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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The aim of this worksheet is to improve students speaking skills. This worksheet is appropriate for all levels. Teacher can put students in pairs or individually asked them to think about each top ...
A super conversation class. All you need is a dice and a voice! Students roll the dice two times, whatever the two numbers are the student has to chat about for a preset time ranging from 1-3 mins ...
This worksheet may help you to have a class discussion about comparatives. There will be question (A) and question (B) for different students. The students are going to have some conversations and ...
This is a worksheet for elementary level students (specially to kid audience). The task is explained inside the document attached for more references on how to do the exercise. There are 6 rows wi ...
This is a worksheet I wrote to use with an adult Business English student. It is appropriate for any level from pre-intermediate upwards. It aims to teach the student how to react to normal, unexp ...
I made this booklet on All About Me for my Pre- schoolers. First I discussed with the children about each page, making it into an interactive session. The responses were varied. The pictures on a ...
This is an activity you can use when you want your students to discuss something and they pretend that they don't know what to say. Give them these strange conversation starters. Il should bring s ...
If you lead the Speaking club, it is a nice topic to discuss. Students mostly share their experience and knowledge. Some facts could be logically understandable or you can use this link to discove ...
A worksheet for elementary students allowing you to introduce the topic of presentations. You may wish to complement it by watching a video of a presentation and ask the students if it was a good ...
This is a reading comprehension exercise for pre-intermediate and intermediate students regarding food crisis in the world. Students must read the text and then answer a few questions along with a ...
There are two recipes where students practice getting to know the amount of ingredients for cooking. So they repeat how much/how many and some verbs about cooking. You should pre-teach words if yo ...
This is a speaking activity which helps students to revise formation of questions using past simple. They need to get information from each other to acknowledge the discovery of the first chocolat ...
A worksheet is dedicated to future simple usage. There you can find a dialogue about planning a birthday party, all sentences with future simple are highlited. It can help students to understand i ...
This is a variation on classic mingle "Find someone who..". I used it at the first lesson after the summer break. I like this lively activity much more than just teacher-student type of &nbs ...
This is a power point presentation with eleven useful question beginning with have you ever. The presentation has a lot of pictures related with each question. The aim of this is ...
Short biography of 4 famous people. Two Americans and two Brazilians (Barak Obama, Robin Williams, Wagner Moura and Valeska Popozuda). Great way to provide reading and speaking opportunity an ...
This worksheet contains 2 exercises and a roleplaying game. It´s made for beginners, but could be also a good practice for elementary students. In the first exercise students review the pric ...
This Powerpoint is a fun way to build a sense of community amongst the students in your classroom. You can have students explain their answers, or you can have them pair up with someone in their ...
This worksheet is a kind of speaking practice. Provided for teenagers, especially the first level of secondary school students. It's designed with some pictures in order to give a stimulus for the ...
These worksheets can be used as a speaking activity. Students work in pairs and take turns in asking the questions. It's good if you as a teacher to circulate and monitor their work. At the end, h ...
These are activity cards. You can use them to practice speaking skilsl with your students at the same time revising vocabulary connected with shopping. My students love this game! They get into pa ...
In groups of 4 to 6, students share information provided them on strips of paper to complete various details about five homeowners. As the information given on each strip does not provide suffici ...
In pairs each student receives one of two family trees along with a fact sheet that corresponds to his/her partner's family tree. Students take turns sharing information so that they can each com ...
Students complete an inventory of likes and dislikes on a provided sheet. The teacher then collects the unnamed sheets, mixes them up and redistributes the sheets to students in groups. Each per ...
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