Thank you, Fergus. Understanding CCQs will help a lot in language analysis. Watching your videos helped me a lot while I was doing the CELTA course.

Thanks, really great! Easy to follow.

Hi Fergus! first of all, thank you for this great content that you are sharing, I'm making the most of it since I am currently taking the CELTA course. Concerning your question on how we use CCQs, I'm thinking they are more suitable if it is a grammar lesson. If it is a vocabulary lesson for instance, I would opt for pictures or mimic the word if it can be mimicked. Those are my three ways of making sure the students understand a certain thing. However, I assume that there might be some other ways that are suitable for different focuses. So if there are any, would you kindly make a video about that? Thank you.

Hi, Fergus and thank you for all you do for us ! I have a question regarding teaching the second conditional. some students find it hard to spot if we're talking about the future or present. It's our job to guide them, which is why I always try to make my ccq's highly effective. can you please see if these will do? sentence : If I had the money, I would go on a round-the-world cruise. - Is this situation imaginary or real? Imaginary - Does he have the money now? No - Are we talking about the future or present? Present meaning problem : a lot of students will say future. One way to go about this is to ask extra ccq's ( i'm not sure if they're good enough) 1- did speaker say ' If I will have the money' ? No 2- does speaker mean if he has the money now? Yes Or have two parallel examples written on the board, one for present and the other for future : 'If i had the money, I'd....' 'If i won the money, I'd...' ask one ccq for the second to show future intent : does the act of winning happens now or in the future? future - Is the speaker certain that he'd go on a cruise if he had money? Yes