Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Teaching speaking
- Discussion activities
- Classroom -or peer-
teaching: trying out activities
- Stage 1: preparation
- Choose an activity in
order of difficulty
- Stage 2: experience
- Do the activity,
doing groups or
even role plays.
- Stage 3: reflection
- After finishing, discuss
or think about
students performace
- Examples
- Describing
pictures
- As how
many things
are in a
picture
- Comments: This is
a simple but
surprising
prodictive activity
for begginer
classes. Make sure
participants
understand that it
is only necessary
to make
contributions
- Pictures
differences
- Students in
pairs, each
member of the
pair has a
different
picture
- Comments: A
well-know
activity which
usually
produces
plenty of
purposeful
question and
answer
exchanges. the
vocabulary is
important here
as not cheat
- Things in
common
- Students sit in pairs,
preferably choosing
as their partenr
someone they do
not know very well,
and talk to find out
as many tings in
common they have
- Comments: an
ice-breaker
activity, which
fosters a feeling
of solidarity by
stressing shared
characteristicts of
participants
- Shopping
list
- Which
things of a
fantasy
would you
choose.
- Comments: An
imaginative fun
activity without
answering simple
things as yes or no.
- Solving a
problem
- The students are told
that they are an
educational advisory
committeewich has to
advice something
- To teenagers,
fairly advanced
learners.
- Other kinds of spoken interaction
- Interactional talk
- Courtesy
- Take leave
begin and end
conversations
- Culture linked,
difficult to explain
the conventions in
foreing language,
teaching and
practising them.
- Long turns
- The ability to speak
as length is one
which adult more
advanced or
academic students
will perhaps need and
therefore needs
cultivating
- Telling stories; telling
jokes, describing a
person in detail;
recounting the plot of
a film, play or book;
giving a short lecture
or talk; arguing a case
for or against a
proposal
- Variated situattions,
feelings, relationships
- Variety of contexts
- Opportunities to try
using target language
- The obvious classroom
activities to use here are
those based on the role
play.
- Ixchel Crespo Hernandez
- LEAIES 2nd III