Speaking Skill

Teaching speaking

The nature of communication
Spoken language
Receptive Understanding Speaking Productive
Skills Reading Writing skills
Written language

Questions for you
1. Do you enjoy teaching speaking?
Why? Why not?
2. What type of speaking activities do
you do with your students?

Make Classroom Speaking Activities
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Acting from a script
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Information gap: find similarities & differences
between pictures, …
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Discussion
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Interviewing /Questionnaires/ survey
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Simulation & role play
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Quizzes
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Find someone who …

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T needs to set the contexts with several
questions can be asked and answered.
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Designing Speaking Activities
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Introducing oneself / daily monologue
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Making a simple daily conversation.
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Telling a short story.
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Storytelling needs an ending . Without a proper
conclusion the story will be boring
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Pair work needs an information gap so that each S
has a real reason for talking
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Games need a winner because they motivate Ss
through competition
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Brainstorming needs a product and usually it’s
written. It should be sth Ss can work together to
make ( a list of ideas, a story or a poster)
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