Why I Love Winter. Speaking Practice

Speaking prompts about winter: what you like about the season, what you do in the snow, whether you would rather have summer. Short questions with time to answer aloud.

Opinion questions with a built-in answer are the easiest way into speaking at low levels: the prompt supplies the position, the student supplies the reasons. Why winter, what you do in the snow, what you would miss if it never came.

The structure worth drilling is because. I love winter because we go sledging is twice the sentence of I love winter, and it is the difference between a one-word answer and a conversation. Give thinking time before the first answer – silence at that point produces better English than being hurried.