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 is a conversation plan that can be adapted for all levels and be used in both groups and individual classes. It is extensive and my students of all ages seemed to enjoy it as it was relevant ...
This Power Point presentation will help you on the Ecological topics about saving our flora and fauna. People use different methods and they have made various parks as National, Nature Reserve, Zo ...
Hello, I created a worksheet to practise winter activities and Present Simple tense. It is a simple mingling activity. Hope you'll enjoy it! Your students will practise asking questions and also ...
This was a great way I found to make my students talk and learn how to express their opinion. It's very simple and it doesn't require much effort. Handout the sheets to each student (or group, it' ...
The little red hen: Look! Seeds! Wheat seeds! Let’s plant them! Come on! Who can help me? Cat: I can’t! I want to sleep! The little red hen: Come on! Who can help me? Duck: I can&rsquo ...
Beginners conversational worksheet for simple introductions and normal greetings. List of common manners and polite words/phrases and appropiate use. I have also included some helpful conversation ...
This powerpoint presentation can be used as a get-to-know-you or icebreaker activity with a new or existing set of students. It is a great way to learn about your students' likes and dislikes and ...
This worksheet is good for speaking on the theme Friendship. It contains some questions about friends and friendship. Students can answer these questions in group or in pairs. Besides questions th ...
This PPT will help you to introduce some new vocabulary about everyday things we do. Your SS can work in a felt-tip pen regime and make some sentences about themselves or others. It can be used fo ...
Speaking activity with famous people, that requires the use of the past of verb to be, especially. There are some famous people from the U.S. and from Brazil. If the students are not from Brazil, ...
Students have to read throught the questions and answers. Then they can practice the questions with a partner. Also, the students should try to make up their own questions. It is so much fun! ...
This worksheet is meant for students at advanced levels to practice transcription into IPA and pronunciation. It consists of a series of texts from different authors, including Shakespeare, fairy ...
This is a roleplay. It can be used to enable students to practice using health and sickness vocabulary. There are three roles. Hugo, Diego and the Doctor.
This is a very, very simple worksheet. I gave the students one question and one answer that did not match and they had to go around asking each other their questions until they got the appropriate ...
These short scenarios can be used as an oral exam or as discussion or role play exercises. They can be adapted to intermediate to advanced learners of ESL. These scenarios should be preceded by ...
when I read this story for the first time I immediately thought that I should use it in my class. As preading or warm-up, I ask some questions about Nasreddin Hodga (a wise man in my culture) to m ...
Speaking activity. In the file you have a set of cards containing a proper noun, a nationality and a job. Students have to construct sentences with this information. The teacher will give each stu ...
This is a Bingo to discuss good habits & manners with children. Along with playing the Bingo at every call the teacher can ask students to comment on the phrase called out. She can also discus ...
This worksheet aims at practising making complaints. There are three different situations that happened to me personally, so I believe they might be useful to other people as these are likely to h ...
The PPt is to introduce the children to various situations related to habits. Each slide was shown and the children were asked to describe the situation and the words/phrases related to hab ...
This is a set of cards for a mingling activity for a new group of students who don't know each other very well. It is supposed to be used at the first or one of the first lessons. The students go ...
Work in groups of 5 (maybe 6).This is a case study the ultimate goal of which is to find the criminal and reconstruct the possible murder scenes and scenarios. In fact, there is no single right an ...
This is a selling skills roleplay to be used by a pair of students, intermediate level and above. Student A is selling exercise bikes and has the features of three different models; they must ask ...
It is part of a project named Positive Piece of News Project. Love, dedication, building confidence in loss, past tense and environmentally friendly activities. It is about getting involved. ...
Not just for listening to the song, one of my favourite songs, but also for speaking time, we can start by showing some photographs of people, one person in each photograph, and we can use that qu ...
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