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One of the most frequent goals for English language students is to develop their speaking abilities and a speaking lesson’s main aim is to do just that! Here are some fun, communicative, and interactive lesson plans that are ready for you to go ahead and use in your classroom right away!
Ready for Halloween? Know what you’re going to wear? Here’s a fun lesson based on the context of Halloween costumes – sure to be fun for all the students as the get to develop their speaking for fluency abilities in a fun and interactive lesson!
A fun lesson centered around an engaging listening clip from a famous movie (Jerry McGuire) that leads into a super interactive speaking activity. You definitely need to use this one in the classroom!
What’s a noticing/analysis task? A noticing task (also referred to as an analysis activity) is an activity that is used to draw the attention of the students (hence the term ‘noticing’) to language used inside a text. Notice (no pun…
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Controlled practice activities develop accuracy. Here you will find a large range of different controlled practice activity types with helpful examples of each.
Get an overview and examples of different kinds of freer productive activities you can do to improve your students’ abilities to speak or write for fluency! Includes important details and demonstrations!
Learn about the two major kinds of more specific reading tasks to develop the abilities of your students to read for deeper comprehension and to scan for specific information.
Below you will find links to several introductory lesson plans and demonstration videos: Find Someone Who… This lesson is a easy yet fun and interactive one that doesn’t take too much to do. It only requires a simple survey handout…
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