restricted students
- Category-restricted students
- Random students
- Sequences of students
What Do You Think?
I keep asking “Do you understand?” but I’m never sure if the answers they give me mean anything at all.
Rating the Question
R__________
A__________
T__________
E__________
CCQs
Language Item:
The kitchen has a cupboard.
CCQs:
Do you have a cupboard in your kitchen?
Does a cupboard have pots and pans in it?
Is a cupboard a wardrobe?
Is a cupboard made of cups and boards?
Language Item:
If it rains tomorrow, I’ll go to the museum.
CCQs:
Will you go to the museum if the sun is shining?
Is this a conditional sentence?
Which type of conditional sentence is it?
Might it be possible that I will go to the museum tomorrow?
