Get students out of their seats and interacting with one another using one of Busy Teachers 408 mingling activity worksheets. They are free and a great way to increase student speaking time. This mingling worksheet, for example, focuses on talking about time and routines. It includes some key target vocabulary for beginners and could easily be used as a warm-up, practice, or review activity. If your class is studying a different topic, you can simply search for a worksheet that is more appropriate for your students.
Mingling activities are important because they increase the amount of time individual students have to practice speaking while building their self confidence. Often students are too shy to speak in front of the entire class but since the whole classroom is buzzing with voices during these types of exercises, students are more willing to express themselves.
Most mingling exercises should be fast-paced so keep them short.
Students must then work hard to complete their objective within the time limit and will be less easily distracted. Mingling activities are difficult to monitor so be sure that students have plenty of practice using the target structures and vocabulary before starting.
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This worksheet can be used for improving your students speaking skills. It contains different kinds of questions about different topics. It's appropriate for elementary and pre- intermediate ...
This worksheet can be used for improving your students speaking skills. It contains different kinds of questions about different topics. It's appropriate for elementary and pre- intermediate ...
This is an activity that can be used for any level, as you can adjust it to be more or less complex according to your students' abilities. The phrases should be cut up into cards (preferably lamin ...
A great speaking exercise to get both your shy and bold students enthusiastic about speaking English. The goal of the game is to make a 45 second improvised speech on a random topic (98 topic ...
An easy but fun activity to get students speaking in your IELTS Speaking class and you just need two dice. Get the students to roll the dice to choose their topic, then give them a minute to prepa ...
I've designed these cards for units 4, 5, and 6 of Backpack 3 speaking practice. You can put the students into pairs or small groups and have them ask and answer. Hope it helps.
I have designed this worksheet for Top Notch 2A classes. It includes several questions for the first unit of this book, Greeting and Customs. It is designed for pre-intermediate and upper levels. ...
I have designed these cards for my starter classes. It includes different subjects including colors, jobs, foods, animals, and action verbs. Hope it works.
I have designed this worksheet for speaking classes. It has got six speaking cards based on Top Notch 2A units. It is designed for pre-Intermediate and upper levels. Hope you find it useful. :-)
This is an ice breaker for elementary level. Have the ss complete the card and then put them all in an empty box. Students choose a card randomly and read it aloud for the class. Next, they have t ...
Students need to guess the top word without using any of the 'taboo' words underneath it. I find this activity very useful in vocabulary and self-confidence building. Divide your class into two te ...
Using one or two decks of cards and the questions sheet ss pick a card and answer the corresponding questions. Ss are awarded points for their answers. Good for fluency warmers, fillers etc. Adapt ...
A popular and engaging game involving communication and trust. The task is very flexible, works for groups of various types and sizes, and can be adapted to youth, adults, corporate, etc. Cr ...
This game is designed to make your students talk and exchange information. The materials used are expressions coined by Shakespeare which have become widely used ("love is blind", "as dead as a a ...
Speaking activity. To begin with, it would be good to discuss/present the genres of literature. Afterwords, students look at the questions provided and talk to a friend (friends) about reading. Af ...
This worksheet is very interactive when you want your students to stand up and speak up. They have to find different clasmates that have done different things in life. Once they find all the ...
Environment lesson for a group class. Used it while teaching a discussion based class as good stimulus for discussion (the video) and gave people more ideas about how to talk about global warming. ...
The worksheet has to be cut in different parts. Each part is a category. In groups of two or three, the students have to find lots of words for each category. E.g., find something that is blue: th ...
Pass around candy and tell each student to choose 2-5 pieces of candy. After they have chosen their candy, you will instruct them to take cards, based on the type of the candy they have chosen, an ...
This is a power point that I have designed with 10 questions related to Easter for advanced students who want to practice their speaking. Students will be able to answer the questions freely and t ...
It's a PowerPoint presentation. Skill/s: speaking and listening. Tell students to pick a number. Randomly, they will have to choose one topic out of 4 and speak about it. Ideally, there shou ...
The comedy show "Mind your English" is the perfect tool when teaching English. The segment can be found on Youtube (the link is included into worksheet). It's a simple worksheet with vocabulary fr ...
For elementary students and above. This is a lexis worksheet for various expressions that include the word 'play'. There is a lead-in section to elicit prior knowledge, a gap-fill section and a se ...
This is a great lesson that uses a short sitcom clip (3 minutes) and helps students practice English in a fun natural way. Lesson file includes: -Video Link -Script -Vocabulary -Fill in the B ...
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