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SPEAKING
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pilarmham
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SPEAKING
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I have a group of 22 exceptional students this year, who will be at university in 2014-15. I love finding resources for them, different activities, videos, worksheets, songs (which very often cannot be done in class, so I send them via Edmodo), but... I have the feeling that I don �t give them enough time to speak. We share three 50-minute classes a week and there are so many things to do!: grammar points, vocabulary, textbook, workbook, exams, impossible days...
I �d love to know how you manage. 
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20 Feb 2013
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aliciapc
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Do you have class in L2 ALL the time ? That should give them time to speak! When you work with texts from the books, oral parts of exams, listening comprehension exercises, movies, songs, I �d say that �s a lot of speaking! Either that or I didn �t understand exactly what you mean ...
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20 Feb 2013
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pilarmham
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yes, we do all that, but I feel I speak too much, or the videos and listening recordings do, there is not much interaction, there is not much time for each individual student to speak. Perhaps I mean: are there any activities that could help? |
20 Feb 2013
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ueslteacher
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Mingling activities are great for allowing your students to speak. In mingling activities all the students get to speak at the same time. Also you could use more small group activities with readings and grammar, in this way they also get the chance for interaction and speaking. Also think-pair-share is a great activity for exceptional students:) Sophia |
20 Feb 2013
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perma
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Perhaps you could organize short activities that involve speaking, have a fun element and are not neccessarily related to the topics or structures you are currently teaching. Because trying to do something relevant to the lesson of the day narrows down the possibilities a lot.
Some ideas that come to mind:
Organize debates. You might present them with a list of topics so they can choose one every week and ask them to prepare their arguments before the next class as part of their homework.
Give them cards with funny, every day situations where 2 people are involved and let them prepare role-plays in pairs, which they can perform for their classmates to watch. This can be a lot of fun.
And a last one, it �s a game I �ve read about at some ESL site some time ago: One of the students writes three sentences about three different events in his / her life on the board. Only one of the sentences must be true. The other two must be lies but still sound plausible. The other students have to ask questions about the three events trying to spot the lies. The first time you should play the part of the liar to demonstrate the game. It �s a lot of fun if you choose interesting stories and arouse their curiosity.
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20 Feb 2013
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tobysmum
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Hi, if they like music, have you tried Sandra |
21 Feb 2013
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aliciapc
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Here there are lots of ws with which you can have them speak :
http://www.eslprintables.com/buscador/search.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=conversation+cards&username=&B2=Search
http://www.eslprintables.com/buscador/search.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=speaking&username=&B2=Search
http://www.eslprintables.com/buscador/search.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=oral+skills&username=&B2=Search
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21 Feb 2013
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pilarmham
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Thank you very much for your help and your great ideas!  |
21 Feb 2013
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