These tag question activities help students practise forming and using question tags in a natural and communicative way. Most activities are speaking-based and designed to encourage confirmation, clarification, and a bit of fun in the classroom.
Confirm What You Already Know
Tag questions are usually used to confirm something we think we already know. For example:
Manuel, you have a dog, don’t you?
You’ve been to Italy, haven’t you?
Go around the class and ask students to make similar confirmation questions about classmates. Keep it relaxed and spontaneous.
To gamify it, give each student two or three “lives.” If their tag question gets a “No, actually…” response, they lose a life. The last student with lives remaining is the winner.
Find Someone Who – Using Tag Questions
Try this printable Find Someone Who worksheet designed specifically for practising tag questions.
Before starting, review how tag questions work (positive sentence → negative tag, and vice versa), then go over a couple of example questions with the class.
You play an instrument, don’t you?
You don’t like spicy food, do you?
Students then circulate to find classmates who match the prompts, using tag questions to check. Encourage a short follow-up conversation once they find a match.
Question Tag Board Game
Here is a fun and challenging tag question board game. Small groups of students use a dice to move their counter around the board. Each time they land on a tag question, they have to frame a question ending in that particular tag.
For more of these activities see the board games page.
Mixed Tag Questions Race
Hand out this tag questions exercise to pairs of students and give them a time limit of five minutes and then check the answers.
Online Tag Questions Exercises and Games
You can find online tag question exercises and activities at our online-focused site LearnHip.com.
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