Learn English Speaking, 1

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Learn English speaking

WORK PLAN THIS WEEK

Here is the plan for this week’s English conversation class.

  1. Let’s begin by looking at the Fall 2015 conversation class syllabus (or pdf file)
  2. Look at the textbook.
  3. Simple past tense review exercises.
  4. Which one is different speaking and thinking exercise.
  5. Imagination speaking exercise or new images (new pics in pdf)

Pair Work 1

Here is an ESL speaking activity that requires you to speak and think.

  1. Each partner gets one worksheet.
  2. Read four words on one line.
  3. Your partner has to listen and then explain why one word is different.
  4. Listen. is that answer logical?
  5. Do you have a different answer?

Pair Work 2

This ESL speaking activity and worksheet  requires some imagination and sentences that start with “It looks like …. ”

  1. Work with a partner.
  2. Look at a picture.
  3. Ask your partner, “What does that look like?
  4. Partner answers (for example) “It looks like an eye. here is the white part of an eye and here is the black part.”
  5. Ask your partner to explain more.
  6. Then say your idea.

Pair Work 3

This is a pair work jigsaw speaking activity that asks you to make a story, tell the story, make it better and tell it again.

  1. With a partner, look at the picture with a man and a boat.
  2. Put the pictures in order and make a story. Use one or two sentences per picture. Write the sentence down in your notebook.
  3. Change partners. Tell your story. Your new partner will listen. Then your partner will speak to you.
  4. Your job is to listen to your new partner’s story and copy words or phrases that make your story better. Rewrite your story.
  5. Come back to your original partner. Tell him/her your new story. Try to say it faster than the first time.