Speaking skills: Lesson plans

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• Speaking skills: Bang, bang!

  This inventive speaking skills lesson by Karen Richardson gives students practice in describing an incident.

• Speaking skills: Cars

  Students learn vocabulary related to cars and participate in discussions about cars.

• Speaking skills: Get out of the classroom 1

  Ideas for outdoor lessons which will have an element of English in them.

• Speaking skills: Get out of the classroom 2

  Ideas for outdoor lessons which will have an element of English in them.

• Speaking skills: Limericks

  This entertaining skills lesson by Paul Ashe introduces the framework of a limerick and provides students with practice in writing their own limericks.

• Speaking skills: Stereotypes

  This lesson by Karen Richardson gives students practice in talking about the mildly controversial topic of stereotypes.

• Speaking skills: What motivates you?

  Students discuss different kinds of motivation and what motivates them as learners.

• Speaking skills: Amazon and Harry Potter

  

  Students retell each other a short news item and then discuss issues related to books, reading and online purchasing.

• Speaking skills: Are you a learner of the future?

  

  Students talk about possible future developments in education and decide whether or not they are already a ‘learner of the future’.

• Speaking skills: Functional language: Changing the topic

  

  Students learn expressions for responding in conversation and changing the topic, then play a discussion game.

• Speaking skills: Functional language: Giving a compliment

  

  Reviewing and extending positive adjectives, giving and receiving compliments. Students discuss when it is appropriate to give compliments in their culture.

• Speaking skills: Functional language: Riding the metro

  

  A functional language speaking lesson by Lindsay Clandfield, where students practise giving directions for a metro system in a city.

• Speaking skills: Happy New Year!

  

  Three activities suitable for your first classes of the New Year, or if you are starting a new course in January.

• Speaking skills: Stuff and things

  

  Students practise using all-purpose words like stuff and things to ask for things they don’t know the word for in English.

• Speaking skills: Summer stories

  

  Students prepare and tell each other an anecdote relating to the summer.

• Speaking skills: Teaching functions: Review and needs analysis

  

  A functions review and needs analysis where students match a selection of functional questions and responses.

• Speaking skills: Thank you!

  

  A short speaking lesson by Lindsay Clandfield on the theme of thanking.

• Speaking skills: World Cup mania!

  

  A speaking lesson by Lindsay Clandfield for students to discuss issues related to football and the World Cup.