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ESL forum > Techniques and methods in Language Teaching > Getting students to talk    

Getting students to talk



PaulG
Costa Rica

Getting students to talk
 
Hello, fellow teachers. Could you please help me with something? I �m teaching conversational English, so I have to get them to talk a lot. However, I do not want to just tell them to prepare dialogues and presentations everyday, since that gets boring for my students. I �m planning on taking puppets one of these days so that they can make puppet shows, and the other day I had them play hot potato, and the person who got the "potato" had to speak. But I �m running out of ideas. Could you please give me some? I would very much appreciate it!!! 

21 Mar 2012      





ascincoquinas
Portugal

Dear Paul!

Our colleague Philip R. has wonderful ws and ppts that can be used for that purpose. So I suggest you take a look at this link:

http://www.eslprintables.com/buscador/buscar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=&userid=60456&user=PhilipR

hope this helps.

22 Mar 2012     



PaulG
Costa Rica

Thanks! Well, let me check it out to see if they work. Of course, I would also like some ideas that don �t require printing out worksheets (I don �t mind downloading, but I �m on a low budget). If anybody has anything else, I would also appreciate it. Thank you very much, ascincoquinas. :-D

22 Mar 2012     



ascincoquinas
Portugal

Hi Again Paul!

Philip is also a member of ISLCOLLECTIVE.com. All you have to do is sign up. Free downloads available, no need to upload anything.

His nickname is the same.

http://en.islcollective.com/mypage?id=1542

Hope this helps.

22 Mar 2012     



PaulG
Costa Rica

Thanks! :-D

22 Mar 2012     



PaulG
Costa Rica

Does anybody else have any ideas that do not require printing anything?

22 Mar 2012     



Mariethe House
France

you might find something here:

http://busyteacher.org/search.html?q=getting+students+to+speak

22 Mar 2012     



ueslteacher
Ukraine

http://eslinsider.com/how-to-teach-english-videos/warm-up-icebreakers
Sophia

22 Mar 2012     



Pinky Makus
Canada

- writing words and phrases on a soccer ball or a beach ball and getting kids to roll it or pass it to one another and talking about the topics on the ball


22 Mar 2012     



PaulG
Costa Rica

Thank you so much, everybody! :-D

23 Mar 2012