Speaking skills: Lesson plans
Speaking practice lessons on a wide variety of topics aimed at developing functional language or promoting discussion.


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Speaking skills: Lesson plans
Speaking practice lessons on a wide variety of topics aimed at developing functional language or promoting discussion.
This inventive speaking skills lesson by Karen Richardson gives students practice in describing an incident.
Students learn vocabulary related to cars and participate in discussions about cars.
Ideas for outdoor lessons which will have an element of English in them.
Ideas for outdoor lessons which will have an element of English in them.
This entertaining skills lesson by Paul Ashe introduces the framework of a limerick and provides students with practice in writing their own limericks.
This lesson by Karen Richardson gives students practice in talking about the mildly controversial topic of stereotypes.
Students discuss different kinds of motivation and what motivates them as learners.
Students retell each other a short news item and then discuss issues related to books, reading and online purchasing.
Students talk about possible future developments in education and decide whether or not they are already a ‘learner of the future’.
Students learn expressions for responding in conversation and changing the topic, then play a discussion game.
Reviewing and extending positive adjectives, giving and receiving compliments. Students discuss when it is appropriate to give compliments in their culture.
A functional language speaking lesson by Lindsay Clandfield, where students practise giving directions for a metro system in a city.
Three activities suitable for your first classes of the New Year, or if you are starting a new course in January.
Students practise using all-purpose words like stuff and things to ask for things they don’t know the word for in English.
Students prepare and tell each other an anecdote relating to the summer.
A functions review and needs analysis where students match a selection of functional questions and responses.
A short speaking lesson by Lindsay Clandfield on the theme of thanking.
A speaking lesson by Lindsay Clandfield for students to discuss issues related to football and the World Cup.

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