Activities are a fun way to learn English and keep things interesting while learning can get monotonous or dry. Going through hours and hours of content may get redundant and learning might become stagnant. To avoid this, we’ve listed the 5 spoken English course activities you should try out tomorrow to accelerate your English learning process & spoken skills.
1). Debates
Debates are a great way to start a conversation between two groups of students.
Split students into two groups for and against the topic. Choose one student from each side to explain their position and participate in a short debate. Debating and persuasion is a great way to improve confidence in communication skills and also engages students in critical thinking which is key to being a fluent English speaker.
2). Impromptu speaking activities
Impromptu speaking activities help students spontaneously talk about random topics and improve their thinking skills along with their spoken english. Prepare a list of topics that students will be able to talk about. Split the class into two teams. Each student from a team can speak for 2 to 3 minutes about the topic. As the student is speaking, the other team listens for moments of hesitation, grammatical mistakes, and vocabulary mistakes. If the other team can correctly identify an error, they get a point.
3). Storytelling
Storytelling is a fun and interesting way to improve creative thinking and spoken english. Hand over cards with phrases that start a story. Each student needs to come up with their own story using the starting phrase and 5 or 6 other given words that must be included in the story.
4). Comic strip descriptions
Comic strip descriptions help students talk for long. Give each student a portion of a comic strip. Without showing their pictures to one another, the students should attempt to describe their image, and put the comic strip into the correct order. After about 10 minutes, the students can guess the order, show one another their portion, and see if they were correct.
5). Drama script & Dialogue activity
Drama script & Dialogue activity allows students to act out scenes by rehearsing dialogues out loud. This improves their spoken English, pronunciation and speaking with tonality by expressing emotion in their words. It is a great way to practice English in a fun way. Reading scripts can be loads of fun and an effective way to learn Spoken English.
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