Teaching Question Making to Beginners A lower level best-practice method for adding do’s and don’ts.
Some Examples Have I some apples? Where she lives? Where the doctor does work? How I can spell “video”? Did you talked to my sister? Why I can’t go out? Where is she go shopping? Some Examples
Yes/no questions Wh- questions Past and present tense Level 1 students
Kinesthetic Silent Way Relationship Key Points
Every time I try to Get students to identify the parts of the sentence Get one proper ask/answer Pay attention to details of speech Every time I try to
Stages 1st – Make simple sentences with the new vocab 2nd – Make questions with the same vocab and simple verbs like to be 3rd – Make questions with the same vocab + more difficult verbs 4th – Make questions with the same vocab + more difficult verbs + question words Stages
Introduce more complicated additions to sentences -in the morning/ at night/ blue /3- which introduces more complicated question words like which, how many/ when. Start flowing back and forth between past and present tense. Get students comfortable with the exchange between the two. Practice past tense negative questions. Last stages
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