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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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Discuss, Chat or Talk About...

Discuss, Chat or Talk About... "Growing Up"

Here is another of my themed conversation worksheets. As the title says this sheet focuses on your formative years and how they went. If you like this worksheet please take a look at my others. I' ...
24 Views 16,818 ElemPre-IntInt
Weather Reporter

Weather Reporter

Weather girl/boy activity: The document has weather symbols to cut out and use. I usually get the student to draw a Map of Spain or other country and have them choose five cities. They make up a w ...
19 Views 28,737 All
Daily Routine and Habits

Daily Routine and Habits

This is a pairwork about daily routine. Pupils usually start a conversation on daily routine using vocabulary on this theme. There is a little bit of grammar and then they sum up their neighbours' ...
6 Views 30,971 Pre-IntInt
After Sales Dialogue [Complaint]

After Sales Dialogue [Complaint]

This is a cloze test in the form of a dialogue. Students could work in pairs or small groups in order to complete the conversation using the words given. When they have finished they could act t ...
17 Views 26,715 Pre-IntInt
Shopping Situations & Role-Plays

Shopping Situations & Role-Plays

This exercise is good for developing conversation skills. It contains situations for pairwork practice. One student is a customer, the other a shop assistant and they need to negotiate, compromise ...
33 Views 76,317 IntAdv
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Discuss, Chat or Talk about...

Discuss, Chat or Talk about... "Family"

This is another of my discussion worksheets that I use with my adult students. They pretty much all have the same format. Each worksheet has 18 discussion/conversation questions that revolve aroun ...
32 Views 25,622 ElemPre-IntInt
Discuss, Chat or Talk about...

Discuss, Chat or Talk about... "Feelings and Emotions"

A conversation style worksheet that revolves around the topics of feelings and emotions. Generally speaking I use these worksheets with large classes, but they work just as well with small groups. ...
34 Views 100,910 Pre-IntIntAdv
Discuss, Chat or Talk about...

Discuss, Chat or Talk about... "Dating"

Here is another of my conversation sheets. I hope you find it useful. I work at a university in South Korea and for me this kind of sheet works well. Korean students often have an imbalance in the ...
19 Views 17,227 Pre-IntIntAdv
Discuss, Chat or Talk about...

Discuss, Chat or Talk about... "Can You"

This is another of my conversation style worksheets. Obviously this one focuses on ability. My students usually work in pairs or small groups with this kind of worksheet. I have big classes, so on ...
21 Views 34,774 ElemPre-Int
Role Plays: Relationships

Role Plays: Relationships

4 unusual and fun situations for students to role play. Tested in the classroom. Students love them and get all involved and enthusiastic. Perfect for intermediate level and up. For your convenien ...
54 Views 104,681 IntAdv
Discuss, Chat or Talk About...

Discuss, Chat or Talk About... "Phones"

This a conversation style worksheet that should get your students talking about the subject of mobile phones. There are eighteen conversation questions on the sheet that revolve around the topic o ...
30 Views 29,870 ElemPre-IntInt
Family Members Mingle

Family Members Mingle

Hi It can help the students to practice question making. After the cards are spread, the students are supposed to mingle and ask each other questions to find their family members. Questions regar ...
21 Views 13,181 Elem
Interviewing Famous People

Interviewing Famous People

This is an interesting activity for your students to use past tense and question formation. In pairs they have to prepare an interview to a famous person, the dates and facts are provided. 10 minu ...
20 Views 50,060 Pre-IntInt
Getting to Know You

Getting to Know You

It is a mingling activity for Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate level learners. Probably useful to get to know each others. Although best suitable to be used in the beginning of the course to getto ...
10 Views 14,500 ElemPre-IntInt
Listening and Speaking: Animals, Insects and Food - Rickey Gervais Sketch

Listening and Speaking: Animals, Insects and Food - Rickey Gervais Sketch

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This provides students with a lot of discussion. My students talked for ages about these two subjects: strange foods from around the work and animals/insects they don't like. This class will take ...
12 Views 18,315 IntAdv
Monday Madness Game

Monday Madness Game

This game (board and situation cards) was created to revise and practice functional language: apologizing, socializing and asking for help. Originally tailored to upper-intermediate and advanced s ...
71 Views 106,855 IntAdv
Song Worksheet: Loving You by Aloe Blacc

Song Worksheet: Loving You by Aloe Blacc

This worksheet offers a gap fill activity, a present simple / present continous activity, an irregular verbs activity, a speaking activity (students imagine her side of the story and come up with ...
4 Views 9,052 Pre-IntInt
Functional Language: Giving/Asking for an Opinion

Functional Language: Giving/Asking for an Opinion

A list of useful conversational phrases used to express or ask for an opinion, agree or disagree and express doubts. Last section suggests that the students think of more topic-appropriate phrases ...
42 Views 68,618 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Cinderella Role-play

Cinderella Role-play

This worksheet is a nice way to make the class on theatre amusing and motivate students to learn English. First of all, divide students into two group and ask them to fill in the grid on the first ...
20 Views 21,611 Int
Speaking: Retelling Coherently

Speaking: Retelling Coherently

This is a funny activity for intermediate students. Put the students in pairs (Student A, Student B) Give Student A a card (like those below). The card includes some expressions Student A must use ...
13 Views 15,517 Pre-IntInt
Speaking: Your New You

Speaking: Your New You

Invent a new name, lifestyle, job, etc. Don't let your students look at other worksheet, each one must be confidential! Advice them to write in Capital Letters (so students can't recognize th ...
11 Views 10,985 ElemPre-Int
Making Suggestions and Expressing Preferences

Making Suggestions and Expressing Preferences

This is just a role play with an example and some situations for students to role play making suggestions and expressing preferences. I have tried this activity in class a couple of times. At firs ...
15 Views 53,738 Pre-Int
Plan a Party - Guessing Game

Plan a Party - Guessing Game

Warm up speaking activity perfect for the beginning of the lesson. Students are given a card with specific celebration name. Then they describe how they would plan a party for it without saying wh ...
11 Views 19,104 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Who Are You? Fake Identity Card Activity

Who Are You? Fake Identity Card Activity

For adult, complete beginner students - When using your own personal information becomes too boring (and too easy), use this activity to change things up. Each student receives a card with their ' ...
26 Views 61,757 Beg
Busy Schedule

Busy Schedule

I designed this worksheet for a group of secretaries who needed practice speaking about obligation and schedules. I wanted them to practice communicating information about schedules, making a plan ...
10 Views 16,616 Int

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