TEACHER'S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Personal Information Dominoes

Activity Type Introduction

Reading, matching, In this dominoes game, students form, ask and answer personal
listening and speaking information questions.
activity, group work
Procedure
Language Focus Divide the students into groups of three or four.
Personal information
Give each group a set of dominoes.
questions
Ask the students to shuffle the dominoes and deal out five each,
leaving the rest in a pile face down.
Aim
To form, ask and answer Tell the students to turn over the top domino from the pile and
personal information place it face up on the table.
questions.
The first player tries to make a personal information question by
placing a domino down either before or after the domino on the
Preparation table.
Make one copy of the
If the player can form a grammatically correct and logical question,
dominoes for each group
they ask the question to the next player.
of three or four and cut
as indicated.
If the next player answers correctly, it is their turn to put down
one of their dominoes at either end of the domino chain and ask
Level a question to the next player.

Pre-intermediate If a player fails to answer a question correctly, they miss a turn

and the question passes to the next player to try to answer.

Time If a player cannot put down one of their dominoes, they take a
25 minutes domino from the top of the pile and put it down if they can.

If there are no dominoes left in the pile, play passes to the next
student.

The first player to get rid of all their dominoes wins. However, the
game continues until all the cards have been used or game play
has been exhausted.

Afterwards, the students can reshuffle the dominoes and play

again.

The correct answers can be seen on the uncut worksheet.

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 ASKING FOR AND GIVING PERSONAL INFORMATION

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Personal Information Dominoes

your is your you spell

What How do Do you
hobbies? name? your name?

have a Where do your

come from? What is How old
nickname? you nationality?

your
are you? When is Where were you born? Are you
birthday?

single or Do you have boyfriend/ What is your

name? How many
married? a girlfriend? partner's

brothers and
in a house or
sisters have Where do you live? Do you live Who do you
apartment?
you got?

What is your What is your

live with? address? number? What do
email phone

How many do you

you do? Where do you work? Why do you
languages speak?

want to learn got any What do you in your free

Have you What are
English? pets? do time?

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