ESL and EFL discussion on what questions lead to great conversations.
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Level: A2 B1 B2 Handout: TPT 0.99$ Media: article Language focus: body, should and shouldn’t (modals), emotions When you speak, do you think of your body language? Or when you listen, do you think of what your face looks like to the person who is talking? If you are a…
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Level: A2, B1, B2 Discussion questions: in the post Media: Video Language focus: environment, action verbs, household items Can you live a zero-waste life? I know I can’t…not yet anyway. But every year I try to incorporate a new environmentally friendly practice. For example, I switched my paper napkins for…
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Can you describe what emotions you are experiencing right now? This is the question Tiffany Watt Smith asks her TED audience to sensitize them on how easy or how hard it is to put words on our emotions. This is a fantastic presentation to conjure the vocabulary of emotions and…
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I am an amateur rock climber…very amateur. It’s not for everyone, I know. But what is interesting about rock climbing is it puts you smack in the middle of a discussion between your “afraid-self” and your “courageous-self”. Alex Honnold, famed for climbing Yosemite’s El Capitan without ropes, candidly talks about…
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What have I learned from soap operas? Honestly, nothing. Except, there was one particularly boring summer, I was a teenager, no friends close by, and no motivation to get off the basement sofa. I got sucked into the soap opera vortex. There I learnt that I could spend an entire…
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Level: B1, B2, C1 Handout on TPT 0.99$ (task cards included) Language focus: modal auxiliaries, opinions Media: video What matters most in life? A nice juicy ESL discussion question that is maybe not so easy to answer. Or is it? The main categories We could start by exploring the large…
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Ever get in the car and suddenly a tune comes on that just takes you right out of your thoughts and makes you break into song? Or perhaps you drift into fantasy land and pump out an awesome guitare solo…leaving you to feel like a master of skill…powerful. Or perhaps…
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Who is an entrepreneur? As you may have noticed from its odd pronunciation, the word comes from the French–it means someone who takes something on by him or herself. In French, entreprendre means to endeavour. So perhaps its meaning could be clarified if we re-coined the term as an endeavouror.…
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What did you want to be when you were growing up? Personally, I wanted to be a teacher, a veterinarian, a filmmaker, a programmer, a social worker and then a teacher again. The prospect of choosing one single thing was super hard for me. But choose I did, and I…
