Spice up your teaching with "Would you rather...?" questions
Hi there! 👨🏻🏫 This post is a bit different from the other ones in that I'm not sharing a lesson plan this time, but instead I'm sharing a tip that I've been using for a while now. I guess I'm not the only teacher who sometimes dreads the blandness of most published materials available on the market. I understand that this sometimes has to do with the fact that there's a very specific language goal to meet, so the "interestingness" factor is brushed aside in favor of practice activities specifically designed with a particular linguistic objective in mind. However, I also understand that for students (and teachers alike!) this might feel overly tedious at times. To counter this problem, I've been using "Would you rather do (A) or (B)?" questions with students. Keep reading to learn more about how I've been integrating these questions into my classes. What? "Would you rather...?" questions are, simply put, questions that force
