ESL WORKSHEET - Forming questions

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

ASKING QUESTIONS: PART 3

LinguaHouse

May 3, 2023

Level: Pre-intermediate (A2-B1)
Type of language: Business English
Tags: Business People; Vocabulary and Grammar; Exam Preparation; Article Based; Forming Questions; Future; Verb + -ing/to; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old
Publication date: 05/03/2023

This lesson focuses on asking questions using five tenses. It is aimed at students who have already studied the tenses and who want to improve their accuracy. Exercises focus on question formation, the difference between ‘going to’ and the present continuous, and students will do an information gap activity. There is also a short reading activity which looks at someone’s plans for the future. (by Joe Wilson)

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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

Business in the Future. Tom Openshaw’s plans.
Interviewer: What are you planning for your next project?
Tom: We are planning to write some computer games that students can use to learn mathematics. It’s a very exciting project because it might be really successful.
Interviewer: What are you going to do to prepare for it?
Tom: We already have a lot of schools that use our products at the moment, so we are going to talk to them about what they need and we are going to go and watch students in math lessons.
Interviewer: Where will you sell your products?
Tom: Our products should sell all over the world as we don’t have to worry about the language because numbers are the same all over the world. We are planning to have characters in our games who show the students what to do without using words. We have a lot of interest from schools in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Interviewer: Where are you going to do your market research?
Tom: To begin with, we are going to do market research in Europe because it’s closer. But we will be going to classrooms all over the world to talk to teachers and students.
Interviewer: How will you know if it is successful?
Tom: We will make a test version to begin with that we will give to schools and we will see what they say about it. If it helps the students to learn, then we know it is successful.
Interviewer: What will you be doing to prepare for the end of the project?
Tom: We will have to talk to our marketing department and make sure that we advertise our product. The most important thing is to make sure it works really well and that we have students using it as soon as possible.
Interviewer: When will you have finished?
Tom: We will have finished in two years from now. We will make sure it is ready for the beginning of the school year, but it is a difficult project and it will take time to do everything we need to do. We will be very busy.
Interviewer: What will you be doing after the project finishes?
Tom: When the project finishes, we will have started working on the next project. I don’t know what that will be yet, but I hope it will be as exciting as this project.

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