esl conversation activities

ESL Speaking: Activities, Lessons and Exercises for Week 12

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It’s week 12 of the semester for my English students. The semester is quickly coming to a close so my students need to work to concentrate on the English exercises and learn the ESL lesson material.

ESL English pair work exercise: Speak for 60 Seconds.

This pair work worksheet is a list of topics. One partner chooses a topic. The other student says a list of things related to topic. Each person gets 60 second to speak. Keep a total of the answers. The winner is the person with the most answers.

Get the worksheet here: esl-speaking-topics.

Phrasal Verbs Maze

This pair work exercise starts with a maze. Students move through the maze by matching two parts of a phrasal verb.

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ESL Speaking: Sentence Game

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This is a fun, fast-paced ESL speaking game for an English class. This English speaking activity uses videos as prompts for students to shout out answers based on what they see.

ESL Sentence Game Rules

  1. Make teams.
  2. One person from each team stands.
  3. Show short clip from video. Pause video.
  4. Student shouts out sentence to describe action.
  5. One point for first correct answer.

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ESL Conversation: Week 9 Lessons and Activities

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The mid-terms exams, thank goodness, are over. Now it is time for my ESL students to start learning English again.

Here are some of the ESL conversation activities, exercises and worksheets we will use this week.

SIGNS

This is a fast ESL pair work speaking exercise. Open the lesson worksheet here. Look at the signs on the page and answer three questions:

  1. What do the signs mean?
  2. Where would you see a sign like that?
  3. Do you understand all of the words?

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