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 is a power point designed for pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced students. Students can talk about what they are afraid of by reading different questions in the p ...
Students design a reality show, and try to convince their peers to watch it. A whole class mingling activity for levels pre-intermediate and up. At least 6 students, preferably 10 to 50, ages roug ...
This mingling activity might be used as a warm-up for primary students at the elementary level. It lets them revise the spelling, practise "have you got" construction and short answers to it. The ...
This exercise was designed as extra practice when I taught verb to be in the past. You can also use to review the same verb. I tried to keep the vocaulary very simple, but if you think some words ...
Simply cut out and give the cards to the students for a short speaking activity. Suitable for starters, beginner & pre-intermediate. These cards include speaking using: adverbs of frequency, b ...
Students create a mini company, and design and sell apps. The "design" aspect is simple, and consists of inventing a name for the app, and describing what it does. A simple, whole class mingl ...
This is great for handing out to kids at the beginning of class and can be used when students go back to school. They can write down a few things about themselves and get to know a little about th ...
This simple role-play has worked like magic with every class I've tried it with. I've tried to provide enough direction and suggestions that students take an interest in the activity and don't ta ...
Missing Word Association Definitions. In this exercise students have to guess the missing words in the chain of associations. The teacher gives clues/definitions and also explains the connect ...
This is a fairly simple telco lesson, mainly aimed at older teenagers and young adults. Students form groups of 3 to 5, and create a mini company, then devise and sell mobile phone plans (=cell ph ...
This team activity can be space demanding especially if you teach a large class. But it is very easy to arrange the classroom for it. You just need to divide students into two groups and place two ...
It will help you to improve students' speaking skills. You will know how to prepare for a job interview, what job you want to do, how to find a job, what your dream job is, what different types o ...
All too often, teachers start off the lesson by saying, ‘Turn to page 65…’ It’s important to get the students warmed up and in the mood for English with a short activity, ...
This file includes four topic cards. You can put the students into groups of four, ask them to take a card randomly, and encourage them to talk. Hope it works well!
This power-point presentation can be used for teaching and modeling how to order food in the class. It contains some pictures and names of different food you can ask your students to change the co ...
This worksheet contains questions to practise, and hopefully understand better, all the present, past and future tenses. It is fully editable, so you are free to add more questions if you want. Al ...
This is a dialogue and role play exercise. The dialogue sets the pattern of talking in English, and leads gently into the role play exercises. The whole thing took 1 hour for my Chinese middle sch ...
This is a fun game for reviewing jobs and what different people do in our community. It includes different jobs such as the coach, tailor, carpenter, plumber, etc. The instruction of the game is i ...
It is a definition- speaking game. We define the words at the top without using the ones under them. It is great for speaking and we all enjoy it. We print it and cut the cards. We use this game a ...
This is a script based on the famous fable "The Turtle and the Hare". It's fun to make your students perform a play. Also it gives them a morale for life: work hard for our goals. You can ask your ...
This worksheet includes different questions about Language. You can put your students into pairs or small groups and encourage them to talk. Hope it works!
This activity can be used as a warmer or filler and is based on a famous critical thinking exercise. It works well for young adults, but I guess might also be tried out with children and teenagers ...
This is a sheet of 5 role plays dealing with interesting scenarios one might encounter when dealing with a smoker or being a smoker. While the sheet gives some details about the character to be pl ...
It includes different questions about "Hobbies". Put your students into pairs or small groups and encourage them to talk. It is designed for elementary level. Hope it works well!
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