Teaching Teens: Speaking Activities

Ask yourself

• Are your students exceptionally strong at speaking?
• Does each of your students speak more than 15 minutes of English during class?
• Do you like frontal teaching?

If your answer is "yes" to any of these questions, please stop reading and don't buy the book!

If none of the points above apply, you will find a multitude of methods and activities that can significantly improve the speaking competence of your students at the performative level. All methods and activities follow the simple principle "Language learning is language use!" and foster speaking proficiency in its four dimensions: fluency, accuracy, complexity and appropriacy.

Part I: categorization of activity types, with teaching tips and feedback options: milling, drilling, etc.
Part II: in-depth description of methods and bank of photocopiable resources and engaging speaking activities: buzz reading and cue cards, choral repetition, information-gap and many more .

"The book is full of tips, tricks and activities that will help you overcome the various hurdles when you are trying to get everyone in the class to speak. [...] The 17 activities which then follow are fun, the procedure is easy to follow, and the necessary materials and worksheets are at the end of the book [...]."
Hanna Kryszewska, Humanising Language Teaching (https://www.hltmag.co.uk/feb23/short-book-reviews)