understanding "why" questions
Develop critical reading skills
- Pick an article on
BBC newsound. If it's a long article, you don't have to use all of it.
- Read the article
- Make five questions about the article for a classmate - 15 mins
- Use "why" questions, not yes/no/one word answer questions:
- do ask: Why did the queen have to be evacuated?
- don't ask: what type of helicopter was the queen evacuated with?
- Ready? exchanging pairs are in teams chat, send (or share with) the questions (including link to article) to that person.
- Answer the questions in the document. Send back to your filled out document - 8 mins
- Give feedback to your classmate, where could they find the right answer - 7 mins
- Hand in the document in teams