Welcome to a special section of Busy Teacher where you can find some speaking exercises with the following verbs: say, tell, speak. Right now there are 69 such worksheets available such as this one. It is designed to get students talking with one another and introducing themselves. There are a number of activities with directions provided both on the worksheet and in the worksheet description online. With the exception of the temperament vocabulary, this is a rather simple worksheet for pre-intermediate and intermediate learners. You may consider editing that particular section to make it more appropriate for your lower level learners. If your students have already completed their introductions, consider using a different worksheet in your class. Speaking activities are so important in ESL classrooms since students need lots of practice with pronunciation and communicating in English. There are a wide variety of speaking exercises that you can use such as model dialogues, role plays, and interview activities. Using a variety of activities will keep students interested and engaged while also maximizing their practice time. Some activities can be done in pairs, in groups, and even as a class. Your class size may help you decide how best to group your students for speaking activities. Be sure to give students a chance to present material to the class too.
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Who amongst us does not carry fond memories of a visit to the circus when we were young? A circus is a fascinating visual experience which gets etched deep into our memory. I have used the theme o ...
I made this bingo keeping in mind a few things. Children use a lot of stationery/school supplies items every day in the school, but they do not know the correct names of them or the correct pronu ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation about the correct pronunciation of the English alphabet in both American accent and Great Britain accent. It can help with pronuncation of the alphabet for early ...
This is a worksheet which I made for my conversation club lesson. First, I gave these advertising techniques. Because it contains example photos for each technique, I think it is very catchy for y ...
Worksheet that gets students in a conversation class to mingle with each other. It focuses on things Korean students would find easy to discuss, but can easily be adapted to students from any othe ...
These are story fragments with questions. You can print them out of display them for the whole class. Discuss questions. Then write the rest of the story. If you can't answer a question, ignor ...
List of common greetings and farewells to use in conversations. It has both formal and informal questions and probable responses. It can be used as a helpful handout for the students when they are ...
24 general questions to cut out and have students ask each other. This was very useful because the topics are varied and random, containing different structures, so it's good to get people speakin ...
Six pages of general questions to cut out and have students ask each other. Topics are very general, varied and random, so I usually use the questions as a warmer or a first class to get people sp ...
It's a pair work exercise to go over vocabulary dealing mainly with numbers (time - money - ordinal numbers) but also question words. After the pairwork exchange, you can evaluate the students or ...
A fun whole class activity for the first day of class! It stirs up conversation and makes your students comfortable with each other. It can also be used as a warmer or filler when you feel the nee ...
This is a speaking activity using present simple in which students survey their classmates about household chores. Students write their classmates names in the top row of boxes. With each classma ...
This powerpoint presentation can be used as a get-to-know-you or icebreaker activity with a new or existing set of students. It is a great way to learn about your students' likes and dislikes and ...
This is a game I often use with my students, and it works well every time. The file contains two pages, one with pictures of ten famous cities and the other with short ad-like descriptions of the ...
Over a hundred printable Taboo Game cards with template for beginner and intermediate students. The objective of the game is for a player to have his/her partner(s) guess the word on his/her card ...
This is a Bingo to discuss good habits & manners with children. Along with playing the Bingo at every call the teacher can ask students to comment on the phrase called out. She can also discus ...
A great teacher-friendly speaking activity for low levels working on Time/ Questions/ 3rd person singular Simple Present. Teachers can choose the best question formation to suit. Expand by havin ...
This worksheet has 10 situations for discussion. Students should be divided into two teams. The captain of one team gives the situation to the member of the opponent team. He has to listen careful ...
This powerpoint presentation is about animals. It can be used for article in book Project 2, Tom Hutchinson, p. 28. It practises using present continuous tense, there is/ there are, vocabulary abo ...
The PPt is to introduce the children to various situations related to habits. Each slide was shown and the children were asked to describe the situation and the words/phrases related to hab ...
This power point was designed to practice students' speaking on Modals or Auxiliary Verbs, as well as to help them differentiating the function of modal verb. There are 20 questions slides for you ...
A Revision exercise for Present continuous and the verb "to be" in two parts. Can be used for Speaking or Grammar revision. Students or teacher can ask questions to elicit negative form answers. ...
I made this PPT for my children while discussing the different tourist spots in India. These are the Famous Landmarks Of India too. I took the Indian political map alongside and asked the children ...
I made this Bingo on Habits For children to revise with them all the good and bad habits related to various situations. First the PPT on Habits For Children was shown. It was an interactive sess ...
Get your kids to start talking about paintings and art, by asking simple questions such as "What could be different in the painting?". Encourage them to explore the limits of their imagination by ...
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