Unit 9. Teaching Speaking Jessica Liu Warm-up Reasons for teaching speaking Speaking sequences Exercise 2 Kelly Yu Correcting speaking What teachers do during a speaking activity Exercise 3 Holly Chung Discussion Exercise 1 Conclusions

Clips from Youtube Baby Children

Q: What phenomenon can you observe from the 3 clips?

That’s right! They are speaking!

listen imitate talk

Reasons for teaching English speaking Provide rehearsal speaking opportunities Give them feedback Activate their English

Speaking sequences Photographic competition Role-play Portrait interview

Photographic competition Role of student: judges of photography Process: Purpose: students can activate the knowledge they know to discuss give them five pictures discuss criteria and give reasons for choosing their favorite picture Present the results of their groups

Role-Play Roles of student: roles of situations Process: Purpose: A chance of real-life rehearsal Express themselves freely the outline of the drama Characteristics and background Discuss and imitate the character Play the role on the stage

Portrait interview Role of student: roles in a picture Process: Purpose: activate their knowledge students are in groups Each group selects one of the characters in the picture Come up with questions for their characters Put in new groups, and interview each other 11

Discussion Buzz groups Opposing groups

More Speaking Suggestions Information-gap activities Telling stories Favorite objects Meeting and greeting

Information Gap Find out the differences Different bits of information (Describe and Draw) Find out the differences Do a lot of description by Q &A

Telling Stories (Favorite objects)(Famous people) Personal experience: “Show & Tell” Use “when, what, where, why, who, and how” to describe Plus: Clip 1 Clip 2

More Speaking Suggestions Surveys Famous people Student presentations Balloon debate (Moral dilemmas) questionnaire Find someone who… Interacting with others in English

Correcting Speaking What Teachers do during a speaking activity

Q: How will you correct your students’ pronunciation or grammar errors during speaking activities?

Gender Correction Taking notes during speaking activities. Constant interruption is prohibited! It will destroy the conversational flow Taking notes during speaking activities. When the activity has finished, ask the students how they thought it went before giving their own feedback.

Gender Correction 1. Discuss students’ mistakes with the class 2. Write their mistakes on the board 3. Show their mistakes individually to the students concerned Not to single students out for particular criticism!

Teachers could simply say “Yes” or “No” to students. Exercise 3. Yes or No Section 1. Animals Rule: There are four animals here. Students have to guess what animals they are by describing them in English. Teachers could simply say “Yes” or “No” to students.

Conclusions Provoke “speaking –as-a-skill” Content Correcting Errors Quantity vs. Quality

You are impatient ,and you feel unhappy. You want to take a vacation.

You don’t have enough sleep, because you have to many things to do.

Because you are always busy in a whole day, so you don’t have a good mood.

You are busy at work, and your boyfriend or girlfriend would complain about it.

You have too many things to worry about, so it’s time for you to calm down and think about it.

You have too many things to do , and now you should make a plan to do them step by step.

If you are single, you would meet new friends and someone you like.