Passport Control
| Target: | Questions and answers | review role-switching speaking exercise |
| Age: | elementary aged children and up | |
| Duration: | 2-3 minutes | |
| Class Size: | any | |
| Energy Level: | low to moderate | |
| Type: | activity | |
| Equipment: | none (variation - dice) |
This activity can be used as students actually enter the room before a lesson or as part of a lesson. Students simply line up facing a chair or table which represents a counter. One student or the teacher stands at the passport control counter facing the line and asks two or three questions. The next in line answers the questions and then takes over the role of the Passport Officer and asks questions to the next in line. The activity is finished when everyone in the line has answered the questions.
NOTES:
- This activity can be used as a way of taking attendance.
- A dice can be used to randomise the number of questions asked.
- With inexperienced learners and younger children it can be useful to limit the question forms to one or two patterns.
- With large numbers of students have more than one passport control point to cut down the queuing.
- The last in line has no-one to ask questions to. If desired this student can ask the first passort control officer.
- Depending upon the number of students, number of questions and speed of answering, it can be useful to have some other activity going for those who have been through passort control. I often use What Cards.
- It's possible to use a set pattern of questions for, say a month, use a timer and record how much faster the class can get at completing the task.
