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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A fun quiz to play with your students and at the end there's room for a lot of talking as well. My students love this kinda stuff. Read, think, and shout out the answer!
Look at these issues with a partner. Decide if you are in favor, against or have mixed opinions. Example issues: owning a car children learning a foreign language using the internet eating m ...
You have surely heard of this story about Jack and the beanstalk, haven't you? Well, here's a complete (!) lesson plan based around it: the total of 9 word documents including jumbled sentences th ...
Use this dialogue interjecting how the characters must behave throughout the play. You can assign general themes that everyone must adhere to or give individual characteristics.
A set of materials for practicing both direct and reported speech: punctuation marks cards, comic worksheets, story lines, teacher's notes and answers.
A simple news story with a set of questions folowed by a word focus, a simple writing task based on memory, a few speaking and discussion prompts and a final writing task. the audio is embedded an ...
This is an integrated listening, speaking and writing task based on a true news story about a famous football player. The news story is taken from an online magazine. The students listen to the em ...
To practice dialogues with the game. Ex: Waiter: Would you like something to drink? Customer: Could you please bring me another fork? There are cards for the customer and for the waiter. Use a die ...
AIM To speak to as many partners as possible, asking what people would like and making polite requests. GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS Offers and requests Would like Asking and saying how much things cost ...
The task of the students is to make up dialogue using the tips included in the following worksheet. Each student is a representative of some country who shares rules of good behaviour in different ...
The aim of the game is to guess,with the fewer clues as possible, what it is being described. The sooner, the higher the score. I usually divide the class in small group and proceed to read one of ...
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