Speaking Activities PDF

DESIGNING TASKS & ACTIVITIES FOR SPEAKING SKILL PRINCIPLES IN TEACHING SPEAKING 1. Speaking is a productive skill, but children usually feel not ready to speak up. 2. Short practice activities help children build productive language to use. 3. Children need experience on different t...

DESIGNING TASKS & ACTIVITIES FOR SPEAKING SKILL PRINCIPLES IN TEACHING SPEAKING 1. Speaking is a productive skill, but children usually feel not ready to speak up. 2. Short practice activities help children build productive language to use. 3. Children need experience on different tasks to make them improve their skill. 4. Teachers should consider children’s developmental stage and their level in setting speaking activities. PRINCIPLES IN TEACHING SPEAKING 5. Provide children with language needed (vocabulary) before the speaking. 6. Teachers should design authentic activities like role play, dialogues based on real life conversations. 7. Be aware of children’s pronunciation. 8. Speaking is not an individual skill. 9. When the class is too noisy in speaking activity, do not shout at them. SPEAKING ACTIVITIES 1. Look, listen & repeat 2. Listen & participate 3. Show & tell 4. Ask your friends 5. Look & say 6. Retell a story 7. Describe a picture 8. Read aloud  SPEAKING ACTIVITIES 1. Look, listen & repeat Show some pictures (transportation) to the children. Say the name one by one. Ask the children to repeat it.  SPEAKING ACTIVITIES 2. Listen and Participate Read a story with many repetitions. Ask the children to listen and take part in the story by saying some repeated words/sentences.  SPEAKING ACTIVITIES 3. Show and Tell Show a picture to the children. Ask them to tell what they can see in the picture. It can be in a form of words, phrases or sentences.  SPEAKING ACTIVITIES 4. Ask your friends (SURVEY GAME) Ask the children to go around and ask theirs friends about certain information. SPEAKING ACTIVITIES