{"id":2163,"date":"2020-10-21T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2163"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T12:04:52","slug":"speaking-activity-ideas","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/blog\/speaking-activity-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Top 5 Speaking Activity Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >1. Information gap<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this task, a pair of learners have to rely on each other. You can give every pair two pictures with different things missing on each or two completely different pictures. Either way, their task is to ask and answer questions about their partner\u2019s picture, so that they can complete their own picture. With older learners, you can use this activity with missing parts of a conversation or letter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >2. Survey<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask the learners to go around the classroom and interview their classmates about their favourite books, food, etc. so everyone has the opportunity to ask and answer questions. At the end of this communicative task, students can introduce their classmates\u2019 ideas in the first-person singular or reported speech.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >3. Act it out<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"ts-list ts-list-style-icon ts-list-icon-color-skincolor ts- ts-icon-skincolor ts-list-textsize- ts-list-icon-library-fontawesome\"><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Ask the learners to work in small groups and prepare a short conversation.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">After preparing, all the groups come to the front, pick an emotion from a hat and act out their conversation. <\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">The others\u2019 task is to find out the emotion.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">With a lot of emotions, each group has more turns so more opportunities to speak.\n<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >4. My planet\/cake\/monster<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This activity always starts with a planning and drawing part.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<ul class=\"ts-list ts-list-style-icon ts-list-icon-color-skincolor ts- ts-icon-skincolor ts-list-textsize- ts-list-icon-library-fontawesome\"><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Give the learners a template to complete, colour in and add additional things to.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">Without showing the finished pictures to anyone, put them on the board.<\/span><\/li><li><i class=\"ts-skincolor fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i>  <span class=\"ts-list-li-content\">The learners then introduce their work one by one and the others\u2019 task is to guess who produced them.  \n<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h2 style=\"text-align:left;font-size:32px;color:#1e3466;font-family:'Nunito',Arial,Helvetica;font-weight:400;\" class=\"ts-custom-heading \" >5. What was the question?<\/h2>\n[vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prepare a bunch of interesting or funny questions beforehand. One of the learners picks one and answers it. The others have to find out what the question was. Learners can play this activity in small groups to have more turns.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ts-vc_btn3-container  primaryButton ts-vc_btn3-center\"><a class=\"ts-vc_general ts-vc_btn3 ts-vc_btn3-size-md ts-vc_btn3-shape-round ts-vc_btn3-style-flat ts-vc_btn3-weight-yes ts-vc_btn3-color-skincolor\" href=\"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/get-started\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Get Started<\/a><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to improve your students\u2019 speaking skills a bit? Would you like to do so with vocabulary-focused activities? In this part of the BOOKR\u2019s Recommendation series, we\u2019d like to share some of our easy-to-tailor ideas which you can easily implement in your classroom.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8861,"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[80,43,61,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookrs-recommendation","category-recommendation","category-teaching","category-tips-tricks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11936,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2163\/revisions\/11936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookrclass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}