- Discussing types of question and how and when they should be used
- Role-playing using questions in different ways in various contexts
- Listening to interactions and analysing the type of questions used
Note: This lesson is partly based on the text, Types of Question. It is recommended that learners keep that page open in another tab.
1. Think and speak:
a. How far do you agree with the following statements?
- (i) Good students answer a lot of questions, but the best students ask a lot of questions.
- (ii) If someone asks you a question, it’s always rude not to answer it.
- (iii) When getting to know someone, it’s better to share facts about yourself and wait for the other person to share too, rather than asking questions which they may find invasive.
- (iv) There are no unanswerable questions in science and philosophy; there are only questions to which the answer is not yet known.
- (v) Questions can be dishonest, just as answers can.
b. Brainstorm and discuss:
- What different types of question can you think of?
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