This lesson provides an opportunity for the students to form grammatically correct questions. This lesson incorporates dialogic pedagogical approach (with the ample use of classroom talk).

• English as a second language
• Dialogic pedagogy

• Access to internet
• Whiteboard
• Google Classroom

The lesson aims to enable the students to:

• Form yes/ no questions out of a statement
• Form WH questions out of a yes/ no question

At the end of the lesson the students will be able to:

• Ask questions accurately

• Prepare (5 minutes)
  • Direct casual questions to students as a warm up activity
    • Are you ready?
    • What is the lesson today?
    • Where did we stop last week?
    • Why are you silent?
  • After students make their responses, instruct students to pay attention to the questions the teacher asked
  • Write down the elicited questions on the whiteboard and focus students’ attention towards those questions
• Present (25 minutes, while providing an opportunity for learner autonomy through dialogic pedagogy)
  • Display the elicited sentences on the whiteboard
  • Assign students to make yes/ no questions of those sentences as groups
  • After 10 minutes, instruct the steps of forming yes/ no questions by eliciting answers from the students
    • Identify the verb
    • If the verb is “BE”, position the verb before the subject in a yes/ no Question
    • If the verb is one word verb, the dummy auxiliary has to be elicited in order to position it before the subject
    • If the verb phrase has more than one word verb, take the first auxiliary and position it before the subject
  • Introduce WH question words in order to form the WH questions
    • When, where, why, who, how etc.
  • Instruct students to add WH question word prior to the yes/ no questions structure
• Practice (15 minutes)
  • Display 10 sentences on the board
  • Ask students to form yes/no questions out of them
  • Drill the yes /no questions 2-3 times
• Perform (15 minutes)
  • Instruct students to develop a TV interview (at least 10 questions using yes/ no and WH questions) with famous figure/s in the country (group work – 5-6 members) and enact it.
    • Group the students (5-6 members in a group)
    • Decide on a famous figure/s in the country that they select as the guest of their TV program
    • Based on the profile of the guest, ask students to write sentences which can be asked from the famous figure
      • If he is a movie star:
        • What is your latest movie?
        • With whom did you act in the movie….?
        • Which movie do you like most? Etc.
  • Students practice and then enact it. Each role is to be videotaped.
    • Grant 10 marks for grammatically accurate 10 questions.
  • At the end of each presentation, along with marks earned, students would be given written feedback on the errors made in the question formation and a soft copy of their role play to identify the errors

As formative assessment, instruct students to form at least 10 questions based on the poem The Snare by James Stephens (https://www.poemist.com/james-stephens/the-snare) and upload the answers to the google classroom.

Examples:

• What do you hear?
• Where is the rabbit?

To enable the students to practice question formation further, the following homework activity is assigned.

• https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/beginner-to-pre-intermediate/question-forms 
• https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/search/forming+questions