A selection of English ESL follow up questions printables

Questionnaire practicing Present Perfect and asking follow up questions.  Encourages conversation buy asking more questions.   

Present Perfect Questionnaire with follow up questions

Students use follow up questions to make two simple dialogues longer and more interesting.  Students can then practice the dialogue and act out the role-play.  

Using Follow up Questions to build a dialogue

 "Speed Date" style lesson.

Students practice using "When was the last time you...." and asking Follow-up questions. 



Designed for 1 hour adult beginners. 

Speed Dating using When was the last time and Follow-up Questions

‘WORD UP’ is a fantastic game for students learning English.

If you haven't got it yet then go out and find it. You will be glad you did.



The genius of this game is that students are reading, speaking English and listening to English IN English without even realising it!



However, my students are younger than those that this game was designed for and so I have been forced to make my own questions and answers and also to uncomplicate the rules a bit!



The idea is still the same, but FIRST…



You will need to print out and make the dice included in this document.

You will need to print out all the WORD UP 'Chance' cards.

You will need to print out all the question sheets and answer sheets.

You will also need eight tiddly winks (or something similar) of each of the following colors: Orange, green, blue and yellow.

(I use plastic colored clothes pegs which the students can clip to their Q & A cards.)



There are four types of questions.



ORANGE:  Missing words.

There is a short sentence with a word missing.

(Tell the student how many letters there are in the answer.)

GREEN:  A crossword clue.

General knowledge or easy trivia or logic based questions.

BLUE:  Do you know the answer?

Each question has TWO options. Choose the correct one to win the token.

YELLOW:  Spelling.

A basic list of words to spell. (The words are on the same side as the answers.)



RULES:



The game can be played by up to four players or teams.

Each team or student has to get two questions right from each of the four categories.

The first team to collect two tokens from each category (eight in all) is the winner.

Roll the dice to determine the kind of question you will be asked.

The team on your right will ask the questions. (The same player asks you the questions throughout the game.)

If you land on a ‘Word Up’ chance card then read and follow the instructions on it.

The questions are numbered but they can be asked in any order.



NOTES: 



PRINTING: 

All the question sheets and answer sheets are numbered.

The sheets are laid out so they can be printed 'back to back'. 

This means that the questions for sheet 1, for example, will have the answers to sheet 1 on the reverse.

(This requires some nifty finger work when operating your print preview panel!)



OBJECTIVE:

For most children who play this game there is usually only one answer. 

In fact, some of the questions have more than one possible answer.

For example the color of blood can be crimson as well as red.

But most young learners won't need to be confused by such complicated alternatives just yet!



Although the game is competitive (and winning is important despite what the tree huggers tell you) the objective of the game from the teachers point of view is that the kids are talking and listening in English as much as possible.



(Unfortunately the images are degraded slightly because of the size limitations of this website. Email me for a better quality set of images.)



Good luck and send feedback, please! KKM



WORD UP (For kids!)

a warm up or wrap up activity that gets learners to come up with questions related to business / company work topics. You can extend the activity by asking participants to add follow-up questions after their partners answer the first question. Pretty straightforward and can be adapted to add more difficult vocab if learners are higher level

Business Topics WH-Q&A Board Game

QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE TOPIC `LAUGHTER` 
PRE-TASKS.
DISCUSS WITH YOUR PARTNER  THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
1.	What role does laughter play in our daily lives?
2.	What makes you laugh the most?
3.	In your opinion, what information about laugher will be in the video?
FOLLOW -UP TASKS.
WORK IN PAIRS.
1.	Briefly retell the main points of the video about laughter.
2.	What have you learned about laughter?


PRE TASKS AND FOLLOW UP TASKS

Interview questions about fashion for intermediate students. The list starts with more simple questions building up to 3 debatable issues that you might want to discuss in more depth, or use for the purposes of a follow-up persuasive (=argumentative) writing task. Bless up, Kisdobos

Interview Questions about Fashion (interm.)

NOTE: Green question 11 there should be a little heart, which disappeared during formating.
Find the key to open the box kind of a game. Pupils follow a series of tasks. Each task leads to the next one until they locate the hidden key to open the "box". The game requires some material and time to prepare. Includes vocabulary tasks, pronunciation, general knowledge, and logical thinking. Tasks for up to 3 teams

Classroom ESCAPE GAME

This worksheet aims to expand students\' vocabulary bank on clothing items which probably pop up in everyday conversation frequently. 



Except handing out this worksheet as homework, teachers can also cut out the pictures and names to set up a matching game. Some more follow-up questions can be made, eg. \'What items would you wear in winter?\'

Vocabulary of Clothing Items

Students do one exercise at a time and then discuss the follow-up question below each exercise.
Students do one exercise at a time and then discuss the follow-up question below each exercise.

Restaurant (A2+/B1) - equipment and areas, actions, guests

Activity about the movie with follow-up questions about obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

Movie As good as it gets

Topics to practice the Advanced speaking exam involving comparison, discussion and follow-up questions.

Cambridge Advanced Speaking

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

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Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

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Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

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A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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