How to Design Effective Speaking Acativities.pptx

I designed this material to deliver a teacher training workshop for English language teachers atteding NYS TESOL 2024 conference.
The workshop is about how to design effective speaking activities in English learning classes.

1. How to Design Effective Speaking Activities Mahmoud Mokhtar

2. Mahmoud Mokhtar Academic Manager Teacher Trainer Business English Teacher

3. 3. Activity-related reasons

4. Ask and answer the following questions in pairs Student A Student B Ask your partner the following questions: What’s the date today? When did the session start? What’s the name of the trainer? Did it rain in Alexandria yesterday? Ask your partner the following questions: when’s your birthday? When does the session finish? What levels do you teach this month? Is it hot in Aswan?

5. Guess 5 criteria P__ p_s_ful Pr_d__ tive Pr_c__ cal Pr_di__able A_a_table

6. The 5 criteria: Purposeful Productive Practical Predictable Adaptable

7. 5 Criteria Adaptable? Purposeful? Practical? Predictable? Productive? Can you predict the language? How much speaking will it generate? Materials? Preparation time? Easy to set up and manage? Can you use it for higher and lower levels? Has a purpose? An outcome?

8. Is it purposeful? Is there a/an purpose/motive/outcome?

9. Is it productive? How much speaking will it generate?

10. Is it Practical? Is it easy to set up and manage? Does it need materials? Do learners need preparation time?

11. Is it predictable? What is the language that learners will need to do the activity?

12. Is it adaptable? Could you adapt it to a higher or lower level?

13. 4Ps & an A

14. Other points to consider Reading is not speaking Specific points to cover during the speaking activity Giving students prompts Activity authenticity

15. What’s wrong?

16. Ask and answer the following questions in pairs Student A Student B Ask your partner the following questions: What’s the date today? When did the session start? What’s the name of the trainer? Did it rain in Alexandria yesterday? Ask your partner the following questions: when’s your birthday? When does the session finish? What levels do you teach this month? Is it hot in Aswan?

17. Prepare a presentation talking about something you like

18. The teacher gave the students a paper with a paragraph that was to serve as the springboard for discussion: "I want you to read the paragraph. Circle words you don't know and underline the grammatical structures that we've studied in this chapter. After that, find a person in the room who you haven't worked with before. Work together to understand the paragraph. Next, find another partner to discuss the paragraph. You are going to write two statements on the board. One statement agrees with the content of the paragraph and the other contradicts the paragraph. Make sure to include as many circled words and underlined grammar points as possible."

19. Work with your partner. One of you is student A (a shop assistant), the other is student B (a customer). Read out the following dialogue. A: Can I help you? B: Yes, I’d like some bread, please. A: Here you are. Anything else? B: Have you got any milk? A: Sorry, we haven’t got any left.

20. Ask your partners about their work?

21. How about the Hot Seat Game?

22. Q&A Mahmoud Mokhtar mahmoudmokhtar.online

23. Further Readings How to Teach Speaking - Jeremy Harmer Learning Teaching - Jim Scrivener Ken Lackman – Teaching Speaking Sub-skills