esl conversation activities

Learn English Speaking: An Inquiry-based Frame

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English Conversation Lesson

This ESL pair work activity helps students learn English by developing speaking, listening and critical thinking skills. Students interact with a specific question and answer format that requires one student to process new information continuously. The objective is for one student to retell the story with accuracy and detail by asking the right kinds of questions.

  • Level: high beginner and up
  • Time: 10-20 minutes
  • Resources: one short story, level appropriate for the students.

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Learn English Speaking, 5

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Learn English Speaking, 5

  1. Develop fluency skills with a trivia game that focuses on thinking, speaking and listening.
  2. Improve listening skills with exercises from the textbook, units 8 c/d.
  3. Another sound and sort exercise.
  4. A vocabulary exercise with words that start with CON.
  5. A pair work speaking exercise to practice accurate descriptions of plot, character, setting and message with a video.
  6. Mr Go, a pair work exercise that requires students to listen well and asked focused questions.

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