Speaking & Listening for ESL teachers. This is for an intensive English Training programme in Gyeonggi-do South Korea. The presentations range from Observation classes, to teacher in-service sessions.

1. Listening & Speaking

4. Today’s objectives
Sharpening speaking and listening skills
Speak to one another on chosen topics
using descriptive language and correct
grammar
Participate in two activities that
integrate speaking and listening

5. Points to remember
When narrating/telling a story, or
having conversation, give as many
details as possible to describe
people, places and events or give
directions and instructions, which
are forms of descriptions.
Both similarities and contrasts
should be included.

6. Don’t forget your grammar!

7. Descriptive adjectives

8. Descriptive adjectives:
Words that function to
describe nouns. Specifically,
adjectives describe the
action, state, or quality that
nouns refer to.

9. Adverbs

10. Adverbs
Adverbs: Used at the
end of a sentence to
modify the verb.
Used to modify
adjectives. Are easily
recognized because
they mostly end in -
ly.

11. Linking Words

12. Linking words
Linking words
help you to
connect ideas
and sentences,
so that people
can follow your
ideas.

13. Activity I: Colony
It is the year 2345. The earth has
been destroyed in a nuclear war. The
survivors have decided to stat a new
colony on the planet Ashah.
Unfortunately there is only room in
the spaceship for FIVE people. Of
the ten people listed, which five do
you think should go?

14. A female Caucasian teacher, 25 10
people
A female Asian athlete, 22
A female Black nurse, 32, who sometimes gets depressed
A female Caucasian biologist, 28, with an artificial arm
A female Hispanic artist, 20, who is pregnant
A male Caucasian musician, 40, married to the artist
A male Aboriginal carpenter, 25
A male Asian soldier, 23
A male Caucasian doctor, who is homosexual 5
A male Caucasian, 45, who is racist
spaces

15. Activity II: Describe & Draw