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.
You can preview the worksheets you want to use before you download them. Just click on the thumbnail to see if the worksheet is right for your class. You can also check the level the worksheet can be used for, too. You don’t have to register or subscribe to download any worksheet. All worksheets are free to download to use in your lessons, and all of them were created by ESL teachers around the world, who use them in their classrooms every day.
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This worksheet contains several pictures of all kinds of medicines for you to print and cut, I usually paste them in foami or craft foam to give more resistance and strength or the material of you ...
I prepared this Power Point lesson for my Vietnamese students who wanted a lesson in 'daily conversations'. It is a dialogue that can be used as a play or as a simple lesson on how male and femal ...
This speed dating game is an excellent starter or ice breaker. I used it with my upper intermediate/advanced classes at the start of the year as a way to get them talking. It works just like ...
This worksheet can be used to set up a role play between Lottery funding representatives and representatives of charities who want funding.Prior to this,they have been given or invent their charit ...
This is a form that students can use to evaluate their own performance in a group discussion. It can be used from pre-intermediate onwards but is best suited for intermediate and above. It would h ...
It's a simplified version of "Cluedo" board game to practise past simple and past continuous. The teacher sets the scene of the murder case and divides the students in groups. One group takes the ...
Student's role in this activity is to find someone who filled the information in the spots, by practicing the past forms of be. It can also be used as a warmer or a filler. I like it best to be do ...
Student's role in this activity is to find someone who filled the information in the spots, by practicing the regular and irregular forms of the verbs in simple past. It is useful to wrap up the s ...
Ideal for kids that want to express themselves about family likes and dislikes and wishes.Use of "going to".You may use it as a project at the end of the unit or semester because a student talks a ...
Speaking or writing about “success” is always very successful :) with teens and adults. Everybody wants to be happy, everybody wants to succeed. But what is success? Ask your ss to clo ...
Use the picture from the worksheet to make your ss think creatively and write a short essay or discuss orally “Who’s the leader in the picture?” If they find it hard to understan ...
I used an idea of a warm-up and created a list of random nouns that should give you and your students a lot of help in creative speaking activities. The list is random enough to be used in m ...
I teach adult students and they always have difficulty expressing what they want to say, no matter how advanced their vocabulary is. I downloaded short jokes from the Internet, cut them into strip ...
This is a speaking activity that I made for my teenage classes on Valentine’s Day, but you could do it anytime. It’s based on the concept of speed dating so you will need to organize t ...
This worksheet will help your students (adults) to learn to discuss different kind of questions (lifestyle, favourite things etc) . You may use it to work both in pairs or in a small group as a wa ...
Activity type: a role play based on a very old idea in which students have to act as criminals and police people. Level: Pre-intermediate and above.This is a very good review of the past simp ...
A 2 page lesson plan on the topic of "Healthy Lifestyle". Includes: reading, vocabulary, discussion questions, grammar and phrasal verbs. How to use these lesson plans: 1. Start with voc ...
These speaking cards were designed to make simple controlled conversation using regular verbs in the past for elementary students. There are two cards labelled A/B and eight questions in each card ...
We played this role-play in our class with Russian students, so I asked the students to imagine that you can spend a gap-year not only before your studies, but also after the first or second year ...
A find someone who worksheet with questions especially for teens and young adults to get to know each other (better) and to get them talking to each other. This worksheet can also be used as ...
A 2 page lesson plan on topic of "After a Vacation". Includes: reading, vocabulary, discussion questions, grammar and phrasal verbs. How to use these lesson plans: 1. Start with vocabula ...
This worksheet is quite useful for all age groups to practice introducing one self and other people . It's also a good way to start the first day of the school year in terms of having students get ...
Find someone who cards to play with students in class. Students should ask questions to their classmates and complete the information. You can use them to practice or revise past simple vs. p ...
Main focus: speaking. How: students can work in pairs or in smaller groups. Instructions:Players debate which of the things is better! Give students some time to think of good arguments. ...
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