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Seven Questions

This document provides instructions for an activity called "Seven Questions" that is intended to be an intermediate to advanced level speaking activity lasting up to 90 minutes. The activity involves asking participants a series of seven questions about their jobs to elicit a wide range of work-related vocabulary and present and past verb tenses. Participants can discuss their answers in pairs, small groups, or as a whole class. The instructor should take notes on examples of good language use and errors to provide feedback.

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Seven Questions

This document provides instructions for an activity called "Seven Questions" that is intended to be an intermediate to advanced level speaking activity lasting up to 90 minutes. The activity involves asking participants a series of seven questions about their jobs to elicit a wide range of work-related vocabulary and present and past verb tenses. Participants can discuss their answers in pairs, small groups, or as a whole class. The instructor should take notes on examples of good language use and errors to provide feedback.

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Seven Questions

Level: Intermediate- Advanced


Time: Up to 90 minutes
Language Focus: Range of present and past tenses, modal verbs and work-related
vocabulary.
Skills: Speaking

This activity could be approached in a variety of ways. The participants could discuss
their answers to the questions in pairs or small groups and then report back to the
rest of the group or the trainer and the whole group could go through the questions
together so that the activity has more of an open discussion feel to it. Alternatively
you could combine the two.

The questions have been designed to elicit a wide range of language from the
learners. Seek to ensure that the learners are responding to the questions with the
appropriate language usage, e.g. question 2 requires an answer in the present
perfect simple or continuous.

I recommend making notes while the participants are speaking. Note down any
examples of good language use and any errors. When all the questions have been
answered give feedback to the group as a whole: both the positive feedback and
evidence of mistake-making. Encourage the learners to correct the errors made.

Make the most of this activity to learn as much as you can about the learners´ jobs
and, where possible, direct conversations towards the relationship between the
nature of their work and the English they need. Especially for one-to-one or small
group courses, recording the participants answering the questions and then listening
back to the recording with them can be very effective.
Seven Questions

1. Is there such a thing as a typical day in your job?

2. How long have you done your current job for?

3. Do you prefer your current job to jobs you had before?

4. What would you change about your job, if you could?

5. What is the most challenging part of your job?

6.What motivates you at work?

7. If a new person started working in your department, what advice would


you give them?
BE Lessson Source 2011

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