Lesson 2 Speaking activities

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

Speaking!

Today

- Various speaking activities 

- How to ask and answer questions

- How to talk about an object/picture

BUT FIRST:

Aims:

• I'm more confident when speaking English.
• I know enough words to tell my opinion about something.
• I know how to form questions in English.
• I know how to answer questions in English.

1. Fishbowl assignment

Instructions:

Er zijn 2 cirkels: een 'Inner Circle' en een 'Outer Circle'.

De Inner Circle gaat in gesprek (in het Engels, natuurlijk) over een bepaald onderwerp.
De Outer Circle is stil, totdat je jezelf toevoegt aan het gesprek door iemand in de Inner Circle op de schouder te tikken en te vervangen. 

Monic let op dit aandachtspuntje: Ik richt vaak op 5 sprekers tegelijk, maar pas dit aan a.d.h.v. de groepsgrote; wat goed voelt en wat bevorderlijk is voor het gesprek! 

Topics:

• Home work should be banned in schools.
• Primary schools should allow pupils to use ChatGPT.
• School uniforms improve student performance.
• All students should be required to learn a new language (other than English).

Instruction:

Discussion assignment

• 2 rings of people: Listeners & speakers
• Speakers dicuss the given topic
• Listeners can tap one of the speakers on the shoulder to switch out and join the conversation 
• Everyone has to have joined the conversation at least once

2. Interview celebrity

• You are going to interview someone! 
• Choose someone you admire and whom
  you wish to ask 5 questions
  (he/she doesn't have to live anymore)
• Choose someone you know quite a lot about!
• Choose 5 verbs from the list you'll see in the next slide, write these verbs down

Choose 5 verbs:

decide	hate	love
offer	prefer	move
win	continue	buy
wait	consider	change
keep	forget	repeat

Make 5 questions:

• Make 5 questions with each verb
  
• Make sure you can answer these question yourself!
• These questions are the ones you are going to use in the interview
• For example:   
  - What did you love about being the president  of the USA?    - Did you like to move to The White House? Why? Why not?

Grammar help

If you find it difficult to make the questions, look at this site:

https://www.espressoenglish.net/an-easy-way-to-form-almost-any-question-in-english/

The Interview

• Make pairs
• Give your partner your own questions 
• You take the role of the person you wanted to interview,
• While your partner asks you the questions you just made.
  
• You both take both roles: interviewer and being interviewed

Did you improve: 

• How to ask questions?
• How to answer questions?
• Your Fluency
  
• Your Pronunciation
• Your English

Aims:

• I'm more confident when speaking English.
• I know enough words to tell my opinion about something.
• I know how to make  questions in English.
• I know how to answer questions in English.

Name one thing that you've learned from this lesson

Thanx! 

Cya next week!!