Learning to speak a new language is definitely a challenge. It’s very difficult for your students to do if they don’t practice on a regular basis. Luckily, you need to look no further because BusyTeacher.org has the tools to help your students practice their speaking - and want to do it, too! Let’s face it, students aren’t always jumping for joy at the opportunity to speak a language they aren’t 100 percent comfortable with. Students can be hesitant to speak for a wide variety of reasons - fear of mistakes, peer pressure, or lack of self-confidence are some of the main factors. BusyTeacher.org has 936 speaking worksheets to help you plan effective speaking lessons, which will get your students to break through their shyness and start talking!
These worksheets are great to use for your lessons because they come in many different styles and formats. Some include flashcards, PowerPoint presentations, and games that you can include in your lesson and help your students increase their speaking ability with interesting, educational, and fun activities. Many of our speaking worksheets can be used in a variety of different ways. Some can be used to inspire topics of discussion, enabling you to hold an open forum with your students, so they can express their ideas. Some are grammar and vocabulary-ased, and can help your students learn new words while using grammar points. Some are games that spark creativity and activity in the classroom - for example, some worksheets are for mingling activities, where students walk around and have to speak about something with others – for example, about their hobbies. Other worksheets are for role play, and get students to take on the roles of an employer and an interviewee. Some worksheets aren’t for every level - some are specifically for kids, some for teenagers, and some for adults.
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This worksheet is a set of questions for adult beginners. The material has carefully and painstakingly been selected to stimulate interest and willingness to talk. It has successfully been used wi ...
It is a collection of questions that will encourage senior class students to practice speaking. Tell me about for seniors is a fun activity for senior class students. The questions and the accompa ...
It is very important to distinguish between countable and uncountable nouns in English because of the many grammar rules implied. Before you start teaching quantifiers, you could try this workshee ...
The worksheet contains situations like “You’ve bought a dog.” Each student gets a situation and doesn’t show it to the others. The task is to make a riddle using the phrase ...
One of my favourite speaking activities, for teenagers and adults. Over the top, incredible situations (i.e: I saw you in your pyjamas on the roof, or walking a monkey in the park) ; students have ...
This is a typical "Find someone who" activity (seventeen tasks to find someone who has a dog, been to Cusco, won a prize, , focusing on present and past, "to have" as auxialliary verb and for desc ...
Presentation in Power point on international travel. Introduces new vocabulary and discussion questions as well as short assignments. New vocabulary is introduced at the beginning comprised main ...
Boosting the speaking and writing skills of pre-intermediate learners by means of comic created online and a strip story. The learners are invited to brainstorm in pairs ideas about the first cart ...
The activity is called "Let's get to know each other better" and focuses on making questions in different tenses up to present perfect and writing down one's partner's answer in the correct tense ...
This is a worksheet that students need to keep with them while reading a non-fiction book in order to prepare their oral presentation. When reading one of the books from the series http://www.barn ...
This worksheet is used in my video class. My students enjoy it so much. The first activity is to warm them up with vocabulary about relationship. The second activity is speaking activity. I ask th ...
Starting from the legend of Romulus and Remus, this exercise allows students to revise the use of subject and object pronouns. It offers a drama activity first and then goes back to grammar with t ...
This worksheet contains different phrases for giving advice and short role play situations for using them while talking about Healthy Lifestyle. Divide the ss into 2 groups. Cut out the situations ...
A famous game “Would You Rather?” can be great fun as a warmer or filler at almost any lesson. Cut the cards into a pile, divide your Ss into small groups and ask them to take one piec ...
Who is the criminal? An engaging jigsaw reading comprehension mystery. It is an excellent role play reading best for upper-high intermediate who find working in groups an enjoyable activity. The i ...
Any kind of “Alibi” game is perfect for practicing past tenses (esp past simple and past continuous). Make up any story that something was stolen at the party at 10 pm last night. You ...
I use this worksheet to help my students practise telling stories in the past. They have to imagine that something quite unusual has happened to them (they've met a ghost/an alien; won a lottery e ...
This worksheet is loosely based on Agatha Cristie's "The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge". The aim of the discussion is to find out who the murderer is. There are six suspects and three detectives, thou ...
This is the game of taboo but in a ppt form. I usually use the projector in class when playing this game. A student doesn't look at the screen and the others have to describe what's on it without ...
A warmer activity. Learners go around the class asking each other about their different preferences. Works well with adult ESOL learners at E1 and E2 level as well as with children of up to Y4 or ...
This pairwork worksheet uses everyday activities to practice the contrast between present simple and present continuous. This very structured practice is best used with elementary and pre-intermed ...
This is a great sample worksheet for the discussion method "World Café". I used it to introduce 11th graders (16-17 years old) to the topic and activate previous knowledge. After the discus ...
Write more questions, answer them yourself, then interview three other classmates. Make sure all of the questions are about time. it can be used with upper grade students specially with grade ...
This is a great competitive activity to test your students’ knowledge of famous movie quotes. Students team up, choose the films from a list, read an incomplete phrase and try to guess the c ...
This worksheet is for elementary to pre-intermeidate teenagers or adults practising past simple questions and answers, asking follow up questions and finding students in the class with the same an ...
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