Speaking
A vast selection of winning lesson plans on speaking including practise on ordering a pizza, delivering film criticism and speed dating.
Speaking winning lessons
Lesson Share: Socializing
Gary Jones wins the Lesson Share competition with a fabulous lesson plan to help students practise making small talk.
Speaking: A round table talk about the environment
To develop speaking skills; to reinforce the vocabulary on the topic; to encourage the students to think over and discuss the problems of the environment.
Speaking: Adopt Ivan
This winning lesson by Daniel Barber gives students practice in offering opinions, agreeing and disagreeing.
Speaking: Alien negotiations
This winning lesson by Magnus Coney incorporates an imaginative role-play to practise the first conditional.
Speaking: Animals and endangered species
Fari Greenaway proves that animal magic isn't just for kids with a winning upper intermediate lesson that practises animal vocabulary and new verbs of movement.
Speaking: Answering awkward questions
Caroline Entwistle wins the Lesson Share competition with a fun academic speaking lesson that equips students preparing for a presentation with some useful phrases for dealing with awkward questions.
Speaking: Blackboard baseball
Students use their textbooks, class notes, previous quizzes, etc. to come up with the questions and answers. Great way to review for mid-term (or semester) exam.
Speaking: Blankety Blank
To practise and reinforce vocabulary of emotions; pronunciation practice.
Speaking: Caravan or cruise liner?
Camilla Mayhew wins the Lesson Share competition with this simple but effective idea for students to learn something about their new classmates and teacher.
Speaking: Cartoon stories
Provides practice of: listening, speaking, reading, writing, present tense questions, prepositions of place, present continuous for describing what’s happening now.
Speaking: Character adjectives game
To improve vocabulary when describing character, especially when dealing with literature; speaking, giving examples, exchanging information, assessment.
Speaking: Christmas is coming
Board game designed to improve fluency and build vocabulary by encouraging students to speak in small groups.
Speaking: Circles of similarity
'Getting to know you' activity to practice agreeing and disagreeing.
Speaking: Collaborative story writing
Students review vocabulary on a chosen topic, write a number of stories collectively, review the use of verb tenses in a narrative, and discuss their choice of tenses, then edit and correct their own and each other’s work.
Speaking: Comparing and contrasting
A winning lesson by Bronagh Mc Laughlin and Gabby Hewitt to improve learners' ability to compare and contrast cities using comparatives and superlatives.
Speaking: Computer vocabulary game
A communication activity that combines general speaking with the acquisition of computer terminology.
Speaking: Dictionary bluff
A definitions games that involves all four skills.
Speaking: Dreams
To become familiar with definitions, collocations and idioms related to the concept of dreams.
Speaking: Drugs
To develop team work, fluency practice, modals, ‘should’ and ‘must’ + 'be'.
Speaking: Eliciting Columbo style
Teaches a technique that will help high level students get other people to volunteer the vital vocabulary they are dredging for in their overworked minds.
Speaking: Film interview
Students interview each other about their film preferences. Practice includes adjectives describing emotions and -ed and -ing forms.
Speaking: First class mingle
Mingling speaking activity. Students speak to everyone in the class and find out as much information as possible about each other.
Speaking: Guessing game
Natalia Pellati presents a guessing game designed to help students practise the present continuous.
Speaking: In search of 'good' British food
A lesson plan on British cuisine. Students use the internet to research the culture of British food.
Speaking: Interrupting and disagreeing politely
Simon Mumford wins the Lesson Share competition with this original idea for students to learn to interrupt and disagree politely.
Speaking: Inventions
The main objective is speaking fluency, but also comparative and superlative adjectives and modal verbs of speculation (could be, might be…)
Speaking: Lateral thinking stories
An entertaining lesson involving predicting the end of funny stories. Aims to practice Yes/No questions.
Speaking: Learning styles
A lesson by Fari Greenway to encourage learners to consider their own and each other’s different learning styles. The lesson can be used to various extents for learners from pre-intermediate upwards. Advanced learners can go on to debate teaching methods and learning styles that they find most effective.
Speaking: Love and marriage
Vocabulary development and lots of discussion on a topic that everyone likes talking about. Functions include giving advice.
Speaking: Making arrangements
This winning lesson by Claire Gibbs practises functional language for making plans.
Speaking: Making conversation
Develop students’ conversation skills by making appropriate responses and follow-up questions.
Speaking: Making offers
Simon Mumford wins the Lesson Share competition with this lesson for students to practise using I'll for making offers.
Speaking: Man and wife
To practise a wide range of question forms. To review a variety of tenses depending on the questions, but mainly present simple.
Speaking: Mission impossible - secret phrasal verbs
To use phrasal verbs in context.
Speaking: Multiple choice board game
A very simple game for practising multiple choice questions.
Speaking: Murder in the classroom
Students take on roles in a murder mystery game and work together to discover the identity and motive of the murderer.
Speaking: My perfect partner
Develop adjectives describing personality and physical characteristics.
Speaking: Odd jobs
Walton Burns wins the Lesson Share competition with a fun game that practises asking questions and broadens job-related vocabulary.
Speaking: Ordering a pizza
A roleplay lesson for elementary students. Functional language covered: requests, 'Can I have...?', 'I'd like...'. Target vocabulary includes numbers, money and food.
Speaking: Paralanguage
An interesting lesson on paralanguage: ouch!, sssh!, oops.
Speaking: Party, party, party!
A winning lesson plan by Rachel Lunan that will really get students talking, perfect for an end-of-term conversation class.
Speaking: Political party time
Genevieve White wins the competition for a second time with a speaking lesson to fuel a political debate.
Speaking: Reforming education
A lesson plan about improving educational systems, based on clustering.
Speaking: Reported speech
Fari Greenaway's winning lesson revises reported speech, introducing a fun mingling activity to help make the structure memorable.
Speaking: Sentence structure game
A card game for revising vocabulary, sentence structure and word order.
Speaking: Speed-dating
To practise speaking and revise adjectives to describe character; revise question forms.
Speaking: St Valentine's board game
To improve students’ fluency by speaking in small groups and to build their vocabulary.
Speaking: SuDoku lesson
To provide fun and meaningful practice for modals of prediction using a SuDoku puzzle.
Speaking: Taboo for English learners
A team game for vocabulary and language functions revision.
Speaking: Talking about a friend
To practise the use of gerunds when talking about likes or dislikes, e.g. 'I love travelling'. To extend and use adjectives of personality in context, e.g. friendly/unfriendly, talkative/quiet, lazy/hard-working.
Speaking: Telling an anecdote
Gabrielle Jones wins the Lesson Share competition with an imaginative speaking activity to help students practise telling anecdotes.
Speaking: The bargain hunters
To negotiate the sale of various second-hand and antique items in a market or shop.
Speaking: The internet dilemma
To raise students’ awareness of the dangers of the internet and to think about ways of ensuring their safety when meeting cyber-friends in real life.
Speaking: The job interview
A fun speaking lesson where students role play a job interview situation.
Speaking: The liberation of the garden gnomes
In this stimulating, fun lesson, students read a text and then debate the topic of garden gnomes.
Speaking: The lost property office
A role play for elementary students. A simple lesson plan for practising questions such as 'What is it made of?', 'How big is it?' etc.
Speaking: The Superfreaks
Dimitra Eleftheriou-Ernst rocks our world with an imaginative role-play about a fictional heavy metal band to clinch her third Lesson Share victory.
Speaking: Three Brothers
A winning lesson from Matthew English who has used fabulous illustrations as the springboard for a fun lesson on adjectives, comparatives and superlatives.
Speaking: Transaction tennis
Describing sports
Speaking: Travel and transport
A winning lesson plan by Fari Greenaway and Lisa Dold, to improve learners' ability to buy tickets for a journey, to practise listening for specific information and to revise transport vocabulary.
Speaking: Travel trouble
This board game provides an opportunity for students to practice various functions that have been covered in recent lessons.
Speaking: Verbal boxing
Matt Bryer's winning lesson teaches language useful for debating and allows students to indulge in a (regulated) war of words.
Speaking: Weird science
Introduces and provides fluency practice for character adjectives. This is a good ice-breaker lesson for first classes.
Speaking: What's in a name?
Aims to extend vocabulary and boost confidence. This is an exercise for the first lesson with a new group: a really creative ice-breaker.
Speaking: What's your problem?
To practise giving advice and suggestions using should and shouldn’t.
Speaking: Where would you find…?
Introductory exercise to familiarize students with the different sections of an English newspaper. Listening and speaking and practice with prepositions.
Speaking: Working with pictures
Asking questions, listening, making notes, using notes to complete a task.
Speaking: Would I lie to you?
Josh Taylor wins the competition with a devious speaking activity that is perfect for a first class.
Young learners: The legend of St Martin
Andreea Pulpea’s winning lesson offers an illuminating way to teach weather-related vocabulary to young learners.
