This kind of activity is called "milling" in some books and "find someone who" in others and unless every question on this sheet is ideal for the assembled members of your class, you really should be using your personal knowledge of the group and writing something new - tailor-made for them. By "ideal" I mean that for most questions there should be only a few class members who will answer yes and that positive answers should be distributed throughout the group.

The activity proceeds as follows. The worksheet is cut in half and one piece is given to each class member. Explain that they will try to find one class member to match each sentence and if necessary you can demonstrate using the first question. Lower level groups may like to write out the questions they are going to use in the lower half of each segment.

To encourage further conversation you can tell the students that they MUST ask one further question. To facilitate this, I often write a long list of useful Wh-question words on the whiteboard / blackboard where everone can see.

Once everything is clear, you can tell everybody to stand up and start "milling".

You have a choice of two different methods of getting this handout to your printer. It all depends on whether your computer has "Adobe Acrobat Reader" installed. If it has, then this would be the recommended method for printing out the worksheet. Try selecting the "PDF (Adobe Acrobat)" link below. If all goes well, a new application window should appear including a print button, which when selected will print out one copy.

If, on the other hand you do not have "Adobe Acrobat" select the "HTML (web page)" link below. (Also, this method is recommended for users of Netscape Navigator, which seems to have trouble interacting with the Acrobat program like this.) If all goes well, a new browser window will open, from which you can either click the "print button" on the toolbar or open the "File" menu, select "Print" and then adjust the "Print Dialog Box" to your own preferences.

The final link below is to enable you to print this "instruction page" if you want to. Click on the link, and when the page appears on a new screen you will be able to print it using the browser's "print button" or "file menu". After printing, close the window again so that you can continue to navigate around the site.

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