[dominicpb]

For listening practice using question tags you could use the song by The Beautiful south -´A little time´, it has good examples of question tags in there, down load the lyrics and you can do a listening gap fill activity. Then discuss the girls emotions in the song, and why she uses the tags, my students love the song! Especially the girls!

[mesmark]

Thanks for the help. I'll try them out next week I hope.

[susan53]

I usually only teach questions tags receptively until a fairly high level. If students are going to speak to native speakers they need to understand them, but they aren't really necessary productively. I find students tie themselves in so many knots and get so frustrated trying to work out what they're supposed to say that it just demotivates them. and the time could be better spent on something else. What do other people think?

[clivehawkins]

Quote susan53

I find students tie themselves in so many knots and get so frustrated trying to work out what they're supposed to say that it just demotivates them. and the time could be better spent on something else. What do other people think?

You have a very good point. It does tend to stunt fluency, even for the higher level students. For the lower levels I usually stick to 'me too' or 'I agree, disagree'.