performance and achieve language
learning goals, the four macro skills of
listening, speaking reading and writing
are usually the most frequently assessed
and focused areas. However, speaking,
as a productive skill, seems intuitively the
most important of all the four language
skills because it can distinctly show the
correctness and language errors that a
language learner makes. Since English
speaking tests, in general, aim to
evaluate how the learners express their
improvement and success in
pronunciation and communication,
several aspects, especially speaking test
formats and pronunciation need to be
considered.
What are we
doing here???
In this pages we want to show some
simple ideas to make speaking skill
with students in perfect environment of
class. We depend on two main ways:
a) By using role play with good
reaction and acting.
b) By making a perfect and exciting
presentation.
Role play
Ask your students to make a role play and act this situation ,they can use a
suitable clothes and real object and make the class room as land mark for
different situations also you can ask from classmate to be a judges to
evaluate and give marks for the role play. That is give your students many
skills than speaking such as (anaylies,obsevation,exciting to act, evaluation)
You can write the situation in a piece of papers and tell the students to
choose.
We give a symbol (A ) and ( b ) for students or you can use their names.
Situations:
1- You are meeting for a first time.
2- You are friends. It’s late and you would like to go home.
3- A is working and B is the customer.
4- You work together. It’s A’s first day.B: introduce yourself.
5- You don’t know each other. A: You bump into B who drops her books
Work in groups of three, throw a dice to choose a person in the box, ask
questions about the person: ( you need a box and pieces of papers)
Ask about name – Age – Job – Family – What she looks like) then swap
roles and repeat. ( Characters are 
Give your students some pictures to choose one , then make role play (
You need stuff and a correct place of class to make acting correctly )
Role play
1- fast food
2- flight attendant
3- Self- service buffet.
4- tray
Presentation
When I grow up
( ask your student to drawing her future on a
board, then ask the classmate try to guess
what is she want to be when she grows
up????)
Presentation
Think of a dish that you like and make it or bring a picture for it.
You must talking about:
Ingredients.
Who usually prepares it?
When you eat it ?
Why you like it?
Food that you liked when
You were a child.
Role play
Choose the situation from this picture below
A= You arrive at your
destination and get off
the train
B= You are carrying a
very heavy bag.
A= You are in the train
café with a friend
B= You don’t have
enough money to pays
for the coffee.
A= You are at the train
but have missed your
train, you want to buy a
ticket for the next train.
B= You work in the
ticket office.
Presentation
Ask the student
to give you
five reasons for
Why are people learning
English language???
Role play
Ask the students to choose one of the markets and make role play, use
the expressions you have learnt ( they can bring real object , clothes ,
make a suitable place in class to practice selling and buying.
Role play
On the phone
Ask the student to make a message or an appointment by using phone for
example:
A=call B
B= answer. ask A to hold
A=accept
B= wait a minute ask what A wants
A ask to speak to C
B= say that C isn't a available ask to take a message.
A= leave a message
B= thanks
A= thank B say goodbye
B= say good bye
Role play with game
Ask two students to play games such as chess , monopoly , cards, abalone
scrabble , snake and ladder, then listen to them when they are discussing
with using English language.
Role play
Ask student to choose one of papers then act the situation
Situations:
1- you are strangers, it’s very hot outside. A: start talking to B about the
weather.
2- you are working together A : you are going somewhere special on holiday.
Tell B about it.
3- you are the boss. The company is closing .Tell B the bad news.
Presentation
Ask the student to talk about a famous person and hang a big picture for
her\ him on a board.
Presentation
Ask the students to talk about one of the most famous monuments in the
world and hang a big picture for it or bring magnified for it.
Sources
Global (course book)
My experience