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 helps your students to improve their speaking skills, they are going to find out new expressions and linking words for speaking. Hope you find them useful.
This ppt consists of diverse tasks for practising speaking (e.g. picture descriptions, role plays and a mock debate). It can be used for making B2 (or upper-intermediate) level learners speak. The ...
The famous Einstein's Riddle organised in a worksheet, with the reasoning to follow for the teacher. Great for those days when teens don't want to work. It can be used in all sorts of levels, sinc ...
You can start your class using this powerpoint presentation to deal with the topic "How to be green". It will develop a debate among students based on this topic. It starts with questions, leading ...
This ppt is for intermediate or upper-intermediate learners. It focuses on enhancing students' speaking skills and critical thinking. It contains discussion statements, picture descriptions, conve ...
This is a set of 16 cards with curious history facts. Some are true, some are fake. You can use this as a game to see who gets the highest amount of facts right, as a game about convincing others ...
I have created these fake identity cards for my class. I think it's a good practice on forming and answering basic questions. Instructions: cut out the cards - you'll have two sets of cards - ...
List of warm up questions to get teens talking in class, I usually ask some questions that are realted with the day´s lesson. Its great for teens and adults. Many topics to choose from. It h ...
A simple mingling activity, where students swap cards for which jobs they want. The jobs come with a description of a situation, including "your first year was bad". In other words, you are not ju ...
The worksheet has been designed to aid students who are preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate test. It focuses on the speaking activities of the third and forth part of the test. The test ...
The 5th of November being "Anti-Bullying Day" in France this worksheet will help start discussion with your pupils. The sentences are myths and facts about bullying like : "Bullying is a normal pa ...
This worksheet aims at students of English who are going to be sitting for the Cambridge First Certificate. It covers questions that can be asked in the first part of the speaking test. The questi ...
This is a powerpoint I use to practise the FCE speaking parts 2 and 3 with my students. All the students can particpate in the descriptions and discussions in general. It is a whole class exercis ...
This is a sequence about tourism in Paris for Halloween. Students describe the scary attraction, make a brochure and a Halloween mask! They are tourist guides. They can use the indicative, imperat ...
This PowerPoint was prepared for a conversation club about films. Students ask questions to each other, have a debate about sequels and create a film idea in groups. It is easily adaptable and it ...
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 ...
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