ESL Speaking Activities

Kimberly Kern, English Language FellowIHCI, 2013

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Warm Up

Line up!

How long have you been teaching?

Oldest to youngest.

Most shy to most outgoing

Types of Speaking Activities

Talk as InteractionTalk as TransactionTalk as Performance

Talk as Interaction

GamesDialoguesDiscussion (opinion)Mini-debates (argue)Consensus (argue/agree)

Talk as Transaction

Information gap activities (questions)

Information gap with pictures

Jigsaw activities (retell)

Role-playing activities

Surveys/quizzes

Talk as PerformancePresentations with images (no

reading!)

Debates (researched with facts and data)

Show and Tell (things or pictures)

Report on an interview of someone

Recite a poem or song

Reader’s Theater/ Role play

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