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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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Who Am I? Celebrity Names For The Mingling Activities and Role Plays

Who Am I? Celebrity Names For The Mingling Activities and Role Plays

Every teacher knows how exciting and motivating it is for students to 'try on' a new personality, to have a chance to be someone else - even for a few minutes! That's why all sorts of 'impersonat ...
20 Views 24,723 All
Don't You Believe Me? Spotting Lies Worksheet

Don't You Believe Me? Spotting Lies Worksheet

, Speaking
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 ...
9 Views 15,476
How Do You Get To School?

How Do You Get To School?

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 ...
13 Views 13,467 BegElem
Silly Superstitions

Silly Superstitions

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 ...
31 Views 42,573 Adv
A Job Interview

A Job Interview

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 ...
38 Views 35,860 Elem
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Sweatshop and Child Labor Role Play

Sweatshop and Child Labor Role Play

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 ...
16 Views 15,893
Political Nightmares Role Play

Political Nightmares Role Play

Political Nightmares  Aim: Discussion, expressing opinions, agreeing and disagreeing Activity: Political Nightmares - Interviewing and discussion Level: Advanced   Outline: • ...
14 Views 27,606 AdvExam
Bingo TV: Chairing A Meeting Role-Play

Bingo TV: Chairing A Meeting Role-Play

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 ...
13 Views 15,881 IntAdvExam
Times of the Day Worksheet

Times of the Day Worksheet

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 ...
28 Views 28,374 ElemPre-IntInt
What's In Your Pencil Case? Worksheets A, B and C

What's In Your Pencil Case? Worksheets A, B and C

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 ...
19 Views 18,557 ElemPre-Int
Role Play: Big Brother

Role Play: Big Brother

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 ...
17 Views 21,785 Int
Jobs Taboo: Group Work Vocabulary Check

Jobs Taboo: Group Work Vocabulary Check

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.
14 Views 34,874 IntAdv
56 Helpful Phrases

56 Helpful Phrases

To use in compositions and oral topics: formulas to start, to give opinion, to grab attention, and to finish a text\speech.
34 Views 14,130 All
Worldcup Vuvuzelas: Pros and Cons Reading

Worldcup Vuvuzelas: Pros and Cons Reading

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. 
27 Views 17,489 Adv
Swappy Role-plays for Adults #3

Swappy Role-plays for Adults #3

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!
53 Views 77,947 Pre-IntIntAdv
Swappy Role-Plays for Adults #2

Swappy Role-Plays for Adults #2

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!
45 Views 36,734 Pre-IntIntAdv
Swappy Roleplays For Adults #1

Swappy Roleplays For Adults #1

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!
69 Views 81,722 Pre-IntIntAdv
Survive The Sinking Ship - Who Do You Save?

Survive The Sinking Ship - Who Do You Save?

A survivor activity for revising personal characteristics vocabulary and subsequent discussion on who to save.
33 Views 95,393 Pre-IntIntAdv
Regrets Worksheet

Regrets Worksheet

A writing template where Ss are supposed to create sentences (express regrets and aplology) according to the suggested pattern.
28 Views 21,127 Adv
Using to be supposed to

Using to be supposed to

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.
23 Views 25,204 Pre-Int
Wh-Questions Practice: 40 Personal Questions

Wh-Questions Practice: 40 Personal Questions

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 ...
22 Views 55,127 Elem
5 Transportation Role Plays To Get Your Students Talking

5 Transportation Role Plays To Get Your Students Talking

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
28 Views 44,514 Elem
Amy Johnson: worksheet and lesson plan and keys

Amy Johnson: worksheet and lesson plan and keys

Hi, this is a pairwork about Amy Johnson, Britain’s most famous female pilot. Students revise the simple past. Key and lesson plan included
12 Views 12,243 Int
Six Drama Speaking Activities for the ESL/EFL Classroom

Six Drama Speaking Activities for the ESL/EFL Classroom

Speaking
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, ...
24 Views 32,642 Adv
Alien Abduction Role-Play

Alien Abduction Role-Play

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 ...
18 Views 17,523 Int

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