Categorizing IS vs.

IS NOT
-give SS pictures/objects (of
Sentence finishers things, actions, etc.), SS
E.g. A screwdriver is decide if target word can be Venn Diagram
used for… Trick questions used to describe it -e.g. SS determine if
E.g. So, when you -e.g. Is this color blue? activities are done indoors,
are made (different shades of blue) outdoors, or could be
Open questions
redundant, you did -e.g. Is this a cup? either
E.g. What can you
something wrong -help build SS cognitive
buy in a
newsagent’s? domain/word associations
How to write good CCQs Categorizing
Closed questions E.g. Display Questions: T -Check good dictionary or
grammar reference to find Teacher gives three
Is a test-tube big or knows answer, checking
core meaning of structure definitions for a word and
small? core meaning, clear
-Turn core meaning into a students guess which is
right/wrong answer: simple question
-explore parameters of correct
meaning
Activities Students mime the word
Referential Questions
Questions: real Concept
questions, more open, Checking
Strategies Guided Mind Mapping
SS can respond freely
and personally e.g. Mind map of charities:
Asking why
-especially for low level Students ID objects in the names of charities, who do
Asking about preference or classroom they help, how to they
students.
experience -effective follow-on question help, who would you
-aimed more at higher level students. to whatever the student has
-SS can use a wide range of vocabulary been asked before. donate to?
around the target language. What Checking the context
-cuts down teacher talking NOT to Do
-can give the teacher a clear sign of rather than the
time and provides the
whether the student understands the student with a great concept
meaning, form, and function of the E.g. ‘He didn’t know the answer
opportunity to explain
word. Using language
themselves and their more Using CCQs to the exam question so he
thought process.
difficult than the item unnecessarily made something up‘. CCQ –
Using the target
-getbeing
the student
checkedto use more ‘Did he pass the exam?’ (This
of the language related to language in the CCQ
does not check the meaning of
the topic, rather than just the phrasal verb ‘make up’).
E.g. Teacher shows the
say yes/no
class a picture of an
E.g. He hasn’t finished his
E.g. ‘When Bill arrived, we were having eagle in flight and asks a
homework yet. CCQ –
lunch’. CCQ – ‘Had we already started CCQ – ‘Can an eagle fly?’
‘Has he already finished?’
lunch when Bill arrived? (If teaching (Bemused look from
(Checking the present
the past continuous, the students are students!)
perfect with the present
unlikely to have much awareness of the
perfect).
past perfect).