Humanising Language Teaching
Year 3; Issue 4; July 2001
Problem Questionnaire
Level: lower intermediate to advanced
- Pair the students and then ask the partners to sit across the room from
each other.
- Ask student A from each pair to bring to mind a problem they have, and that they are willing to share with their partner. They write a paragraph outlining the problem.
Ask student B to write 5-7 questions it would make sense to ask a person with a problem, whatever the problem.
- The pairs re-form and you give the students who have written questions
the questionnaire below to add to their own questions.
Tell the class that the questioning students will put their own and
task sheet questions to their partners, the ones with the problems.
Suggest that they alternate the questions you have given them and their own.
- Repeat the exercise with the A students presenting a problem they have and the
B students using the mixed questions.
- Allow time for the students to tell the whole group how they found the exercise..
Questionnaire
Specifically, what is your problem?
As you describe your problem, are you seeing it in pictures, are you hearing it, or are you feeling things about the problem?
How, exactly do you know it is a problem?
Could what faces you not be a problem in certain circumstances?
How do you know when to have this problem?
How do you know with who to have it?
What stops you from changing the problem?
