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Activities to Encourage Speaking

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To ensure that the children find the classes interesting enough, it is necessary to enhance the interest that emerges from within the student, and that they find usefulness in their daily life, either in a clear and directly practical way or in form of a solid base of knowledge and competences that facilitate them to be able to cope freely in life's challenges and situations. These are some activities that you can apply in classes for speaking skill: Who’s Telling the Truth? Have each student write three facts about themselves that nobody in the class knows on a piece of paper. Make sure each student includes their name on the top of the page. Collect the sheets of paper and bring three students to the front of the room. Read aloud one of the facts that is true for one of these three students. Descriptive drawing activity:  Pair up the students and give each student a picture, placing it face down so partners cannot see each other’s cards. They must describe the picture for thei

Websites

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LISTENING SKILL British Council Link: https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/listening-exams In the British Council, you can find activities to practice your listening skills, selecting the level, from beginner to advanced. The audios you will find are from different situations and interactive exercises that practice the skills, also the speakers are of different nationalities. Each activity will have a worksheet and homework to complete. Speechyard Link: https://speechyard.com/es/ Speechyard is a website where learning English is fun and entertaining, since learning English through movies, series, or books. You can perform various activities such as missing words, build a phase, prepositions, etc .. You can choose the level from elementary to advanced. We can also chat with other people who use the website. Player FM - Podcast Smarter Link: https://es.player.fm/featured/topics?style=series-only Player FM, this website contains the best Podcasts, allows you not only to su

Speaking Lesson Plan

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Teaching is a process that involves those teaching activities which a teacher performs in the classroom. It is based on planning and specifically lesson planning. Thus, a lesson plan is a detailed plan prepared by the teacher in advance for daily teaching.It helps the teacher in systematic, and effective teaching.  Lesson plan is a teaching outline of the important point of a lesson arranged in order in which they are to be presented; It may include objectives, points to be made, questions to be asked, the reference to materials, assignments, etc.. An Ideal Lesson Plan should be : Divided into Units Objective-based Contain appropriate teaching aids Based on Previous Knowledge Simplicity of Language Time-sense Use of Black-board Use of Illustrations Individual Guidance Use of Strategies, Tactics, Techniques Correlation Teaching from Memory level to Reflective Level Determination of Activities Evaluation Homework Types of lesson plans: Knowledge Lesson, they are those which cause an incr

Importance of Speaking

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Humans are programmed to speak before learn to read and write. In any given, humans beings spend much more time interacting orraly with language rather than using it in its written form. Speaking is the most important skill because it is one of the abilities that is needed to perform a conversation. English speking is not an esay task because spreakers should know many significant components like pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluecy, and comprehension.Learners should have enough English speaking ability in order to communicate easily and effectively with other people. Rivers (19881) studied the use of the language outside the classroom situation and understood that speaking is used twice as much as reading and writing combined. According to Brown (1994), listening and  speaking are lerners' language tools.