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Keyword

• 3star
• warm-up
• listen speak
• 5min 10min
• preschool kinder primary_school middle_school high_chool adults
• ll_1 ll_2
• game
• simple questions

Question ball is a ball passing simple question asking and answering warm-up. Even adults will get some joy out of this at being able to use some simple English (not must be at beginner level).

Contents 1 Procedure 1.1 Other questions 1.2 Extension 2 Communicative demonstration

Procedure

The ball is thrown or passed between the students. The student with the ball says "My name is _____. What's your name?".

Other questions

My address is ______________. What is your address?
My telephone number is _____________. What is your telephone number?
I am a ______________. What do you do?
I am from ____________. Where are you from?
I am _________ years old. How old are you?
My birthday is __________. What is your birthday?
I am __________. Are you married or single?
My area code is ________. What is your area code?
My postcode is _________. What is your postcode?
My last name is __________. What is your last name?
My first name is ________. What is your first name?
I live in ___________. What city do you live in?

Extension

• chain the answers from you, to the person that passed you the ball and backwards. For example, "My name is _____. His name is _____. Her name is _____...."

Communicative demonstration

1. On the board, write "My name is _____. What is your name?". Make sure they know this language and practise outside of the game using any usual new language introduction you normally do.
2. Have the students form a circle.
3. Teacher has the ball and says "My name is ____. What is your name?" and gently throws or passes the ball to a student.
4. Point to the words on the board if needed and encourage him/her to say "My name is ____. What is your name?" and throw/pass to the next student.

The rest should flow by this stage.