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Teaching Speaking: Tasks & examples

Drills

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Milling activities

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Adapting written exercises for controlled speaking practice

Pictures can be used for teacher-led or pairwork drills:

Murphy (1990)

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Dialogues

Soars & Soars (2006)

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Describing pictures

Granger & Plumb (1981)

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Introducing an information gap

Johnson (2008, pp. 260-261)

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Information gap and pictures

Learner B

(Scrivener 2011)

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Planning and problem-solving

Levy & Murgatroyd (2009)

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Zoo plan

Ur (2015)
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Selecting and ranking

(Klippel 1984)

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Role plays

Scrivener (2011)
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Presentations

Cunningham & Moor (2001).

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Managing speaking activities
Put these instructions for the beach picture differences activity in the right order. Number each
paragraph and give it a heading. The first one has been done.

1. Preparation

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(Scrivener 2011)

References
Cunningham, S. & Moor, P. (2001). Cutting edge intermediate. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Granger, C. and Plumb, J. (1981) Play Games with English. Oxford: Macmillan.
Johnson, K. (2008). An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (2nd ed.). Harlow: Pearson
Education.
Klippel, F. (1985). Keep talking: Communicative fluency activities for language teaching. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Levy, M. and Murgatroyd, N. (2009). Pairwork and Groupwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Murphy, R. (1990). Essential Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Scrivener, J. (2011). Learning Teaching (3rd ed.). Oxford: Macmillan Education.
Soars, L. and Soars, J. (2006). Headway Elementary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ur, P. (2012). A Course in Language Teaching (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ur, P. (2015). Discussions and More. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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