Speaking Activities

Why do we ask students to do speaking activities in class?

• Because we want them not to be ashamed.

• To achieve their speaking skils and use the language they know.

• To make them enjoy the course.

How can we make beginers and advanced level students to be motivated and feel confortable with the speaking tasks?

• Encouraging them to complete the tasks.

• Giving them different activities to practice.

• Matching the tasks with the level they are in.

Why to use game-like activities to practice speaking?

• To have an idea of how well everyone is doing.

• To make the students feel relaxed and enthusiastic about speaking.

• To compleate the activities in a funy way.

Which activities can we use to build the speaking habbit?

• Select a topic and make the students talk about it.

  Writting sentences and making the studens to read them out loud.

• Students have to write a letter, or about a specific topic.

How can interviews be used for speaking activities?

• Interviews can be used to know the students interests.

• Because in an interview we have to answer different questions.

• Interviews can be used to practice specific language items or for more communicative speaking activities.

What activity can we use to practise a specific language item?

• Dictate

• Interview

• Reading

We can ask our students to use it, like we use it in real life when we imagine conversations we could have.

• Positive thougths

• Inter voice

• Imagination

How can we make our students feel highly motivated and successful in a discussion activity?

• With a well organized activity

• Telling them what to say

• Playing a game before the activity

This activity works because the students have to speak in order to reach

a decision.

• Reaching a consensus

• Participation in class

• Storytelling

Why do we have to be prompter pushing the students forward, have to take part in the activity as a participant, and at the end of a speaking activity we need to give feedback.

• To help the students

• Because it is the teacher´s role

• To make the students understand the topics