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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Students practise banking vocabulary in this roleplay between a potential client and an account manager. They have already studied and know words such as bank account, deposit, loan, interest rate ...
This exercise can be used for oral or written practice. Following the instructions in the body and outside it students can guide themselves to talk about his name, physical appearance, nationalit ...
This worksheet will help you and your students to ask questions and answer them. There are 100 questions and there are different subjects to talk about. This worksheet is made for speaking classes ...
The topic is about things that make people get annoyed. There are cards enough for a 30 minute class. For pair work, one to one or debates in a conversation class. Teacher can elicit some ideas an ...
Role cards for a group of 8 students. Two cards are given to a pair of students, they have instructions regarding a problem they need to talk out with their neighbor, you can always add similar c ...
This worksheet wil help you and your students to get to know the main and important functions of public relations. The study the definition of PR. It is nice to work with the group, to raise the d ...
This worksheet is called 'Classroom Management: Appointment Clock Buddies' and it was kindly provided by Laura Candler: we encourage you to visit http://www.lauracandler.com/ for more worksheet pa ...
It is a very good activity for the first class. It is like getting to know your friends. A student finds his/her partner, then they ask each other these questions. It can help students to form que ...
This worksheet is called 'Back to School Worksheet: Names to Know' and it was generously provided by Laura Candler: do not hesitate to visit http://www.lauracandler.com/ for even more teaching ide ...
At the beginning of a new school year you want to create a good atmosphere with your new classes who are not just new to you - they are also new to each other. This worksheet will help them to lea ...
This information gap worksheet can be used to practice in pairs (or mingle) asking and giving personal information, as well as revising the alphabet and the numbers. It would be useful to go throu ...
A categorised index of 495 story elements including: settings, characters, situations, objects, and times. Ideal for prompting writing exercises and class discussions. Can easily be used section ...
The aims of the powerpoint: to practise the vocabulary, the prepositions of place, to describe a town and there is there are stucture. Students will need to match the pictures to the words, tick t ...
This is an adaptation of the famous tv show "Pasapalabra". It has been prepared to divide the class into 3 groups. The teacher reads the definition of a word starting with each letter of the alpha ...
This worksheet, called 'Natural Disaster Worksheet: Tsunami Curriculum: Grades 7 - 12', was kindly provided by Washington Military Department/Emergency Management Division, with some portions of i ...
These are critical questions for a classroom discussion on advertising. The document contains a list of 50 questions that you can use to spark a lively discussion for your lesson on Advertising an ...
This worksheet, called 'Natural Disaster Worksheet: Pets in Disaster', was originally provided by Australian Red Cross organization. The page can be printed out and given to each student as encour ...
This is my new ppt for your students. After my speaking activity (Peter's Family 1) they can play and practise family vocabulary using possesives. I usually use it when they work in groups. One of ...
It is my new powerpoint for our students. They will need to make sentences about the members of the family using possessive 's and possessive adjectives. They will need to complete the sentences w ...
This is a conversation about the first day at school. The audio is embedded into the document and also attached to it. There is a listening exercise with a few multiple choice questions. It is fol ...
It is my new ppt for my beginners. At the end of the school year they need to revise basic questions and answers they have learnt. They will play a game where one of the students is the interviewe ...
Practise "Do you like?" "Yes I do/ No I don't". After completing the exercise students are asked to complete the second exercise (b) and they have to write two sentences "I like ...." "I don' ...
It is a speaking and writing activity using PPt. Students can work in pairs completing the questions and answers. (How much is this / How much are these...? It's.../They're...). They can write the ...
This is a series of short role plays about past perfect and simple past. Students role play the situations and the others find out the situations by making up sentences in the past perfect, such a ...
It is a speaking activity using PPt. Students work in pairs and practise Wh- questions and answers using Present Simple. One of the students who is sitting with his/her back to the board has to an ...
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