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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Cut the pictures and give them to the students. Let them think why this can be a bad gift and in what country this superstition exists. Then cut the stripes with "action - result" information and ...
This is an easy yet fun and effective activity that you can try to learn about countries, nationalities as well as places of origin. Hope it works for you. You only need to print the cards as many ...
A board game targeted for elementary level adult learners. Students need to formulate a suitable question (using what, where, when, who, how long and how much) for the answer written on each box ...
Can be used as an introductory task for a class about cinema or before watching a movie. Work in pairs playing out a dialogue between a person who wants to go to the cinema and a cinema clerk. I ...
This is a role play: Student A – You want to ask a friend out. Persuade him that he can put off his studying and relax! Student B - You’re asked out to go on the town with the friends ...
Even though it's a three page long magazine article, it's one of my favourites to give my students for homework to read. It is very captivating and they all seem to like it. I want to make them sp ...
Here is another set of 24 flashcards, this time for practising reported questions. There are 12 cards containing yes/no questions and 12 containing wh-questions. They can be used after the student ...
Here is a set of 24 flashcards for practising reported statements, commands and requests. Cut them and laminate them. You can use them any way you want. I usually put my students into groups of si ...
In this worksheet, I share some of the ideas I always use for conversation classes. The ideas are presented into 30 different topics concerning the subject of the class or the grammar lesson, such ...
greatttt just hilarious game which I prepeared for my turkish speaking students. You can play it with your students if you use a board and projector in your classroom. I have 15 students. Before ...
First of all I ask 2-3 students to read the text. then let them try to guess. as soon as the answer is found i work with them a second activity with the same riddle. I some of them to retell the a ...
Snakes and ladders Procedure: Divide the class into groups of four students. Give each group one game board, one die, and four tokens. Position all the students' tokens on the square marked " ...
Hi there! In my opinion the best way to make them start speaking is as many interesting questions as possible. So here you are =) enjoy that with your students. P.S. I also would like to thank the ...
You can play a board game using dice and asking and answering the questions. Or you can cut this worksheet into squares, hide them in a cap and let your students choose a random question from ther ...
You can practise asking general question in your class using this exercise. Each student is given a card with three questions and s/he has to go around the calss and interview his classmates and g ...
Cut the stripes and put them on your students' backs. Ask your Ss to make a circle and let them read the questions on the back of their groupmates. A student can only hear the question, but he has ...
For this worksheet the teacher must bring some cards to the class and these cards will guide them through the conversation. The teacher puts the cards and makes a circle with the students. E ...
This is a lesson plan that I have used a lot. In fact, it's become my "go to" first lesson plan with adults in General English or Conversational classes. I've always received positive feedback fro ...
This worksheet is based on a photo article on http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/nyregion/27belongings.html. Students look at the pictures some immigrants have taken with them to NYC and try to gu ...
This speaking board game is very simple. Students have to throw the dice and move from square to square until they reach the "finish" square. They will be able to speak a lot, and their partners ...
It's a great back to school activity that you can also use as an ice-breaker. Encourage students to communicate in the past, present and future tenses. Materials required - some pictures the stud ...
This is a simple role play activity designed to get students to request and enquire basic information over the phone. They must spell and write down some basic information, but also practice polit ...
A speaking activity for upper-intermediate students inspired by the Desperate Housewives tv series which students may be familiar with. Not a role play, but a simulation activity where students p ...
This worksheet will help your students practice speaking and describing pictures using Present Continuous. The students must describe the picture of the Simpsons family using the words and express ...
I used this worksheet as warmer after the lesson in which we systematised and practised the Present Perfect. I used it with an adult class, but as it is so short, it can be easily adapted to ...
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