Speaking skills

Group drills​

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• Work done by a group of people in collaboration.
• Repetitive exercises conducted in a group

Dialogue Practice

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• The forms of dialogue being exchanged
• The types of punctuation used
• The setting of the conversation
• The language spoken by the characters

is a visual puzzle where two images that are presented side by side

I have a middle school student who always tries to dominate speaking activities

It is always the same people who speak

• Feedback

• Organizing pair work

• First language monitors

• Correcting errors

My middle school students start speaking in their first language

I do not want to stop my middle school students as they are speaking even if they are making mistakes

I cannot ask all my middle school students to present/perform their role-plays

Productive skills are

Find someone who is an activity

• find someone in the class who matches a description or knows certain information

• run and touch an object that matches that description