20 Questions from the Proust Questionnaire

High School Year 3 (Lesson 1)

Teacher’s notes and lesson plan

Give out the lesson plan and pre-teach any difficult vocab with your students. The objective is to get students talking about themselves and each other. Print out the lesson plan and go through it in class. Or, split the class into pairs, swap pairs, then have people report back to the class. Giving people the chance to practice in pairs before reporting to the class builds confidence to speak publicly. Split the class into pairs to do the final three questions as a speaking exercise, then get the pairs to report back to the class. You might find 20 questions are too many, if so, pick out a few to do and assign the rest or writing section as homework. Do what works to keep things moving at a fast pace.

Worksheet

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Reproduced with permission from the textbook Tower Talk Topics 3, available here.