1000 Ideas and Activities for Language Teachers – Sean Banville
397. NOISY DISCUSSION Students stand in a group and answer across one another. This is noisy and only to be done when adjacent classes are empty. It does allow students to practice making themselves understood and heard. It also provides a lot of fun for five or ten minutes. 398. ROUND QUESTIONS If there are three or more students answering the questions, students must follow on from what the student sitting on their right said. They must choose a word or point from that student’s answer to follow on from. 399. KEYWORD DISCUSSIONS The teacher selects keywords from the article and puts them on slips of paper, face down on the table. One student picks up a keyword and asks a question. The next student uses the same keyword to ask a different question. Continue until all students in the groups have asked a question using the same keyword. 400. KEYWORD MAPS The teacher creates a standard discussion sheet containing ten to twenty questions. The teacher then thinks of one word per question that the students must use in their answers to each of the questions. The teacher writes the keywords on the board so students know which word to include in which answer. 401. DISCUSSION MAPPING Introduce one keyword. Students start discussing that keyword. As they discuss, a secretary draws a map of topics denoting the different directions the discussion goes in. After the discussion, students try to retrace their discussion from the keyword map.
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