Speaking is a productive skill and a skill that learners fear most. Effective strategies such as drills, dialogues, role play will be used by the teachers to expose learners to the language and to help them to develop their language ability and develop their confidence in using it.
Speaking activities provide rehearsal opportunities-chances to practise real-life speaking in the safety of classroom. Speaking tasks also provide feedback for both teacher and students. Goos speaking activities make students autonomous langauge users.
The activities given here are presented to foster better speaking.
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05-11-2018
At The Supermarket: Speaking Role Play Activity
At the Supermarket
Role A: Shopper
Role B: Clerk.
A: Excuse me, here are the (plural food item)?
B: They're all in the front, near the entrance.
A: Do you ...
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04-11-2018
Speaking Role Play Activities: Shopping For Food At The Supermarket
The Supermarket
Role A: Shopper
Role B: Clerk
A: Excuse me, where are the (plural food item)?
B: The...
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04-11-2018
Speaking Role Play Activities: Shopping General Products
The General Store
Role Play
Role A: Shopper
Role B: Clerk
A: Excuse me, where is the (product) department?...
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04-11-2018
Speaking Role Play Activities: Shopping Electronic Items
The Electronics Shop
Electronic Products Vocabulary
refrigerator
microwave oven
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03-11-2018
Speaking Role Play Activities: Shopping Clothes
Shopping Role Play Activities
Clothing Items Vocabulary
apron
attire
ball gown
baseball cap
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20-01-2016
Make/Do Questions Or Statements
'Make' or 'Do'?
It can be hard to decide when to use 'make' or 'do' in English. Here's some help.
1: We use 'make' when we create or construct something. For...
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14-11-2015
Keeping Fit
The following is a simple poem by Shawna Teper, which can be taken as a topic for conversational practice in the classroom. It mentions activities you can do to keep you fit. After reading the poem, the teacher and students can engage in speaking practice usi...
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31-10-2015
Silent Consonants
Some consonants like “b”,”g”. “gh”, “h”, “k”, “l”, “n”, “s”, “t” and “w” are silent in some words.
Examples: bright, k...
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30-10-2015
Homophones
Intermediate level
Exercise 1
Homophones are words which sound alike but are different in meaning.
Write a homophone for each of the following words.
reign –
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An English teacher in Canada Mr. Noble Augustine is currently working with Calgary Catholic Immigration Society. He started his career as a teacher in English in 2001 after completing his M A in English from St. Berchmans College, Changanacherry .He secured the first rank for M Phil from School of Letters, Mahathma Gandhi University in 2003. His subjects of interest are Theory and Practice of Translation, Modern and Postmodern poetry, Postcolonial Writing, Literary theory, and Communicative English. He has presnted many academic papers in various national and international seminars. Gothic Romance: Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Moby Dick: A study in Megalomania, The Comic Paradise: A Rereading of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest, Politics and Geography in the Poetry of Kamala Das, The politics of Deconstruction, Rasa and Dhwani: the Essence of Eastern Aesthetics, The Trend of Multi-generic Parody in Malayalam Fiction:A Reading of Contemporary Short Stories in Malayalam. Facilitation Techniques for Adult Language Teaching etc, to name a few. He has translated into English Aalakampadi (The Escort) a novel by B Murali, a well-known writer in Kerala, India . He worked as lecturer in English in two Libyan Universities: Omar al Mokhtar University, and University of Bengazi , where he also chaired the committee of Quality Assurance, Assessment and Accreditation. He guided and supervised the dissertation of Undergraduate Students and chaired the Viva Voce Examination. . He has also trained, supervised and assessed teacher education students in their practical teaching. In 2011 he obtained his certificate as a Teacher of English as a Second Langauge from Oxford Seminars. He spends his free time in volunteering as the Financial Secretary of Knights of Columbus and as the president of St.Mary's Family Unit in the parish of Mother Teresa Syro Malabar Church, Calgary, Alberta.