[ola] Re: Asking Questions
- From: Cathy Bird <cathy.bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:01:43 -0700 (MST)
In the vein of having fun... how about making cootie catchers with questions on
the first four flaps. Under a flap would be two follow-up questions that expand
on the main question.
You could even have themes and colors. A selection of family questions (on
green paper) that get increasingly more abstract or philosophical...Why not?
Cathy Bird, via iPad
> On Jan 25, 2014, at 7:06 AM, "Gmail" <inashland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Questions
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> Amanda -
>
> Yes, by definition, an Intermediate speaker/writer must be able to prove the
> ability to ask a variety of question. One idea I used with a lot of success
> was to have five questions, as much as possible linked or follow-up
> questions, written on the board. Students would stand back to back and
> student A would read/ask the questions of student B who could only listen to
> the questions and respond. Once those five questions were done with, they
> changed places and another set of 5 questions were shown. Key to this is
> teaching kids to follow up with their own follow up questions other than
> "Why?"
>
> Example 1: Student A asks student B this question - Do you think cats are
> smarter than dogs or do you think dogs are smarter than cats? Student B
> answers, The follow up question is, "Can you give me one example to prove
> your point?
>
> Example 2: Student A asks student B this question - Do you prefer to live in
> a small town, like Central Point, or a large city, like Chicago? After the
> answer, the follow up: What advantages or disadvantages can you think of for
> living in a large city/or a small city?
>
> You can adapt these questions to your needs. But it was a warm up activity
> for a few minutes while I took role. Then I'd ask these questions to the
> class and get volunteers to answer, and there were natural conversations
> that grew out of each of the questions. Now, this is not an activity to do
> every day as it would get old, but when I thought of good questions, it was
> something to do. The kids saw questions, heard them, and eventually were
> able to ask their own.
>
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> Hi,
> I've been pondering something the past few days. My students are 9th
> graders, (they've had a year and a half of Spanish prior to this), and the
> goal is to get them to the NH/IL level by the end of the year. It's my
> understanding that an important marker of the Intermediate level is asking
> questions. Some of the students do this with ease already, which is great!
> My wonderings are around how to get certain students to ask questions in
> Spanish, when they struggle to ask questions in English. perhaps due to lack
> of interest or curiosity in general. This is kind of along the same lines of
> "can younger learners attain Superior level proficiency in the second
> language", because they are unlikely to be thinking abstractly even in their
> native language.
>
> A more concrete question- how have you been practicing question-asking with
> your students? I struggle to make the topics broad. I had some success once
> with the prompt "I have a new roommate- ask me questions".
>
> Thanks for your thoughts! Have a wonderful weekend :)
>
> -Amanda
>
>
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