Speaking skills are a collection of abilities that enable you to vocally communicate your ideas and thoughts in a way that conveys exactly what you want to say. Speaking abilities have always played a significant role in our professional and personal life in many ways.

1. Activities to Improve
Speaking Skills
WE LIVE IN A MINIMAL COMMUNICATION AGE WHERE THE RATE OF DIRECT
COMMUNICATION HAS DRASTICALLY DECREASED AND WE AS HUMANS HAVE MOSTLY BEEN
RELYING ON INDIRECT MEANS OF COMMUNICATION SUCH AS SOCIAL MEDIA, TELEPHONE,
ETC, AND THIS PHENOMENON IS BECOMING THE CAUSE OF FRAGILE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG
PEOPLE.

2. Sadly such a phenomenon is also visible among children who are unable to communicate in a proper way
with people around them, they are often seen as hesitant and not able to communicate fluently.
The development of communication skills among children is very important as it becomes the basis of
various life skills that the child has to learn for a better future.
Effective communication skills would help the child in developing a personality that would help him
stand out from the rest of the people.
Not every child would be interested in engagingin traditional methods like reading books or having
simple exercises like Just a minute sessions.
That's where various communication activities come which are engaging and educating at the same time.

3. Major Activities to Develop
Communication skills
Here are a few activities that would help in developing the communication skills of children-
Role-playing games - it helps in developing communication skills at a greater level. It can be played by dividing
the children into different groups and asking individuals to role play anyone, for example, their parents or
teachers, asking them questions related to the role they are performing and giving them situations to enact,
through this, you will be able to analyze the speaking skills, body language and the level of confidence of
children.
Back-back game - this activity helps in developing speaking as well as listening skills of Children. Here children
have to be divided into teams of two and make them sit opposite to each other facing there back, now chance by
chance one person would describe something and other has to carefully listen and answer it by speaking or drawing.

4. Picture description activity - Through the simple activity of pictures description children can
analyze closely and know the depth of things, it would help them better express their thoughts. This
would help them in real life too as they would closely be able to look into certain situations and
express their thoughts on them.
Group debates - Simple debates are also a great tool for improvement of communication skills,
through group discussion children won't be hesitant to speak as he/she would be part of a group and
they would also get exposure to a number of opinions on the same topic.
Spontaneous speech - Giving children any topic or letting them choose a topic of their choice and
asking them to speak on it for a few minutes would help in improving their public speaking skills to
a great instance. They would build confidence and would understand the proper methods of framing
words.

5. Listening activity - A simple listening activity can be very effective for children in order to improve
their communication skills as they would grasp the certain type of sentences and points easily which
they would use later, through listening activity their concentration power.
Final words
These are some simple activities that would be beneficial for improving the communication skills of
children and benefit them in building a successful career.
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