This document discusses tips for teachers to improve students' English speaking skills. It provides reasons why speaking is important, such as to improve overall language skills and communicate effectively. It then gives suggestions for teachers, such as giving equal attention to all students and being patient. Finally, it proposes ways to generate speaking in class, including reminding students to speak loudly and clearly, using only English, telling stories, doing role plays, and varying classroom activities regularly to keep students engaged. The overall goal is to help students gain confidence in speaking and correct mistakes through practice.
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How to set up freer speaking activities to practise English and tips on making them successful.
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How to set up freer speaking activities to practise English and tips on making them successful.
Handout shared during the June 2018 RELO Andes Webinar entitled "Let's Talk! Speaking Activities for Students with a Low Level of English"
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► Main presentation: https://goo.gl/hqfCu8
Encourage your students to talk more using these easy tips, activities, and lessons! This webinar will help you plan easy and effective lessons, creating confident, motivated, English language speakers.
By the end of this webinar, teachers will be able to:
- Understand how speaking activities can help improve all areas of English language study.
- Be able to incorporate four new activities into your class to get your students talking.
- Know the steps for getting the most out of speaking practice time.
- Have a helpful worksheet with all the information and resources you need for many weeks worth of speaking activities.
This webinar for English language teachers was hosted by the Regional English Language Office at the US Embassy in Peru.
► About the speaker:
▪▪ Sara Hendricks has taught English around the world for 12 years. She received her Masters Degree in TESOL from UW River Falls in the USA. She enjoys studying and teaching gender equality in the classroom, rapid vocabulary acquisition and support for indigenous languages. Sara currently lives and teaches in a small town in Mexico with her husband and three kids.
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Roughly 30 teachers were involved with the 90 minute workshop.
The slides contain information about my school, concepts, pedagogies & activities focused on engaging low performing students, as well as my experiences/programmes carried out in my remote school.
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Handout shared during the June 2018 RELO Andes Webinar entitled "Let's Talk! Speaking Activities for Students with a Low Level of English"
► Find the webinar here: https://youtu.be/452zzK6nqUo
► Main presentation: https://goo.gl/hqfCu8
Encourage your students to talk more using these easy tips, activities, and lessons! This webinar will help you plan easy and effective lessons, creating confident, motivated, English language speakers.
By the end of this webinar, teachers will be able to:
- Understand how speaking activities can help improve all areas of English language study.
- Be able to incorporate four new activities into your class to get your students talking.
- Know the steps for getting the most out of speaking practice time.
- Have a helpful worksheet with all the information and resources you need for many weeks worth of speaking activities.
This webinar for English language teachers was hosted by the Regional English Language Office at the US Embassy in Peru.
► About the speaker:
▪▪ Sara Hendricks has taught English around the world for 12 years. She received her Masters Degree in TESOL from UW River Falls in the USA. She enjoys studying and teaching gender equality in the classroom, rapid vocabulary acquisition and support for indigenous languages. Sara currently lives and teaches in a small town in Mexico with her husband and three kids.
► Find the webinar here: https://youtu.be/452zzK6nqUo
► Subscribe here for new RELO webinars: http://eepurl.com/gZS7r
★ Follow us on social media! ★
▪▪ RELO Andes
: FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/reloandes
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▪▪ US Embassy in Peru
: FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/Peru.usembassy
: TWITTER - http://www.twitter.com/usembassyperu
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: YOUTUBE - http://www.youtube.com/user/USEMBASSYPERU
Lessons from the ♥ of Borneo - TFM Sarawak Regional Event (2015)Jarod Yong
These were the slides I used in the "Lessons from the ♥ of Borneo" workshop during the Teach For Malaysia Sarawak Regional Event 2 on 16 May 2015.
Roughly 30 teachers were involved with the 90 minute workshop.
The slides contain information about my school, concepts, pedagogies & activities focused on engaging low performing students, as well as my experiences/programmes carried out in my remote school.
Read about the workshop here: http://www.jarodyong.com/2015/05/lessons-from-the-heart-of-borneo.html
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2. • Why should students learn to be fluent speakers
• Tips to remember as teachers
• Ways to generate and enhance speaking in English classes
3. . Speaking helps to improve overall language skills
Learning grammar rules and byhearting word lists aren’t enough! You need practice! The best way to
practice regularly is to speak-To convey. (see Wil, n.d)
. To showcase your talents at the best
To present your well written essay, or to read out your creative story, you need to speak well & be fluent.
Hence learning to speak well, makes you confident and more active in class.
. To correct mistakes & misconceptions
Its fine to make mistakes and have some misconceptions as you are learning something new. But its
always better to try and correct those flaws. Speaking is the best way to do it.
. To communicate well
Learning to speak well lets you communicate foreign teachers with ease and also, to understand their
lessons better. The same applies if you have foreign classmates. To be good friends and to help them,
your speaking skills should be good.
4. Tips for Teachers
• Give equal importance to all
Some students will showcase fine and quick progress in speaking. But never neglect the
others. Never tend to prioritize.
• Do not force anyone to speak or go infront of the class
The stricter you get the more unlikely they will be to participate. Instead try your best to
convince and support them to come up and speak.
• Have patience
Each student has a different rate of progress. Some may take a little more time. So, never
give up on anyone.
• Do your best to improve them- make use of good teaching strategies
Try your best to improve their speaking skills. Try to understand each student and figure
out ways help them accordingly.
5. Ways to Generate & Felicitate Speaking
1. Remind students to talk loudly and clearly
Quite often, when students are asked to come and present something to the class,
or asked a question, they feel shy and respond very quietly and slowly. Half of the
class wouldn’t hear anything at all.
Do not let this happen in the class!
Constantly remind them to be loud and clear in their speech.
Still, if they aren’t loud enough, let them REPEAT!
If they go on like this, they will be very unlikely to improve.
Also, everyone in the class should be able to attend to what the speaker has to say.
6. Ways to Generate & Felicitate Speaking
2. Do NOT allow other languages in the class-only ENGLISH!
• A very common problem
• Why are you in the English class? To learn and practice English!
• Encourage them to always talk in English & to never use
native language
• Let them have no fear of mistakes- correct them if they make any
• Don’t let this go on freely in the class. Halt it at once.
• Still if they go on like this, make them repeat
until they use English.
7. Ways to Generate & Felicitate Speaking
3. Story telling & Completion
• Students can create their own stories or tell about a tale they previously heard. Also they can share
riddles and jokes with their classmates.
• As Kayi (n.d) suggests, storytelling is a great way to develop creative thinking . Also it helps
students to express ideas about the charecters and the plot.
• He recommends to begin the class everyday with a few riddles or jokes. In this way the teacher can
address students’ speaking abilities and further, will capture the attention of the class.
• Story completion is also a fun activity to enhance speaking.
• Starting from the teacher, everyone in the class can participate in creating a story. Each will have 2-
3 lines which they can add. They can create their own chaecters nd even have the power to twist
the plot.
8. Ways to Generate & Felicitate Speaking
4. Role Plays
• Fun & collaborative, A great way to enhance speaking skills
• Let students communicate and act up on different social contexts and roles. Also, this is an
opportunity for them to be creative and experience themselves as another person (Arham,
Yassi and Arafah 2016)
• According to their research, students who had learnt speaking through role play, scored
significantly well in their post-test, compared to pre-test
• Students become active learners through roleplays, and thus improve
• their participation in class.
9. Ways to Generate & Felicitate Speaking
5. Vary the classroom activities
To create an effective speaking class, try to introduce something different every week. Let each activity
vary from the other
According to Czaban (n.d), this is a way to lure students into the class and also, a way to get rid of
classroom passivity and boredom.
As the latter suggests, for example, if last week was about book works and discussions, this week can be
focused on role plays, songs, videos – a little more entertainment.
The goal is to make them eager and interested to participate in the class.
10. Ways to Generate & Felicitate Speaking
6. Be Friendly & Obliging
• Make students feel comfortable and welcoming to talk to you and to participate in
the lessons.
• Fluent speaking is not an easy skill to achieve. Students need constant
encouragement and motivation from the teacher.
• As suggested by Czaban, as teachers we should appreciate them
for their efforts.
• We should not force anyone to come up and talk.
• Give frequent compliments.
• Correct their mistakes through a soft friendly approach.
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Hope, www.fluentu.com, https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-
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