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Present Simple Questions Card Game

This document provides instructions for a card game activity to practice forming questions in the present simple tense. Students are given cards with question words mixed up and must work together to put them in the correct order to form seven present simple questions. The activity is intended to reinforce students' knowledge of word order and structures in present simple questions and can be used at various stages to review or introduce the topic.

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Present Simple Questions Card Game

This document provides instructions for a card game activity to practice forming questions in the present simple tense. Students are given cards with question words mixed up and must work together to put them in the correct order to form seven present simple questions. The activity is intended to reinforce students' knowledge of word order and structures in present simple questions and can be used at various stages to review or introduce the topic.

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Present Simple Questions Card Game

Level: Elementary- Pre-intermediate

Time: 10- 15 minutes

Language Focus: Present simple questions

Skills: Reading and Speaking

Cut out the words of the seven questions, mix them up and then give them to the
learners to put back in the right order. Have the learners work together in pairs or
small groups if it is a group course. Laminating the individual words will make them
much more durable. For many people, re-ordering seven questions simultaneously
will prove too much, instead you could give them the words from the questions two or
three questions at a time to reorganise.

I would recommend using this activity to review word order in present simple
questions after having already covered their structure in a previous lesson or lessons.
It could also be used, however, as a means of finding out how much knowledge of
present simple question forms learners already have, for example, at the start of a
course. This is an exercise that you could come back to time and again.

The outcomes of completing this short exercise should be:

1. Increased confidence in using present simple questions

2. Reaffirmation of auxiliary + verb structures in the present simple

3. Increased awareness of the range of present simple question forms

As you will notice, I have put active present simple questions together with one
present simple passive question, and questions using the verb to be together with
questions using other verbs. Why not present these forms as several parts of a whole
since they will all have to be used by the learners in English communication? Do not
over-complicate matters by getting too deeply into active versus passive at this stage
though, focus on the structures and word order instead.
1.Where do you work
2.What does he do
3.Where is the
company based
4.Who is your boss
5.Where are the
toilets
6.How much does it
cost
7.When does the
meeting start

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