Speak Up: Practice Your English Speaking Skills

Speak Up: Practice Your English Speaking Skills

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to improve your English speaking skills by practicing through various exercises.

Introduce the learning objective and explain the importance of practicing speaking skills.

What do you already know about practicing English speaking skills?

Warm-up Exercise

Repeat after the teacher: 'How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?'

Start the lesson with a fun warm-up exercise to get the students comfortable with speaking English.

Vocabulary Practice

Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.

Create a vocabulary matching exercise to help students learn new words and practice speaking them aloud.

Role-play Activity

Pair up with a partner and practice a short role-play conversation about ordering food at a restaurant.

Assign partners and provide them with a short conversation prompt to practice speaking skills in a realistic scenario.

Phonetics Exercise

Listen to the audio clip and repeat the words after the speaker to practice correct pronunciation.

Provide an audio clip for students to listen to and repeat, focusing on proper phonetics and pronunciation.

Sentence Formation

Rearrange the words to form a complete sentence: 'the beach / I / love / because / relaxing / it's / and / peaceful.'

Provide an exercise for students to practice forming complete sentences in English.

Conversation Starters

Discuss with a partner: 'What is your favorite type of music and why?'

Provide conversation starters to encourage students to speak English with each other and practice their speaking skills.

Picture Description

Describe the picture on the screen in as much detail as possible.

Show a picture on the screen and have students practice describing it in English, using as much detail as possible.

Grammar Review

Choose the correct verb tense: 'Yesterday, I (went / go) to the store.'

Provide a grammar review exercise to help students practice using correct verb tenses in spoken sentences.

Debate Exercise

Split into two groups and debate the topic: 'Should homework be banned in schools?'

Split students into two groups and have them debate a topic in English, encouraging them to use persuasive language and practice their speaking skills.

Tongue Twisters

Repeat after the teacher: 'She sells seashells by the seashore.'

Provide tongue twisters for students to practice speaking quickly and accurately in English.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have practiced your English speaking skills through various exercises and activities.

Conclude the lesson by congratulating students on their hard work and summarizing the key takeaways from the lesson.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.