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Planning Speaking Activity


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Why is speaking important?

Speaking is a crucial part of second languagelearning and teaching.

Today's world requires that the goal of teachingspeaking should improve students' communicativeskills, because, only in that way, learners canexpress themselves and learn how to follow the

social and cultural rules appropriate in eachcommunicative circumstance.


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Speaking

Speaking is the most important skill in English language teaching.

In general, to encourage speaking in the early stages of a course and withstudents who are a little timid, give plenty of guidance on what theconversations should e aout.

!ou can give students a list of "uestions to ask each other or specific topicsand lots of language input first.

So efore the activity gets under way make sure that the class knows thenecessary grammar and vocaulary with appropriate e#amples. In this waystudents don$t have to think aout what to say, only how to say things.

Set speaking tasks for pair group work as often as possile. %he tasks

should have clear aims and involve taking turns, so say &'ind out whatyour partner thinks aout ( and make some notes$, rather than )ust tellingthem to discuss (.

%he advantage is that the students are more aware of the need to get theother person$s view instead of talking aout themselves the whole time.


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What is "Teaching Speaking"?

%o use language as a means of e#pressing values and)udgements and organi*e their thoughts in a meaningfuland logical se"uence.

%o produce the English speech sounds and sound patterns

%o use word and sentence stress, and intonation.

%o select appropriate words and sentences.

%o use the language "uickly and confidently with fewunnatural pauses, which is called as fluency.

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How To Teach Speaking?

by "interacting".

-Communicativelanguage

teaching and

collaborativelearning serve

best for this aim.

- based on real-life situations

that requirecommunication.


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communicative activities

1ommunicative activities are practical ecause theyoften don$t re"uire any imagination or opinions fromthe participants.

%hey )ust provide a conte#t for some solid practice of aparticular grammatical structure or some new words.

%his type of e#ercise also accustoms students toworking with each other and gets them moving aout

a it. As in most cases the students aren$t allowed tosee each others$ information, you can get them to sit orstand ack to ack, for e#ample.


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Activities to promote Speaking

DiscussionsSimulations Storytelling Reporting

layingCards

Role PlayInformation

GapInterviews

StoryCompletion

PictureDescribing


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1lassroom Speaking Activities

Acting from a script

Play sript Acting out dialogs

2iscussion

3u** group Instant comment

'ormal deates 4nplanned discussion 5eaching consensus

Prepared talks

6uestioners

Stimulation and role7play

1ommunication games Information gap games %elevision and radio

games


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Activity +e#ample0

8. !o through thevocabulary tomake sure that

students

understand.

-. Do an eampleon the board.

/. Divide the classinto pairs and

give each partner

9. Check that theyall kno# #hat to

do.

$. Set a time limitof about three

minutes% get themstarted and

monitor quietly.

&. Stop theactivity #hen the

time is up andhave a feedback

session.


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1haracteristics of speaking activity

Interactive

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%he 5ole of %eacher

Prompter Participant

'eedackprovider


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Elements of Speaking

2ifferent Speaking Events

1onversational Strategies

'unctional :anguage, Ad)acencyPairs, and 'i#ed Phrases


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Suggestions for teaching Speaking'

provide a rich environment that contains collaorative work,authentic materials and tasks

try to involve each student in every speaking activity

not correct students; pronunciation mistakes very often

reduce their own speaking time while increasing student speakingtime


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Practical Applicationet a half of

the picture, 2o not show

to others,

2escrie

your pictureand try tofind the restof yours=


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5eluctant Students

Preparation

RepetitionGrouping (Big or Small)

Mandatory participation

Plan Perform Analy*e 5epeat


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1onclusion

Rather than leading students to pure

memoriation, providing a rich environment where

meaningful communication takes place is desired.

!earners should be more active in the learning

process by means of interactive activities.

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