2. THE TIPS TO ASK QUESTIONS

3.2. The tips to ask questions:

In the process of teaching and learning. The teacher is the one who raises

the question and the student always wants to answer the teacher's question. Here

are some ways to ask questions that can help students understand and speak

English more easily.

The work of the teacher is to check the level of understanding of the

student. Song raises the question: "Do you understand?" Not a good question.

Because students will answer "Yes". Students sometimes respond to this because

they may not want to disappoint the teacher or show unfavorable results

for both teachers and students. So in my opinion, teachers should ask questions

that can test the understanding of the students. Here are three basic

tricks. a- Closed-Questions

In this enumeration, the teacher should ask "Yes / No questions". This

may be the easiest way for teachers to get their feedback quickly.

For example: In Reading 3, page 33 of English textbook grade 10, teacher

can ask questions to explore the level of reading comprehension of the students

with the following questions:

- Did Marie go to school in Warsaw?

- Was her dream to become a private tutor?

- Was she the first woman professor at the Sorbonne?

Example;In Writing –unit 8, page 87 of English textbook grade 10,

teacher can ask questions to lead in the new lesson:

-Have you ever found the way to somewhere?Is it difficult for you?Can

you follow the directions with a map?

Example;In Listening –unit 10, page 107 of English textbook grade 10,

teacher can ask questions to introduce the topic:

-Have you heard about the forest fires recently? In Vietnam and in other

countries,for example,in Australia?

-Do you know the reasons why they happened?

So this question form is very easy for students. By simply comparing the

words of the question to the content of the readings to answer "Yes" or No.

b- Open- Questions

Another trick in asking that question is that we use questions beginning

with: What ...? Why ...? When ...? Where ...?

As with the lesson content in the example above, we can ask:

- Where did Marie go to school?

- Why did she work as a private tutor?

- Who was the first woman professor at the

Sorbonne? c- Suggested Questions:

The question prompts the teacher to give some simple questions to guide

students to finding the answer by their own inference. Often these questions

require students to use their deductive imagination with situations. Sometimes

simple tricks when explaining to students the content of the lesson. Students

should learn to brainstorm.

Example; In part 1 Reading page 13 of English textbook grade 11 can ask

the question:

- What do you think about the friend in the poem?

- What qualities should we have to have true friendship?

With illustrated lessons you can also take pictures asking students to guess.

For example, in lesson 2 of listening on page 27 of English textbook

grade 11 might ask:

- Can you see fire?

- What's burning?

- Can you see a woman?

- What's she doing? / Who's she carring in her hands?

- Do you think they are from the burning house?

- How do they look?