Sample II-8: Beginning Level Language Use Inventory

Purpose: To practice thinking, writing, and speaking English by answering simple questions.

Process: Give this form to the students. Display the handout on an overhead transparency. As a large group activity, walk through the handout, offering suggestions and asking for examples from the students. Have students work on their handout individually, then have them get into pairs and work on interviewing each other.

Answer for YOU

  To whom did you speak? What did you say? Was it easy?
Difficult?
At home?
 		      
At work?
 		      
At the
store?		      
Another
place?		      

Now ask your PARTNER

  To whom did you speak? What did you say? Was it easy?
Difficult?
At home?
 		      
At work?
 		      
At the
store?		      
Another
place?		      

(Adapted from Marshall, 2002. Used with permission.)