How was your weekend brainstorming
how questions/ brainstorming in groups/ speaking about your week and weekend
Group A
Together brainstorm questions to ask people to prompt conversation when you see them again after the weekend:
Join another group. Listen to their ideas for ways to answer questions about weekends, suggest more such as ones below that they haven’t suggested, then together choose the best options. Ones which you think are not good below should still be suggested, but then eliminated at the choosing stage.
- “Didn’t do much”
- “Awful”
- “I had terrible diarrhoea”
- “I played with my friends”
- “I spent Saturday with my mistress and Sunday with my family”
- “Just went window shopping like usual”
- “Nothing special”
- “Same ole same ole”
- “Spent most of it in a casino. Do you gamble at all?”
- “Very relaxing, thank you. How was yours?”
Group B
Together brainstorm ways of replying to questions like “How was your weekend?”
Join another group. Listen to their ideas for questions about weekends, suggest more such as ones below that they haven’t suggested, then together choose the best options. Ones which you think are not good below should still be suggested, but then eliminated at the choosing stage.
- “Did you get up to anything at the weekend?”
- “Did you manage to get out of town at the weekend?”
- “Did you see the match?”
- “Nice weather at the weekend, wasn’t it?”
- “What did you do at the weekend?”
- “You didn’t… at the weekend, did you?”
- “You look hungover. Heavy weekend?”
- “You said you were going to… at the weekend. Was it any good?”
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