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DMPT · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 71

Hey,

Anybody know of a good resource for getting lists of conversation questions broken up into different topics? besides http://iteslj.org/questions/

Thanks.

saint57 · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject:

That list saved my life in Korea.

chinaamber · Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 73 Location: Guiyang

http://www.esljunction.com/conversation_questions/index.html

This one is not nearly as good as the iteslj one though.

ilaria · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 88 Location: Sicily

www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/conv.htm (scroll down). Less choice of topics than iteslj and some overlap, but good topics and questions nonetheless.

I find Yahoo Answers to be a good source of questions. I make the students write their answer in pairs and then vote for the class's best answer. Then they can compare their answers with the ones online. It's a good conversation class activity, but also it makes good preparation for a full essay/composition writing task - it helps the class brainstorm ideas and activates their knowledge of a topic. They can also post their answers online if they want and if their answers are good.

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

A bit hard to get students to engage in conversations if they don't know some basic phrases and expressions for various situations. Try www.eslgold.net/speaking/phrases.html