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.
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For those more advanced students who have seen these sorts of activities too many times, this might bring some humour and surprise into the usual "Have You Ever" survey. The strange choice of the ...
This worksheet provides various sentences/phrases that may be used in a phone dialogue. I played the telephone game with my class as a warmer, and then we went over some phone vocabulary together ...
This is the 4th in a series of role plays designed to review "useful" english found in the textbook used for 2º Programa at a Bilingual High School in Spain. The role plays are designed to no ...
A worksheet with 20 cards containing hints to make questions about daily routines (present simple). Suitable for pairwork or group work.
Extension: students can write down the full questions and ...
The activity is aimed at practising questions related to personal experience in Present Perfect in a form of a communicative activity. Each student in the group receives a questionnaire. All she/h ...
This is a role play for paired students of mixed proficiency. One student plays a customer who finds a cockroach in their food while the other student plays the waiter. Depending on their speaking ...
It is a definition-speaking game. We define the words at the top without using the ones under them. It is great for speaking and we all enjoy it. We print it in cardboard or laminate it and cut th ...
This is a worksheet in a series that I am doing to review for an oral exam for 2º Programa. It is based on the grammar used in the book with role plays that I have made to complement them. Mi ...
This worksheet is to help 2nd Program students prepare for an end of term oral exam. This particular role-play focuses on asking where, when, what happened, and the events that took place. There a ...
I made this to review with 2nd Program of the ESO. It's a role play activity to help them remember how to suggest activities to their partners. It contains three different situations. Would you l ...
This is a great conversation activity for Upper Intermediate students. There are two situations to choose from depending on the boy/girl ratio in class. The Family situation allows two students of ...
PW Oral practice: Working on to be supposed to + was/were going to Students will be in different roles - parents and children. The parent will say something the child was supposed to do and the ch ...
AN ACTIVITY TO REINFORCE VOCABULARY & SENTENCE MAKING Materials Required: 1. Rolling dice 2. A chart with the words below .Bold enough for the children to see:
NOUNS[ A] ...
A role play is a great way for more advanced students to practice spontaneous speech. I teach the students the phrase "cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you your future", and, as a class, di ...
This worksheet contains a brief explanation of the infinitive of purpose and different activities, including two real-life speaking tasks. I created it for my student who works as a software devel ...
An interesting reading passage dealing with the possible risks posed by video games on children's health and life in general. The worksheets also include reading questions ranging from comprehensi ...
A 'Find Someone Who' to review present simple, past simple, and future with 'going to'. I created this as many minglers only focus on one tense and it's good for students to practice the tenses th ...
With adults or young adults in mind, this sheet is a selection of questions that English speakers will often ask or be asked on first introductions. This could act as a prompt for a role play or ...
This is a worksheet where the students take the role of people who are in charge of a travel agency and are confronted with four different scenarios. They face problems that may happen during a to ...
This is a set of cards organised by countries (Italy, France, Kenya, Russia, etc.). On the card there are pictures which represent the country's cuisine and some tradition, typically associated wi ...
The aim of this game is to memorize 42 irregular verbs in an entertaining way. The winner is the player who can make as many families as possible. Can be played by groups from 2 to 8 players. Befo ...
Cinderella The famous fairy tale adapted to a script for pre-junior and elementary students to perform on stage. Many thanks to my best friend Angela for her co-operation to this work!!! level : ...
The famous fairy tale adapted to a sketch for pre-junior and elementary students. Students first can read the script and then to perform it on stage. Level : pre-junior, elementary' Skills : read ...
This is a board game for communicative practice of the first, second and third conditionals, as well as phrases expressing wishes or regret (if only, I wish). Target group: intermediate+ students. ...
Let’s Talk 1 Practises verb tenses: Present Continuous, Past Simple, Future Simple This worksheet can be used for conversation practise and preparation for oral exams. My adult students fi ...
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