havo 5 speaking activities

havo 5 speaking activities

Speaking activity I

Work in pairs and ask each other the following questions:

1) Where are you from & are you studying at the moment? (I attend high school at CSG Liudger, the  school of higher general secondary education 

2) What kind of work would you like to do in the future? (e.g. I would like to become entrepreneur, teacher, business man/woman, politician etc.)

3) What do you like best about the area where you're currently living? (What I enjoy most about living in ....)

4) How good are you at organizing your free time/spare time? (Well, actually I am fairly good/not so good ... I spend a lot of time..)

5) What do you enjoy about studying English?

Speaking activity III

Speaking activity IV

Describe the two types of holidays in the pictures 

to each other

Which type of holiday would you prefer?

How would each type of holiday affect the country?

Benefits/disadvantages

 (e.g. generates money, littering, appreciation of wildlife etc.)

Create a list with UK and US educational terminology 

UK word

Pupil

Year

Nursery

Primary school

Mark

Careers adviser

To play truant

Secondary school

University

US word

Public school

UK word

1. Pupil
2. Year
3. Nursery
4. Primary school
5. State school
6. Mark (a letter assigned to a range of points)
7. Careers adviser
8. To play truant
9. Secondary school

10. University

US word

1. Student
2. Grade
3. Kindergarten
4. Elementary school
5. Public school
6. Grade - a letter assigned to a range of points:

A = excellent (90 - 100 points)

B = good (80 - 89 points),

C = average (70-79 points)

D= sufficient (60-69 points)

F = failed (0-59 points)

7. Guidance counselor

8. To skip class/to play hooky

9. High school

10. University/College

Talk to your classmates (pairwork)

Talk to your classmate about your school life: 

1) Which schools did you attend? (Kindergarten, elementary school, high school + higher  general secondary education - I have attended high school since ...

2) Which courses are in your curriculum? (I take math, physics, physical education/physed, etcetera)

 3) Which compulsory classes do you intensely dislike/really love & why?

4) When will you graduate? (I hope to/expect to graduate / obtain my GCSE;  I am afraid of/think .... will be a piece of cake!)

5) What studies will you do after graduating from high school? (To pursue a studies in the field of business, arts, sciences) 

KEEP ON TALKING FOR 3 MIN. STRAIGHT PER PERSON, AVOID LONG SILENCES

Use words unit 4 to describe the picture: 

to mock, to bully, to humiliate, hostile (environment), to be appalled by, to feel rejected, 

to ignore, unfortunately, confidence, to be upset, desperate, concerned, outrage, a tendency to, to envy

Use words unit 3 to describe the pictures: 

pale, to fall ill, to have a cold, GP, treatment, a fever, to recover

People with disabilities, health insurance (covers ...), paraplegic (person suffering from a form of paralysis in the lower body)