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SPEAKING ACTIVITIES pre-discussion thinking&rehearsal time

1. Role-plays (simulations)
• Meeting and greeting
2. Discussions
3. Problem solving
4. Mingling
e.g “Find someone who…”
Surveys 6. Telling stories&Retelling stories
5. Information gap activities: 7. Photographic competition
• Find the differences 8. Portrait interview
• Tableaux vivants (one group of Ss has a picture and 9. Pyramid discussion
has to direct another group to mimic it) 10. Live monologues
• Jigsaw (students have incomplete information and e.g giving presentations
have to get the missing info from their partner(s) & recorded (e.g vlog) monologues
• Describe&draw
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SPEAKING ACTIVITIES pre-discussion thinking&rehearsal time
Postcards WRITING ACTIVITIES
Messages
Emails (letters)
Email interviews
e.g. writing to each other
Essays
Articles
Film reviews
Reports
Brochures & Guides
Poetry
Collaborative writing
e.g story circles, projects
 Blogging
Asking for and giving advice
WRITING ACTIVITIES
This is a communicative writing task and aims at creating an incentive by providing other
students as an audience. It encourages fluency by use of groups, pair work and discussion
where they can utilise their own schemata. Writing letters to an agony aunt could be modified
into pair or group work, to provide an audience for writing and a sequence of activities.

Using visuals to focus descriptions

This is a composing writing task. It aims at helping students see the importance of selection
and focus on writing a description. A collection of pictures is gathered which have a number of
people or objects in relation to each other, still lives or scenes. Each student is given a picture
which they study. Can they describe it clearly in words as the artist or photographer has
shown?

Describing a person

This is a crafting writing task. It aims at supporting organising content for an informal
description of a person in a letter to a friend. Students are asked to think individually about a
person they like and write a few sentences about him or her.