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 is a form Ss have to fill out and then ask the people in class to check if their guesses are true. Contains questions that will require the use of various modal verbs. Works great with upper ...
This is a nice speaking activity that Ss can do in groups. The teacher cuts up the cards and Ss put the pile face down in front of them. S1 takes a card with the tense and reads out the questions ...
This activity is to get students motivated and eager to share their experiences and interests. It can be adapted to different levels and contents; and also allows students to add to their classroo ...
The worksheet is a colourful speaking card. Following the steps of the exercise kids will be able to make up a short story about personal information about the character. This card is an effective ...
Put the following words in order:
many people / everybody / hardly anybody / almost everybody / nobody / most people / a few people
Then match this second set of phrases to phrases in ...
Student A
1.You're writing a report for school about horoscopes. You want to find out the newspaper predictions for all the star signs below. But your baby sister destroyed part of the page. So y ...
It is Sunday,and you are at the local park where there is a morning flea market.
Sellers:
You love to go to flea markets because it is a chance to sell used things you no longer need. Also, you ...
The situation:
You are going to play a conversation game about the future. You must make a natural conversation about different topics in the future. You may talk about yourself or about anyone e ...
Student A:
You and your partner are racing other pairs of students to win a prize for being the first pair to reach the finish line. The winner will receive some treasure! You can only tell each ...
Work in groups of four.
You and your friends are planning to go on a four-day vacation together during the winter break. Each of you has different ideas, so you need to agree on a plan. Use the s ...
Rules:
Mix up all the cards. Place them upside down on the table in front of you. They should not be on top of each other. One person should turn over two cards so both players can see them. If ...
Do this activity in groups of four or five.These events are things that have happened to you in the past.
Pick up a card and read it out to the other members of your group. They must each ask you ...
The situation:
Say the following to your students:
You are all students who share a house. Today everyone wants to cook (everyone else has to clean up afterwards). So you have decided to have a ...
This is a great roleplay worksheet that will keep your students talking for as long as you want them to :)
There are cards with the situation about interviewing a celebrity who is 1000 year ...
This is 1-hour role-play lesson plan about visitors coming to the company. Ss will have to present their company's products and/or services, using authentic materials as a starting point.
These are tasks for a 60min listening+speaking lesson. Firstly, it is very important to exploit the song as much as possible for the listening purposes. You can even find a vido clip in the Intern ...
A complete worksheet recording a recent Associated Press style story of 500 words dealing with an issue relevent to everyone today..."The Crises" and how it is hurting real people. Included is a s ...
A warm-up activity for a first day class. Each student is given a piece of paper with some information about their teacher, they have to memorize it. Then they stand up and share the information. ...
These cards can be used either as an information gap activity where students ask and answer questions to each other (Where are you from?, what's your star sign? Can you....? , etc) and complete a ...
Vocabulary preparation and practice for simple roleplays about complaining in a restaurant. First students translate some common sentences. Then they put a few short conversations in the correct ...
This is a fun class activity where students have to move around and ask 9 different students general questions which all start with the the phrase "it depends, if....". It takes about 20 minutes ...
This is a set of 20 cards, each has a situation on it, a role to act out regarding their attitude to learning. I find it a lot of fun to hand one to each student and have then let them think about ...
This material is suitable for your speaking class. There's a role play between a travel agent and the tourist. Students can develop their vocabulary by having a conversation about tourism places a ...
In this activity students are asked to think of appropriate gestures to illustrate various words, then to actually say several sentences supporting them with corresponding gestures and emphasizing ...
This is a text of a presentation where your students will first need to choose appropriate gestures to communicate the message better, then try reading the presentation out loud to their classmate ...
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