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memorize the questions, since they will ask one another. The questions need be according 
the level the students. 
 
For example: Where are you from? 
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What´s your favorite color? 
What kind of food do you like? 
2. The students stand up in a line in front of one another. The students start to ask the 
classmates that is in front of them the memorized questions. 
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Bahia Ana 25 
Green Lasagna 
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