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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It is a speaking skill test assessment form. Busy teachers can use it readily. Assessment criteria are specified in details. ESL tests such as PET , FCE have 4 sessions : speaking skills, listenin ...
The worksheets have cue cards with prompts to talk about different topics. They can be used as FCE Speaking Test practice exercises. Cut the cue cards, and give each student a card each. Then, let ...
In classroom students can be divided into two groups: group A men ,and group B women ,and the teacher starts asking them questions. It is basically a role-play ,or a debate between two different p ...
Based on a find-someone-who mingling activity this game will be of great interest for learners of elementary levels. By asking personal questions related to age, place of living, job, marita ...
It's a role play activity, a telephone conversation and a follow up activity. The learners can be paired at random or they can choose their partners. The follow up activity allows the learners som ...
This is a handout based on the teaching of pragmatics. Studying pragmatics offers a learner a real insight into how language is connected with culture. This particular handout, which is based on p ...
This role-play is made up for students of the elementary level. Divide your class into groups of three and distribute the cards among them. The task is to make up a dialog introducing a newcomer t ...
Students imagine that they are at a party. By means of cards they have a new identity. Questions help them to be confident while having conversations. Their new images are funny and I'm sure stude ...
This is a business telephone role-play with eight situations where one of the students will have to act as a business client and another one a secretary. For this task students need to know the vo ...
Adapt the worksheet to reflect yourself and then allow ss to complete their own form of the worksheet. Ss can then compare how much they know about thier teacher and themselves. Further discussion ...
In this activity you will find a set of pictures with animals and cards that together constitute an exciting game ‘Find an Animal’. At first you assign an animal or bird to be found th ...
This is a speaking activity that might be used as a warm-up where students will have to discuss how men, women, computers, cars, clothes and houses look like in future. At first everyone is given ...
Here you can find two pages of questions for speaking activity in your class, to discuss how people ask for help and what their reactions are in everyday situations. There is a short text as an in ...
The pair role-plays introduced in this handout will provide students with five problematic situations that they will have to sort out by talking to each other. All the role-plays present an awkwar ...
This activity includes a "Top 10 movie characters of the 2000’s" (such as Jack Sparrow, Harry Potter and Wolverine). It contains an exercise to match them to their famous sentences, as well ...
The pair role-plays presented in this handout will provide students with six problematic situations that they will have to sort out by giving advice and recommendations. All of the role-play ...
The objective here is all round language acquisition, incorporating the 3 linguistic skills of listening, speaking, and reading. It lasts for 1 hour and 20 minutes and is meant for young learners ...
This lesson is usually one of my favourites. I start off by discussing the apocalypse and eliciting some vocab such as doomsday and etc. Then I get them into the story by diving them into 3 groups ...
A listening activity on Bad Habits. It's a very nice exercise (you can download the audio here: http://listenaminute.com/b/bad_habits.html ), which includes a matching vocabulary exercise, the tra ...
This is a great back to school ice breaker activity! Each child gets a copy of the Ice Cream Social printable. They must each ask eight classmates their name and favorite ice cream flavor and fill ...
They are flash cards for speaking activities. It can be used with a group or as pair work. The student is to describe what they see in the pictures in the flash card to the rest of the group until ...
This is a reading and speaking activity. It is engaging and makes students think actively specially the ones at school leaving stage who have a lot of things on their minds. The students read by ...
This is a set of 15 flashcards which you can use as a warm up activity at your lesson. There is a picture and the task on each card. For example, name 5 things that irritate you.. My adult stud ...
This role play represents an interview between a celebrity and a journalist. Apart from students’ worksheets it is also supplied with 6 short biographies of famous people from Wikipedia that ...
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