A panoply of teaching resources.
Rob Whyte ESL speaking and writing class lessons, activities and worksheets for English students who want to learn and improve their English communication skills.
This ESL speaking activity uses a video to build conversation skills.
This pair work activity works like this.
This pair work ESL speaking activity helps English students build fluency and vocabulary skills at the same time.
Print and copy the sheet. Cut into strips. Give one box of words to each student. Students give partner one word. Partner has to speak 30 seconds – non stop –
Routine. It’s a useful classroom tool. It also brings boredom and unhappiness. That’s why routine needs to be broken from time to time.
That’s what this ESL speaking activity will do. Hopefully.
This is an activity which I have shamelessly borrowed from a terrific business training website. Here is the link for business balls.
This conversation activity creates the conditions for a free speaking activity. With a few prompts the students will engage in an English conversation that does not rely on substitution drills or preset vocabulary.
Here is an ESL conversation activity that builds speaking, listening and thinking skills. If you learn all of the words, you will expand your vocabularyby 60-70 words.
Print and cut a strip of words. Read the three words in a box. Your partner listens and thinks of two things. First, what is common for the three words. They are part of a category. Second, say one more word that is an example of that group.