Be Going To Wh Questions ESL Games, Activities & Worksheets

ESL Be Going To Wh Questions Activity - Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice In this 'be going to' Wh questions speaking activity, students practice forming, asking and answering 'be going to' Wh questions about future plans to find classmates with matching answers. First, go through the items on the worksheet and elicit the 'be going to' Wh questions the students need to ask, e.g. 'What are you going to do this evening?' Next, students answer the questions and write short answers, one to three words, in the column marked 'You'. Students then go around the class asking the questions to find classmates with the same answers. Encourage the students to answer questions by making a full sentence if possible, e.g. 'I'm going to stay home.' When a student finds someone with the same answer, the two students write each other's names in the last column and then move on to speak to someone else. When the students have finished, find out who got the most matching answers. show less

ESL Be Going To Wh Questions Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Writing and Answering Questions - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work Here is a productive 'be going to' Wh questions worksheet to help students practice forming, asking and answering 'be going to' questions with who, what, where, and when about future plans. First, students use information in a table to answer 'be going to' Wh questions. Students then write Wh questions with 'be going to' using words in brackets. Next, students use question words from a box to write 'be going to' Wh questions asking about the underlined information. After that, students complete 'be going to' Wh questions with their own ideas and answer them. Finally, students ask a classmate the questions and note down their answers. show less

ESL Be Going To Wh Questions Activity - Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts - Pair Work In this fun 'be going to' Wh questions speaking activity, students create 'be going to' Wh questions from prompts and then race to match them with suitable answers. First, students write ten 'be going' to Wh questions using question words and prompts in brackets on their worksheet. Next, students work with a partner and race other pairs to be the first to match the questions with suitable answers. Students take turns asking the questions to their partner, who listens and responds to each question using an answer from their worksheet. If the student agrees that their partner's answer matches the question, the student writes the answer and its corresponding letter in the box next to the question. If they don't think the answer matches, their partner tries again with another answer. When a pair has matched all the questions and answers, they put up their hands to have their answers checked. The first pair to finish wins. show less

ESL Be Going To Wh Questions Game - Grammar: Forming Questions from Prompts - Group Work In this engaging 'be going to' Wh questions game, students play Connect 4 by forming questions from answers. Players take turns choosing a square and making a 'be going to' Wh question from the answer in the square. For example, if the square read 'Ryan is going to eat a sandwich for lunch', the player would say 'What is Ryan going to eat for lunch?' The student acting as judge then checks the question key. If the question matches, the player marks the square with an 'O' or 'X' accordingly. It is then the other player's turn to choose a square. The first player to get four squares in a row wins the game. Afterwards, students play a second game, giving the student who acted as judge a chance to play. show less

ESL Be Going To Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, True or False, Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing, Freer Practice - Group Work In this 'be going to' true or false board game, students make 'be going to' statements from prompts and classmates ask 'be going to' Wh questions to work out whether the statements are true or false. Students take turns rolling the dice and moving their counters along the board. When a student lands on a square, they pick up a true or false card from the pile and look at it, without showing it to anyone. The student then makes a 'be going to' statement about the topic on the square, giving either true or false information as indicated on the card, e.g. 'I'm going to meet my sister after class.' The other students then ask 'be going to' Wh questions to determine if the student is lying or telling the truth, e.g. 'Where are you going to meet her?' After a few questions have been answered, the group members guess whether the student's answer is true or false. The student then reveals the answer. The group members who guessed correctly each score one point. The next student then rolls the dice, and so on. When a student reaches the finish, the game ends and the points are added up. The student with the most points wins the game. show less

ESL Be Going To Wh Questions Game - Speaking: Forming Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group Work In this fast-paced 'be going to' Wh questions game, students race to form Wh questions with 'be going to' that match specific short answers. In groups, students take turns picking up a card and reading out the answer on the card, e.g. Cereal and fruit. All the students then race to create a Wh question with 'be going to' that matches the answer. The first student to say a grammatically correct and appropriate question wins and keeps the card, e.g. 'What are you going to have for breakfast tomorrow?' If group members think a question is incorrect or a winning question is repeated, the student who asked the question is out of the round for that card, and the other students continue racing to come up with a question. The student with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner. As a variation, you can have students write down their questions before saying them. show less

ESL Be Going To Wh Questions Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Forming Questions - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work This useful be going to questions worksheet helps students practice or review a variety of Wh questions with 'be going to'. First, students use question words in a box to complete questions and then match the questions with answers. Students then match the beginnings of questions with endings using a verb from a box to complete each question. Next, students create Wh questions with 'be going to' using prompts. After that, students use verbs in a box in their 'be going to' form and subjects in brackets to complete Wh questions. Following that, students write 'be going to' Wh questions that match answers in bold. Students then write three 'be going to' Wh questions to ask a partner about their plans this evening. Finally, students ask the questions to their partner, who responds with two truthful answers and one lie. The student then tries to identify the lie each time. show less