LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: ★★★★★
Last but not least, role playing is to secure the knowledge of Primary 5 and 6 ESL of embedded questions.
- Students are divided into groups, at least 3 people in a group
- Each group comes up with a play, around 5 to 10 minutes
- With as many embedded questions included in their scripts as possible
- Peers vote between each other’s performance
- The winning performance are based on the number of embedded questions used and how good the play is
How does it work?
It is a way for teachers to see if the students have grasped the idea of how to accurately use it. Not to mention, it is a fun, engaging and efficient way to learn embedded questions. This approach allows the teachers to spot the mistakes made by the students immediately through their dialogues during their performances. Other students will count the number of embedded questions appeared in the play as well, which can successfully have their full attention throughout each play.
What makes it a better approach?
Role playing is one of the best ways for teachers to evaluate students and for students to reflect on themselves and on one another. (Kilgour, Reynaud, Northcote, & Shields, 2015).As for a play that students have to perform in front of their classmates, and be determined whether they are the winning teams, it makes the preparation more intense and in that way, they will try to make as little mistakes as possible.
Teaching Embedded Questions 