TEACHER'S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Find someone who…

Activity Type Introduction

Reading, listening and In this enjoyable worksheet activity, students ask and answer
speaking activity present simple yes/no questions with 'Do you...?' in order to find
out about their classmates' habits and routines.

Language Focus Procedure

Present simple yes/
Give each student a copy of the worksheet.
no questions with 'Do
you...?'
Go through how to construct present simple yes/no questions
Short answers with 'Do you...?' from the items on the worksheet.

Present simple 'Wh' Elicit the questions from the worksheet and go through possible
follow-up questions answers and present simple 'Wh' follow-up questions.

Examples:
Aim
Do you get up at seven o'clock in the morning?
To ask and answer
Yes, I do.
present simple yes/
What do you do after you get up?
no questions with 'Do
you...?' to find out about
Do you have a pet?
your classmates' habits
No, I don't.
and routines.
Why don't you have a pet?

Students then go around the class and ask each other the present
Preparation
simple yes/no questions.
Make one copy of the
worksheet for each When a student finds a classmate whose answer matches with an
student. item on the worksheet, the student notes down their name.

The student then asks one or two present simple 'Wh' follow-
Level up questions and writes their classmate's response in the last
column.
Pre-intermediate
Tell the students that they can only have the same name once (or
Time twice). This is to encourage them to speak to as many different
partners as possible.
25 minutes
When everyone has finished, ask students to give feedback to
the rest of the class on what they found out. If there are any
interesting findings, encourage the students to discuss them in
more detail.

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 PRESENT SIMPLE YES/NO QUESTIONS

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Find someone who…

Find someone who… Name More information

... gets up at seven o'clock in the morning.

... doesn't have a pet.

... writes emails every day.

... visits friends at the weekend.

... likes to go jogging.

... walks to class every day.

... doesn't like playing computer games.

... speaks English every day.

... listens to music in the morning.

... doesn't enjoy flying.

... goes cycling every week.

... doesn't like pizza.

... travels a lot.

... doesn't play sport.

... goes to the cinema every month.

... plays a musical instrument.

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