The document outlines various activities to enhance speaking skills in students, including conversation, dramatization, group discussions, storytelling, debate, interview techniques, role-play, extempore speech, and descriptive speaking. Each activity is intended to foster spontaneous expression, improve communication abilities, and deepen understanding of the subject matter. The strategies emphasize active participation and creativity in language use, promoting both confidence and proficiency in verbal communication.

1. Activities to develop
speaking skill
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2. Conversation
• Conversation is one of the
techniques to improve speaking
skill.
• It establishes a link between
language and situation.
• The teacher has to interact with
the students and make them
express their thoughts and ideas
spontaneously.
• There should be topic for the two
persons to Converse over it.
• So the teacher has to begin the
conversation with the topic that
has a lot of be discursed over.

3. Dramatisation
• Putting some prose or poetry into
living actions
• Some persons playa a role and there
we have dramatic view of situation
• Number of scenes in prose can be
presented in dramatic form
• Involves acting, gestures, movements,
facial expressions and dialogue
expressions.
• Tell the class a story and tell each of
the groups , in which the class is
divided to enact it
• Bring the student's comprehension of
the subject matter.
• Improves good speech habits,
pronounciation,communative skills
• Develops in the students love and
appreciation for literature.

4. Group discussion
• Handy tool for language teacher to make every
student participate in the classroom activity.
• The teacher give a topic and separate questions
related to the topic to each group.
• Lead by a monitor and they have to discuss the
topic , everyone should express his thoughts and
opinions.
• The collection of points at the end should be
coverently order to give a complete and perfect
answer.
• At the end the leader of the group report the
answers .
• It will make the students to improve their
speaking skill to a great extent.
• It develops interactive skill resourcefulness
group activity.

5. Story telling
• Children are very much interested and
attracted towards stories.
• Students are asked to complete short
stories that are finished partly by the
teachers.
• Imagination and creative power of the
students are improved by the stories.
• Story telling can be made through
picture charts.
• at lower classes the students can be
asked to narrate the story by sequence
of pictures.
• As the students reproduce sentence
from memory the skill of structureing
the sentences develops.

6. Debate
• Important co- curricular activity which
will improve the speaking skill of a
learner.
• One topic is a main issue
• Some choose to speak in its favour and
some present is views against it.
• The teacher take the students to
situation where the students may debate
over the issue.
• This type of activity will make the
students to participate in impress school
and inter school competitions.
• The listening abilities and comprehension
can be improved.
• The students learn how to organise their
ideas in a systematic way.

7. Interview
• The teacher and the students assume
different roles.
• students are instructed and given
adequate information .
• The interview should be conducted in an
informal manner.
• The teacher should ask question in such a
way that the students to express most
enthusiastically.
• The teacher should not ask such questions
that can lead to one word answers or
more gestures.
• The student should be made to speak in a
detail manner.
• Interview gives the students a well
modulated to accuracy and speed of
speech.
• The student speech becomes neither to
loud no to meet and neither to first not
too slow.

8. Role-Play and classroom dialogues
• Drama- like activity in which the students take
different roles in a typical situation.
• Interactional aspect of speaking.
• Children take events delete and pleasure in
role playing.
• Show their interest to add the role of different
characters in a play or story.
• Assume different roles and talk if there
actually performing those roles in real life.
• Give learners practice in how to use language
in different situations.
• Provide opportunities of role playing and ask
the student to speak naturally.
• May be a roll between two or more students.
• Eg. Dialogue between a doctor and patient
,and inspector and complaint etc

9. Extempore speech
• In classrooms extempore speech
competitions can be conducted often.
• Student should be made to participate
eagerly in school competition this will
be a good part.
• As the competitors such competition
generally speak in mother tongue the
English speakers should be motivated
and encouraged.
• This will bring great scope for them to
develop they speaking competency.
• the competitions are meant to
measure the competitors depth of
knowledge rather than his
resourcefulness and eloquence.

10. Description
• It is an art and it is unique in natue.
• It needs some creative power.
• Describe something orally,student is
expected to speak in detail.
• Reveal the outstanding attribute of the
object ,things ,incidence happenings
,persons to be described.
• Describe about their village town
School that place name visited.
• The ideas can be expressed
spontaneously in a sequence by them.
• The teacher giving a model description
and provide them with Adequate
promts and hints.