1. ESL Speaking Activities
Kimberly Kern, English Language Fellow
IHCI, 2013
kimberlykern.weebly.com

2. Warm Up Line up! How long have you been teaching? Oldest to youngest.
Most shy to most outgoing

3. Types of Speaking Activities
Talk as Interaction
Talk as Transaction
Talk as Performance

4. Talk as Interaction Games Dialogues Discussion (opinion)
Mini-debates (argue)
Consensus (argue/agree)

5. Talk as Transaction Information gap activities (questions)
Information gap with pictures
Jigsaw activities (retell)
Role-playing activities
Surveys/quizzes

6. Talk as Performance Presentations with images (no reading!)
Debates (researched with facts and data)
Show and Tell (things or pictures)
Report on an interview of someone
Recite a poem or song
Reader’s Theater/ Role play

7. My website… Kimberlykern.weebly.com This website is for you!
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