Friday, March 23, 2012

ESL Discussion Questions about the Senses

Senses


What are the five senses? Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, and Touch.

What are the verbs associated with each sense? See, Hear, Taste, Smell and Touch.

What body parts are associated with each sense?

What do you like to see?

What do you like to hear?

What do you like to taste?

What do you like to smell?

What do you like to touch?

(*What do you hate to _________?)

What is the sixth sense? Intuition

What is your favourite sense?

Which sense gives us the most pleasure?

If you had to lose one sense which sense would you lose?

If you had to have only one sense which would you have?

What is common sense?

What do you think it means to have your senses overwhelmed?

Can you feel someone is close to you without seeing, smelling, touching and hearing them?

Do animals have senses that we don't have? Which animals are associated with each particular sense?


Ways of expressing our senses:

It feels like___________.



Expressions using the word "Sense"

Nonsense

out of one's senses

bring (one) to one's senses

have more luck than sense

horse sense (common sense)

In a sense (in a way)

knock some sense into

make sense

make sense out of something

sense of humour

take leave of one's senses


Idioms of the Senses

I see the light. Seeing is believing. I see something coming.

I smell a rat. to come up smelling like roses.

To get in touch. To stay in touch To be out of touch. Not touch with a ten foot pole

There's no accounting for taste. To have different taste. To be in bad taste.

So quiet, you can hear a pin drop. I hear you!


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