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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.

Do you have a worksheet, PowerPoint presentation, or game that you use in your classroom, and works like a charm every time? Why not share the love? Upload it to BusyTeacher.org by clicking “Submit a worksheet” below, and let ESL teachers everywhere use it in their lessons as well! Along the way, you'll become a valuable BusyTeacher.org contributor! Bookmark us today to use as your main online resource for worksheets you can use in your lessons. With 936 speaking worksheets to choose from, you’ll find whatever you need to make your lessons more enjoyable. Check out the latest worksheets below and download one to use in your lesson today!

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In Your FACEbook

In Your FACEbook

Activity inspired by the new segment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. There are some funny status and comments posted on Facebook, which are all real, and an exercise with the vocabulary used. There a ...
25 Views 19,137 Pre-IntInt
Mass Media

Mass Media

ESL reading comprehension activity about kinds of advertising. Provides vocabulary related to mass media. Students can use the texts for a variety of activities such as writing questions, paraphra ...
14 Views 35,352 Int
Movie Worksheet: Take a Seat, Make a Friend

Movie Worksheet: Take a Seat, Make a Friend

I came across this wonderful video and decided to create this class with the clip. You might get your students to seat in an outside area and pretend they are in a ball pit so they can ask t ...
20 Views 17,751 Pre-IntIntAdv
Have You Ever...?

Have You Ever...?

Teaching grammar through speaking is one of the most difficult things to do for a teacher. With this worksheet you will be able to help your students use time adverbs such as already/yet/since/ago ...
19 Views 19,377 IntAdvExam
Speaking Activity Flash/Cue Card - Intermediate

Speaking Activity Flash/Cue Card - Intermediate

This exercise can be used as a warm-up speaking activity for an intermediate level. If the class size is small, this activity can be used as the whole class activity. Give a card to each student a ...
24 Views 32,857 Pre-IntInt
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What Would You Like to Order? - Order Pad

What Would You Like to Order? - Order Pad

This is an exercise which accompanies the restaurant menu from the worksheet "What Would You Like to Order?" While role playing,one student places the order,the other one is writing it down.& ...
10 Views 29,021 BegElemPre-IntInt
What Would You Like to Order?

What Would You Like to Order?

Variety of items to choose from the menu created for improvement of students' speaking skills. Excellent to practice modals and food while role playing the restaurant scene. One student ...
21 Views 53,160 BegElemPre-Int
Find Someone Who

Find Someone Who

This worksheet can be used as an ice breaker at the begining of a course or also as a fun warmer for the class. Students will walk around asking questions to their classmates and looking for affir ...
9 Views 21,526 All
Information Gap: How Often Do They...

Information Gap: How Often Do They...

A large information gap comprising 7 worksheets and a master sheet. Students will have to mingle and ask several other students to complete the information for each person or couple on the sheet. ...
15 Views 17,356 Elem
Mysterious Celebrity

Mysterious Celebrity

This is a great gap-fill exercise to practice asking and answering questions in Past Simple for elementary students. This activity can involve up to 8 people with the aim to collect all the inform ...
10 Views 17,233 BegElem
Role PLay Charades

Role PLay Charades

Role Play Charades is a game for teacher professional development designed to review with teachers the most important reasons to employ role plays in their class. Teachers read one card, then att ...
11 Views 34,656 All
Chit-Chat

Chit-Chat

This worksheet can be used to enhance vocabulary related to common subjects such as music, cinema, sport, etc. It includes a section for Phrasal Verbs, which students usually find challenging, and ...
12 Views 17,240 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Movie Worksheet: Funny Discipline PPT+ Short Video

Movie Worksheet: Funny Discipline PPT+ Short Video

This is a PPT based on the topic of discipline and a 2 minute funny video called “Seven ways to discipline your child”. The PPT includes two questions about the video and types of disc ...
9 Views 27,655 Int
Would You Rather - PPT

Would You Rather - PPT

This is a PPT version of the Would You Rather speaking game. It is aimed at teens with a mixture of funny and serious questions. Don't forget to encourage the students to explain their preferences ...
75 Views 83,920 Int
Movie Worksheet: Contamination Scare

Movie Worksheet: Contamination Scare

This is a two-page reading and video worksheet targeted at Upper-Intermediate and Advanced students. Before reading the article the teacher encourages the students to talk about dairy products, t ...
10 Views 8,200 Adv
Cool Mini Project ( 4 Skills Involved)

Cool Mini Project ( 4 Skills Involved)

For girls and boys! Cool mini project! Create your avatars. This will interest your students and get them working. Touches speaking, reading, writing. Goes with teenager interaction worksheets!
15 Views 27,733 ElemPre-IntInt
Teenage Oral Interaction Activity

Teenage Oral Interaction Activity

For upper elementary to intermediate, a really cool activity (all-around project) with lots of worksheets, 27 dialogue cards, vocabulary sheets etc. Perfect for 11-18 year olds. Personalities, lik ...
24 Views 29,886 Pre-IntIntAdv
Dates and Past Simple - Pairwork (Major Historical Events)

Dates and Past Simple - Pairwork (Major Historical Events)

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Pairwork Speaking Activity - Major Historical Events. Cut out the cards to use for a pairwork activity – one person must say the date correctly and describe the event, the other must gu ...
11 Views 27,546 ElemPre-IntInt
What Time Do You...?

What Time Do You...?

This is a worksheet I use for beginners to review the present simple, verbs related to everyday activities, and time. Each student asks three others about their daily activities, and then makes se ...
15 Views 20,177 Beg
Movie Worksheet: 8 Secrets of Success (with PPT)

Movie Worksheet: 8 Secrets of Success (with PPT)

This is a PPT based on a 3-min video called "8 Secrets of Success" on TED.com. It is useful for practicing speaking skills, especially discussion about topics and behaviours related to success; an ...
49 Views 168,972 Adv
Do You Agree?

Do You Agree?

This lesson plan and worksheets aim to encourage students to practice their speaking skills, giving their opinion on certain statements the teacher will read out loud about politics using specific ...
31 Views 54,053 IntAdvExam
ILR Level 1/2 Roleplays

ILR Level 1/2 Roleplays

These 8 ESL role plays are designed to challenge learners at ILR (International Language Roundtable) Level 1 or 2. The difference between these levels is the degree of resistance created by the t ...
19 Views 18,216 Pre-IntInt
Character Profiles

Character Profiles

There are 12 personalities here, each stating their name, age, a like/ dislike, and a possession. It can be used for introducing yourself/ another person; talking about likes/ dislikes, age etc.; ...
15 Views 21,876 ElemPre-Int
Play Cinderella

Play Cinderella

A simple play for Primary school children between nine and eleven years old. The play is for seven to nine characters and is mainly in the present simple, though there are some uses of the future. ...
16 Views 10,106 Elem
Speaking Discussion by Using a Reading Text

Speaking Discussion by Using a Reading Text

This speaking discussion activity has been designed with the aim of helping ESL students practice speaking English freely. By using a reading text as the background for discussion, this activity p ...
15 Views 19,775 Adv

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