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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I wrote some sentences to organize a nice speaking activity for my groups, may be you also will add anything. I usually cut the paper into stripes and put it into a special bag which I use for suc ...
With the help of this worksheet you will have the opportunity to enrich your vocabulary on the topic "family". Not only new words, but verbs to describe family relationships and interesting ...
The handout includes several pictures connected with happiness. It can be useful while telling about happy moments in people's lives. Excellent for speaking in classroom as well as during individ ...
It is a worksheet talking about olympic sports. I used it in my class to play this game: I cut the two parts (sport and explanation) and I give one each to my students; then they have to move arou ...
"Puss in Boots" The famous fairy tale adapted in a sketch for pre-A1 and A1 students to perform on stage. Level : pre-A1, A1 Skills : reading, speaking Objectives : Students can interact with th ...
Situational discussion on the role of cars in our society. Besides the discussion, it can also be used to work with conditionals and modal-should, present and past. Can be used with intermediat ...
Students need to guess the top word without using any of the 'taboo' words underneath it. I find this activity very useful in vocabulary and self-confidence building. Used mainly as a warm up, it ...
This is a very low level script based exercise. Every student gets a copy. The teacher folds the paper in half along the y axis. Then hands one to student 1 and one to student 2. Student 1 read ...
This is suitable for children who have just learned the present perfect. There is a task where sentences with the present perfect have to be written for given pictures and a mix and mingle activi ...
This game involves completing simple sentences. The beginning of the sentence is there for the child and they must finish the sentence so that it makes sense. Great game for consolidating work o ...
Three real situations were written to Dear Deidre, a famous "Heart Doctor" in England. Split your students in groups and make them read one of situations. They will give some advices using the mod ...
Print out the material according to the number of students in the classroom. Each student will have one worksheet and walk around the classroom asking his/her classmates the questions provided on ...
I found this worksheet once on a language learning portal. It is a great role-play for practising the past continuous in a communicative, fun way. Make sure you first teach the past continuou ...
Mingling activity asking about different disasters, using the 'Find someone who' format. It is followed by a pair or small group activity of putting disasters into categories. Useful when the top ...
This replaces the previous file. I have updated it a little, based on student feedback. One student has a room to let, the other wants to rent a room. Using the sheets students write th ...
Another one worksheet about ECCE exams. In part one there are possible questions about personal information, food, free time, work, etc for the first part of the oral examination. In the second pa ...
Everyone has a dream. Ideal for business conversation. Students can use their creativity to come up with information. Design a business card to go along with the information and exchange informati ...
Words for taboo. The students have to explain the first word in each box and at the same time avoid using the other related words in the same box. The vocabulary has been chosen pretty much at ran ...
It's a presentation that I used with my college freshmen ESL class to help them with their public speaking skills as they are required to give presentations quite often in English. it's not really ...
This worksheet is about asking and answering name and age. I use it to make students train the writing odf the questions and of the answers. After the writing exercise students should talk with ea ...
This is a role-play/improvisation where the students take it in turns to play the part of a door to door salesperson. They have to try to convince unenthusiastic buyers to purchase one of the new ...
The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate how native English speakers can encourage a speaker to give more details about an event and also to indicate that we are interested in what the speak ...
This worksheet I used with my advanced adults. After the video you can get some conversation and debates going around the topic of education. Make sure you look at the video first as I don't hav ...
This is a printable version of the old favorite Monopoly game, for those of us who might have no access to a Monopoly game otherwise. 2-6 players. Monopoly is a fun game for practicing communicati ...
This is a printable version of the old favorite Scrabble word game, for those of us who might have no access to a Scrabble game otherwise. This game is a fun way to practice spelling, math, vocabu ...
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