Making your students SPEAK!!

The ability to speak fluently presupposes not

only a knowledge of languages features, but
also the ability to process information and
language on the spot.

(Jeremy Harmer)

GENERAL FACTORS TO CONSIDER

WHEN SPEAKING

Accuracy and Fluency

Affective factor ( identity + language ego)
The interaction effect
Exposure
Innate phonetic ability
Teaching conversation
Teaching pronunciation

WHAT GETS STUDENTS TO TALK

THE TEACHER
THE CLASSROOM ATMOSPHERE
THE STUDENTS
THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED

 The classroom atmosphere should be learnerfriendly and anxiety-free.

It must encourage students to contribute with
some freedom orally.

 Students mustnt be afraid of taking risks.

Students must get enough positive feedback
so they can see their own progress.
Students need to be tolerant of each other

SOME SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

ASKING AROUND:
Give students five pieces of paper.
Students make questions to their classmates
but they have to avoid saying yes or no.
If a student makes his /her friend to say yes
or no gets a piece of paper.
The student with more pieces of paper wins.
Give some minutes and monitor the activity.

 NEGOTIATING
Set a situation and assign roles to students.
Example:
A: You are a widow and are trying to buy a new
car for you and your three children. You have
to buy a cheap but useful car.
B: You sell cars and you have to convince the
widow to buy an expensive car in order to get
a good commission.

 LISTEN AND ACT (MIME)

Group students in pairs.
Student A sees an image or picture and gives
student B directions to look like the person in
the image or picture.
Then they switch roles.

BECOME AN ARTIST
Group students in pairs.
Give student A a picture
Give student B a piece of paper and a pencil.
Student A describe the picture so student B
can draw.

 THATS ALL FOR TODAY!!!!!