Speaking Practice
Talking Chips
Talking chips are a great way to encourage students to speak up and practice English in class. Also, it is useful for temporarily limiting those students who talk in class quite often.
Talking chips are used during a discussion. Each student is given a chip and...
"if you want to talk, place your chip into the center of the table. you cannot talk again until everyone has placed her or her chip in the center of the table. When all the chips have been used, the chips are retrieved, and anyone can talk again if they place their chip in the center again."- Cooperative Learning by Dr. Spencer Kagan
Talking chips are used during a discussion. Each student is given a chip and...
"if you want to talk, place your chip into the center of the table. you cannot talk again until everyone has placed her or her chip in the center of the table. When all the chips have been used, the chips are retrieved, and anyone can talk again if they place their chip in the center again."- Cooperative Learning by Dr. Spencer Kagan
Describe the picture
This is a useful activity for students to apply whatever English they are familiar with. It is also a great time to introduce new vocabulary or to review recent grammar lessons.
Conversation Topics
We use the book, 50 conversation classes, for conversation inspiration and activities.
For an online sample, click here.
For an online sample, click here.
Student Presentations
Presentations are a great way to practice speaking English in front of a group and can help shy English language learners break out of their shell.
Let the student choose a topic they are very familiar with, for example, presenting their family or their foreign home.
Later, presentation topics can be more challenging. Corresponding topics with the current lesson is a great way to review and practice.
Let the student choose a topic they are very familiar with, for example, presenting their family or their foreign home.
Later, presentation topics can be more challenging. Corresponding topics with the current lesson is a great way to review and practice.
Choose an Egg- simple questions.
For this activity, the teacher will need to prepare plastic Easter eggs with a slip of paper with a simple question in English inside. Example questions can be found on the corresponding document.
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Short Skits
Say what I draw
Version of Pictionary.
- Have the teacher at the board first.
- The teacher draws a picture to represent a lesson that the class has been learning.
For example: nouns and plural nouns, jobs, or prepositions.
Note: some lessons are easier to illustrate than others, so keep this activity in mind for those lessons where you think pictures could clearly convey the lesson. - Students guess the idea of the illustration. Hints can be given.
- Then, a new student comes to the board to draw a new idea (the teacher can help with coming up with ideas!).