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Some more speaking activities
Do you teach speaking with few or no materials? Here are some speaking activities that you can try with your classes.
Some speaking activities
Here are some more activities, some of which you can use with little or no prepararion. These are activities that I have found by dredging my computer directories. I there fore do not know the sources fo these activities. I would be happy to give any credit where it is due.
Lying: an icebreaker
air off students. [...]
What is meant by automaticity and automatization?
automatic
largely or wholly involuntary, especially as with a reflex
acting or done spontaneously or unconsciously
automatize
to make automatic [noun derivations: automatization the process of making automatic; automaticity the state or condition of being automatic]
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Speaking activity outcomes – a rough guide
Developing ability to describe objects and processes
Responding to various forms of questions and sustained questioning in appropriate contexts
Interacting in real world speaking activities
Performing one way and two-way information tasks
Raising awareness of conversational structure [opening, turn-taking, sustaining a turn, negotiating meaning, nominating a topic, repairing a mistake, linking ideas, adjusting the message by rephrasing, or using [...]
Speaking sub-skills
To complement the posts on speaking, especially regarding curriculum design, I have included a list of speaking sub-skills.
Teaching speaking: fluency or accuracy?
In this post the classroom ideas are marked with a:
Whatever type of approach you intend to use for a particular activity in the classroom, making the differentiation between fluency and accuracy is a very important one.
However, here are some things to think about. From Brumfit…
Just because we are talking about fluency, it does not mean [...]
The characteristics of spoken language
Some courses fail the learners in that they fail to distinguish between spoken and written language. The litmus test for this assertion is to ask whether the syllabus/curriculum treats spoken language as something distinct from written language with its own grammar, syntax and lexicon. If productive skills work is a vehicle for the teaching of [...]
The sequence game
This milling activity is very simple. Each student has a different sequential series written on a strip of paper. Their task is to find the participant wıith the exactly the same sequence as them self. For this to be a speaking and listening task, monitor the learners carefully to ensure they don’t show their [...]
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Teaching Speaking Tactics