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Ask Personal Questions – Worksheet 1

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a) Print the 4 female profile pages, 4 male profile pages, and the question sheet.b) Give one profile to each student, or share the profiles evenly if there are more or less than 8

people in the group.c) Using the suggested questions on the question sheet to help them, students ask each other

questions about the person on their profile, in order to answer the questions below. Theyshould not read each other’s profile pages!

d) Extension activity 1: students devise short role plays using the characters from the profilesand exploring them within a given situation, e.g. “You’re in a bus shelter, the bus is 10 minuteslate, it’s raining and someone starts smoking…” etc.

e) Extension activity 2: let students spend time in groups reading the information about the 8different people, then take away the information and ask them the questions below in a teammemory quiz.

1. Write the full name of each person.

2. How many people are divorced?

3. Who is married to Rod?

4. Which people have at least one sister?

5. How many people are retired?

6. How many people enjoy writing letters?

7. Whose favourite television programme is Newsnight?

8. Who lives in a flat on Ferrers Way?

9. How many people have been on holiday recently?

10. Who is a student?

11. Which people have no brothers or sisters?

12. Who recently spent a week in Portugal?

13. Who is thirty-five years old?

14. Who works in a bank?

15. Whose favourite television programme is Strictly Come Dancing?

16. Who lives at 49 Moon Gardens?

17. How many people have children?

18. Who has the most children?

19. How many people are single?

20. How many people are married?

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Ask Personal Questions – Worksheet 1

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Answers:

1. Helen Burnley, Sally Jones, Brenda Holmes, Shareena Berkeley, Mike Peterson,Derek Watkins, Seth Greensleaves and Charles Fortune.

2. One – Charles.

3. Shareena.

4. Sally, Shareena, Derek and Charles.

5. Two – Seth and Brenda.

6. Two – Seth and Brenda.

7. Charles.

8. Sally.

9. Five – Mike, Seth, Charles, Sally and Shareena.

10. Shareena.

11. Helen and Seth.

12. Sally.

13. Mike.

14. Charles.

15. Brenda.

16. Derek.

17. Six – Mike, Derek, Seth, Charles, Brenda and Shareena.

18. Seth – he has four.

19. Four – Mike, Charles, Sally and Brenda.

20. Four – Derek, Seth, Helen and Shareena.