Which technique uses two concentric circles where the inner circle rotates to discuss with partners, facilitating grammar practice?

Which technique uses two concentric circles where the inner circle rotates to discuss with partners, facilitating grammar practice?

• A. Dynamic Discussion
• B. Jigsaw
• C. Possible Sentence
• D. Inside-Outside Circle

Answer: (D)

The technique being tested uses two circles with the inner circle rotating to meet different partners, which creates structured, repeated opportunities to use target grammar in conversation. This setup—two concentric circles where the inner circle rotates so students talk with a new partner each round—is exactly what the Inside-Outside Circle method is designed to do. It gives students steady practice with specific grammar forms by having them produce sentences, ask and answer questions, or respond to prompts with different partners, all within a guided time frame. The rotation helps students hear varied language, receive quick peer feedback, and stay engaged, while the teacher can supply sentence frames or prompts to target the grammar point and circulate to check correctness and provide brief coaching.

Dynamic Discussion, by contrast, involves flexible topics and discussion dynamics rather than a fixed circle rotation for frequent partner changes. Jigsaw is a group-work structure in which students become “experts” on parts of a text and then teach those parts to others. Possible Sentence isn’t a standard, well-defined collaborative structure like the two-circle format. So the concentric, rotating-pair setup best matches the described technique for grammar practice.