This document discusses teaching English speaking skills. It defines teaching speaking as helping students to produce English sounds accurately, use stress and intonation properly, select appropriate words for different situations, organize thoughts logically, and express themselves fluently with few pauses. It recommends discussions, role-plays, simulations, interviews and other activities to practice speaking. It also explains that speaking involves mastery of mechanics, functions, and social-cultural rules of the language. Communicative language teaching provides authentic practice to develop these skills for real-world communication.