I have been using the structure of "Quiz quiz trade" (from Cooperative Learning) all of last year in my English classes to promote informal speaking and it was a method that I liked very much since the students became more talkative and showed a great interest in each other. It is also a way of working that can be adapted to the current situation and then changed for the next class with another need.
Below an American teacher tells how she has worked with the structure with her ESL students:
Below an American teacher tells how she has worked with the structure with her ESL students:
Basically, I created a few different decks of trade cards with open-ended questions since I wanted the students to respond with their own thoughts and ideas. For me, the structure became helpful in getting the students to know each other on a deeper level and to increase the fluency when speaking. At the same time, they get to move around in the classroom and that in turn makes them more alert and "on the go".
These are some of my new quiz quiz trade cards for a course that I will be teaching this year.
These are some of my new quiz quiz trade cards for a course that I will be teaching this year.
Some other questions from last year looked like this:
