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Speaking

Here are a variety of activities that provide learners with the opportunity to practice fluency in speaking.

Invent a Story
An activity to give intermediated and advanced-level students practice with correct question formation.

Starting a Business
An activity to help intermediate level students practice wh-question formation in a meaningful context

What? Where? When?
An activity to pracice the use of question words.

Talking About People
An activity to practice question forms.

Agree to Disagree
A good speaking activity to practice expressing opinions.

If This is the Answer, What is the Question?
A good way to practive question formation.

Cue Cards
A fun way to have student practice giving and receiving information.

Quiz Cards
A way to practice listening and speaking using questions.

The M & M Game
A fun (and tasty) way to practice speaking and review vocabulary

Correcting Our Mistakes
A good way to practice error correction.

Give Us Some Details!
A way to practive asking and answering questions.

Picture Fun
A great way to practice there is/there are.

The Interruption Game
A good activity to use with intermediate and advanced students to practice ways of politely interrupting someone.

Draw My Room
This speaking activity helps students think about spatial relationships.

What's the Remedy?
Students share information about how they treat common ailments.

Walking Questions

This is a good speaking activity to use while you are waiting for latecomers to arrive.

Predicting Language
This is a guessing game that has learners think about what they might hear in different places. It can easily be expanded into a pre-listening activity.

The Teacher is Wrong
Learners catch you as you make deliberate mistakes in a reading passage.

Small Talk
Learners share cultural information about small talk and predict which topics are appropriate and inappropriate in the United States.

Problem-Solving
Learners gain fluency practice and may be able to help each other out with some difficulties they have faced since arriving in the United States.

And That's the News
Learners create stories based on pictures from a newspaper.

Key Word Prediction

This is a pre-reading task that helps learners make predictions about a text based on vocabulary.

Dialogue Erase
Here is a fun mechanical drill that challenges memory and encourages natural rhythm when speaking.

Important Years
Learners find out when important events happened in their classmates' lives in this speaking activity that can easily be adapted for different levels.

Retell Me a Story
Learners tell you about a text they have read using language prompts.

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