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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This worksheet is about spotting lies in everyday situation. It encourages discussion and also provided students with a few ideas to help them spot a lie.
From my experience, this works jus ...
For tweens and teens, this worksheet works as a speaking practice for the question "how do you get to...". Students mingle asking the question and ticking the corresponding box for each means tran ...
This is a role play that I use to teach superstitions. I firstly introduce the topic and then ask students to brainstorm and come up with a list of superstitions from their country. After that I t ...
It's an interesting way to revise the word order and understanding of questions. You could change the questions depending of the level. The children enjoy answering and pretending they are on a re ...
Objective: This is a fun way for students to understand the complexity of the sweatshop issue. It also serves as a review of the lessons and issues.
Setting:A hearing concerning sweatshops and ch ...
This worksheet contains 3 role cards for a role-play about a TV company.
Example:
Role A:You are a senior manager of Bingo TV, an independent broadcasting company. Prepare to table th ...
This worksheet will help practice times of the day along with Present and Past Simple. Pair work is determined to make questions and answers using pictures about the daily routine and saying the r ...
First worksheet of three. Worksheet A is a Find Someone Who type of worksheet. Students mingle and ask others ...Do you have ............ ? ( these students have cards, worksheet B, that tell th ...
This activity is not originally mine. I´ve adapted it from a magazine. Students are the participants in the reality TV show "Big Brother".They should choose two people who are going to be dr ...
It is a vocabulary exercise which can be used after dealing with worklife and any job retaed activities. You have to prepare word cards and form groups of 5 to 6 students.
This activity includes two newspaper articles. One brings arguments against the use of noisy vuvuzelas during the worlcup and the other one gives arguments in favour of them.
3 situations, 6 cards for roleplaying. Why swappy? Because you swap the roles of partners during the dialogue! It´s FUN! Instructions on page 3. Enjoy!
3 situations, 6 cards for roleplaying. Why swappy? Because you swap the roles of partners during the dialogue! It´s FUN! Instructions on page 3. Enjoy!
3 situations, 6 cards for roleplaying. Why swappy? Because you swap the roles of partners during the dialogue! It´s FUN! Instructions on page 3. Enjoy!
Using pictures to give you an idea and make sentences with be supposed to. Students must be encouraged to produce different situations from the pictures.
A list of 40 personal questions for the practice of asking and answering using the present simple and the verb 'to be'. Teachers can adapt to theirs students' needs.
Feel free to use them as conv ...
There are five different role plays for the students to perform in order to get them talking and they are all about transportation.
At the Bus Station
At the Train Station
At the Airport
This worksheet contains 6 speaking activities. Each of them is based on excersises that theatre actors use to warm up or rehearse. Some od the activities are already popular with ESL/EFL teachers, ...
Read this story and try to imagine what happened. There are 2 rolecards: Journalist and Joe Cole (the man who was abducted). Students role-play the interview based on the information provided in t ...
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