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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This worksheet includes 4 situations for a role play (3 situations for 2 and 1 situation for 3 people). The topic is friendhsip, but can be adapted for the topic of relationships. It can be used ...
A nice activity for pair work (it can be used with students who have known each other for some time). Cut lists of questions out; give one to each student. Students should answer the questions abo ...
Role play the following situations. - How to apologise in different situations. - Explain your holidays by answering the questions. - Complain in different situations. - More complaining exercise ...
A test originally created for unit 1c from Nowa Era's 'English Explorer 1.' It is suppose to test the learners' knowledge of vocabulary and structures necessary to give some basic personal info in ...
This is a very useful - and funny - warm-up, especially for groups on their first lesson. You can create more versions of this game, with different destinations. Instructions are included, but bef ...
This set of cards is intended for activation and practice of comparative adjectives. Cards in red contain various popular names: from cartoon and fairy-tales characters to famous politicias, actor ...
This material provides more than ten questions for oral discussion. The topic is - how often do you do something. Helps you get to know your students better. Hope you like it! )
A set of model dialogues for your students to practice. They refer to everyday situations e.g.: at a hotel, at a restaurant,at a travel agent's, at the cinema, in a clothes shop and a shoe shop, ...
This is a compiled list of topics to make your students create dialogues based on the given subjects. Your students can work in pairs or groups of three, invent dialogues and perform them for the ...
Read We Are Family while studying families. A study of ancestors, countries around the world, or different cultures could be incorporated into this lesson. Students will learn about setting, main ...
Here's a gameboard + some vocabulary cards suitable for inter/uppermediate level or higher. Students have to choose one card and move over the board and collect all ten words which are on the card ...
This amazing 5-page worksheet is a lesson plan for a fun lesson about elections. It contains a reading text about the nature of an election, election graphing activities, an election vocabulary wo ...
The worksheet called "My Own Personal Robot" helps to work at "be going..." structure (positive and negative forms) when speaking about plans for future and also to discuss some questions concerni ...
Do this in pairs. One partner gets the first page and the other gets the second page. Partner A asks partner B questions using the Past Simple (e.g. ‘Where did you go ?’).  ...
This worksheet is really easy for elementary students to use to talk about their own family by using the clues given. Because elementary students do not have a lot of new vocabulary, they need som ...
Conversation boardgame You need a die to play. Students have to talk for 30 seconds about the topic their counter stepped on and try to reach the finish before the others. Very fun activity and i ...
This is a huge 32-page collection of practical English phrases and expressions for your students to use. Sections: Social Formulas, Communication Techniques, Exchanging Information, Inte ...
Activities based on the 2010 movie "The Blind Side", starring Sandra Bullock. This worksheet contains activities for students to do while watching (gap filling / True - False / short answer) and o ...
This worksheet + follow-up activities deals with the students' leisure time activities. There are four steps which cover both individual and pair work activities: A) The students check the freque ...
This is in fact a simplified version of a longer activity my students love (which I'm also explaining in the worksheet). In fact you can use it as a warm up before any lesson, and it works especia ...
This can be used as a whole class activity, in small groups or in pairs to assists students in identifying adverbs. Adverbs are then reinforced by associating them with an action and then creati ...
This is a great exercise to learn/revise • Names and spelling of common classroom items • alphabet pronunciation • names of members of the class Before this task check the class i ...
This archive contains one introduction file (PDF) and four game sets (4 PDF documents). 1. A Secret Message 2. Revision Board Game 3. Spymania 4. Meeting at the Airport Aim: revise reading, speaki ...
The worksheet contains some example situations about problems, Ss should give some advice for these situations. Then they practice the dialogue and answer the questions to them.
I find this activity useful for the first lesson since it allows students to get to know each other and it takes the pressure of them of having to stand up and introduce themselves – the oth ...
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