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Christmas Speaking Activity
This is a great speaking activity to develop fluency at Christmas time. Students take turns choosing a question to ask another student in their group.
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Happiness Speaking Activity
This is a fun two-part speaking activity about happiness. First, have a class discussion with the question of part one and then have students discuss the quotes of part two in pairs.
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ESL Christmas Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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ESL Christmas Speaking Activity
This is a great speaking activity is for developing fluency on the topic of Christmas.
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New Year's Speaking Activity
This is a great speaking task to develop fluency for talking about New Year's Eve, the past year, and the year to come. Have your students take turns to choose a card and ask the question to their partner/group.
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ESL Speaking Activity about Animals - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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ESL Speaking Activity about Animals
These speaking cards about animals are ideal for teen ESL students to practice speaking or can be used as class openers or finishers and even as writing prompts.
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Speaking Activity: Conversation Cards about Books - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Speaking Activity: Conversation Cards about Books
Using speaking cards is a great way to encourage conversations among ESL learners. The cards act as guides to give the students a direction in their conversations. Below you will find conversation cards about books and reading for your ESL classroom.
Conversation Cards about Books
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1. What is the best book you have read recently? What is it about? Why did you like it?
Possible answer: I recently finished reading the first book of the Outlander series. It's a fantastic book about an English woman from 1945 who travels back in time to Scotland in 1745. The story is very compelling and the characters'... [Read more]
This is Me - Writing and Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is Me - Writing and Speaking Activity
This is a fun multi-purpose worksheet to practice writing and speaking skills.
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This is Tony - Writing and Speaking Activity
This is a fun multi-purpose worksheet to practice writing and speaking skills in the third person.
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This is My Best Friend - Writing and Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is My Best Friend - Writing and Speaking Activity
This is a fun multi-purpose worksheet to practice writing and speaking skills about a student's best friend.
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Let's Talk about Christmas
This is a fun speaking activity that is great for developing fluency on the topic of Christmas.
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Productive and Receptive Skills - Speaking Activities - TEFL Blog
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 Federico Riva
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Productive and Receptive Skills - Speaking Activities
In this blog post, we will consider three different categories of speaking activity. For each we look at where each individual type is used and then look at some general ideas for delivering any of the three types of activity.
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Speaking activities will come in many different forms but we can generalize them into three basic types.
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How Observant are you? What can you see? Picture Description
This is a great activity to practice speaking skills, grammar patterns, prepositions and even writing skills. Super versatile!
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Halloween Would You Rather
This is a fun speaking activity where students discuss which of these spooky things they would rather do. Choose carefully.
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What do they like
This is a fun practice on hobbies and Present Simple. Once the activity is completed, it can be used for speaking purposes.
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Talk for 1 Minute About Sport - Speaking Cards
These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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How Technology Has Changed Our Lives
This is a productive activity for speaking and writing skills, based on cartoons that express through humorous pictures how technology has changed our lives.
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Present Simple vs. Present Continuous Game
This is a guided speaking activity where students talk about routines or things happening right now. The pictures and sentences help them to use the correct tense.
It takes about 45 minutes if students talk about every picture. Put students in pairs of 2 - 4. Use counters.
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Productive and Receptive Skills in the ESL Classroom - Speaking Skills - Activate Phase
The final stage of the lesson will be the activate and the activate phase is going to form the main speaking activity within the lesson. So, it's very very important that here, we do a good demonstration of what it is that we're expecting them to do, that we elicit the type of target language we're expecting them to produce from the activity. So, one way we could go around it is to, firstly, form pairs. Each pair is going to be given a card and onto that card they're going to write the country and a month. What the teacher can then do, just to add a little bit of spice to it, is to collect all of the cards and shuffle them around and then redistribute them to the pairs so that they get a card... [Read more]
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Let's Talk: Daily Activities
This is a great speaking activity to talk about daily activities. Your students roll the die twice to find a question to talk about. The first roll determines the number on the top and the second roll determines the number on the left.
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Productive and Receptive Skills in the ESL Classroom - Speaking Activities
So speaking activities will come in many different forms but we can generalize them into three basic types. Control activities tend to be used in the study phase and here, the teacher will be helping the students in terms of what they need to say and how they go about saying it. So, there's a high level of structure within a controlled activity. A guided activity has slightly less structure than this and it can be used in either the study or the activate stages themselves. The final type of activity or class of activity is called creative activity and this one would be used in the activation phase. In a creative activity, we're giving a scenario or a very small amount of structure and we're asking the... [Read more]
A Comprehensive Lesson Plan for Intermediate ESL Students in a 1-Hour Class - TEFL Blog
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 Federico Riva
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A Comprehensive Lesson Plan for Intermediate ESL Students in a 1-Hour Class
Effective communication is a crucial skill for ESL learners, and developing strong speaking abilities is a key aspect of language acquisition. In this blog post, we will explore a comprehensive lesson plan designed specifically for intermediate ESL students. This one-hour class aims to equip learners with the necessary tools to enhance their speaking skills, fostering confidence and fluency. Let's dive into the details!
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Part 1: Warm-Up and Introduction (10 minutes)
Part 2: Vocabulary and Language Review and Speaking Practice Task (25 minutes)
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5 Communicative ESL Speaking Activities Your Students Will Love - TEFL Blog
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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5 Communicative ESL Speaking Activities Your Students Will Love
Speaking activities are essential for English learning as they give a chance to learn new linguistic points, including grammar and real-life listening skills.
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Speaking Cards
Collaborative Discussion
Interview
Giving Directions
Speaking Boardgame
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Productive Skills - TEFL Blog
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Productive Skills
The productive skills are Speaking and Writing, They are also known as active skills. While speaking and writing are substantially different in many ways, they both are used for the same purpose to communicate.In many ways writing is the more difficult skills, requiring a greater degree of accuracy. When speaking, any misunderstandings can be cleared 'up on the spot', Whereas this is not possible in writing.
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Speaking activities in the classroom
1) Controlled activities:
2) Guided activities:
3) Creative communication:
4) Hand Writing:
5) Spelling:
6) Encouraging students to speak:
Techniques to encourage interaction:
Guidelines for creative speaking activity:
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Reasons Why Teaching Productive Skills is The Cornerstone of Communication - TEFL Blog
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Reasons Why Teaching Productive Skills is The Cornerstone of Communication
For this Summative Task, I will be discussing the topic of teaching productive skills in the classroom. As opposed to receptive skills learned previously (reading and listening), productive skills focus on speaking and writing. Regarding writing, this function of language education is often the most neglected in the TEFL world, due firstly, to the fact that teachers and students don't want to monopolize class time with quiet individually driven work. Writing skills are mostly practiced in the form of homework which can often be neglected and completed without necessary focus and effort. Concerning speaking, this function requires a higher deal of language... [Read more]
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Productive and Receptive Skills in the ESL Classroom - Speaking Skills - Before the Lesson
For the lesson that even takes place, there are a number of things that you need to have considered. Obviously, you need a very clear idea of what it is you're expecting the students to have to do and they need to know why. It's very important before you ask them to do an activity that they have an understanding of the purpose of that activity. You should, secondly, have had a thought about what they already know. Linked to that is, will it be necessary to do any form of pre-teaching before I can expect them to do this activity and finally, we need to make sure that we have prepared all our materials and our instructions for this particular activity. So, we'll consider a straight arrow ESA... [Read more]
The Teacher Who Talks Less is on Their Way to Success - TEFL Blog
Fri, 14 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Teacher Who Talks Less is on Their Way to Success
The more a teacher speaks the less attention the learners will pay. Decreasing teacher speaking time can be done with a few practical steps and wonderful teaching methods. It all starts with proper planning. When designing a lesson plan be sure to include assignments and activities that will engage your students and do not call for a teacher dominant role.
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Classroom activities
Eliciting
Additional materials
Revision methods
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Future Perfect Speaking Cards
Here are some great printable speaking cards aimed to practice the usage of the future perfect tense in speaking.
Have your students work in pairs or teams. Have them take a card and interview each other on the given questions. This activity is aimed to practice the usage of the future perfect tense in speaking.
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Top Tips for Decreasing Teacher Speaking Time - TEFL Blog
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Top Tips for Decreasing Teacher Speaking Time
Imagine a classroom where the teacher is lecturing the entire class time. Student's attention span starts to flee, they begin looking for any source of entertainment. They are now distracted and unable to apply the lesson the teacher is demonstrating in the real world. Teacher lecture time should be supplemented with other methods of teaching. Students need mental breaks and activities to engage them in the lesson.
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Reasons to Decrease TTT
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5 Factors Influencing The Choice of Activities for Students With Shorter Attention Spans - TEFL Blog
Wed, 05 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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5 Factors Influencing The Choice of Activities for Students With Shorter Attention Spans
First of all, I notice that adults have a bigger focus on what the teacher is saying and doing during the lesson, than the kids or teenagers. It is because, in my opinion, adults realize why they need to study English. For example, they will be able to find a better job or they may get an enhancement. So they know it is one of the important goals for them for a particular period of their life. And speaking about kids, they are too young first of all. They do not have a clue what is a goal and why they need it. The only thing they know is that their parents want them to study well, but it's not enough in a lot of cases. And sometimes the kids... [Read more]
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Passive Voice Speaking Cards
This is a set of 8 printable cards with questions to practice the passive voice.
Have your students work in parks or groups and interview each other. This activity aims to improve your students' speaking skills and their use of grammar.
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