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500 Tips For TESOL Teachers

This document provides examples of speaking tasks and activities that can be used to teach English, including drills, adapting written exercises, dialogues, describing pictures, information gaps, problem solving, selecting and ranking, role plays and presentations. It also provides instructions for a beach picture differences activity, with the steps numbered and headings provided. References are listed at the end for further resources on teaching speaking.

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500 Tips For TESOL Teachers

This document provides examples of speaking tasks and activities that can be used to teach English, including drills, adapting written exercises, dialogues, describing pictures, information gaps, problem solving, selecting and ranking, role plays and presentations. It also provides instructions for a beach picture differences activity, with the steps numbered and headings provided. References are listed at the end for further resources on teaching speaking.

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MScTESOL, University of Stirling

TESOL Methodology TESP002/TESPD01

Teaching Speaking: Tasks & examples


Drills

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Milling activities

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Adapting written exercises for controlled speaking practice

Pictures can be used for teacher-led or pairwork drills:

Murphy (1990)

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Dialogues

Soars & Soars (2006)

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Describing pictures

Granger & Plumb (1981)

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Introducing an information gap

Johnson (2008, pp. 260-261)

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Information gap and pictures

Learner B

(Scrivener 2011)

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Planning and problem-solving

Levy & Murgatroyd (2009)


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Zoo plan

Ur (2015)
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Selecting and ranking

(Klippel 1984)

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Role plays

Scrivener (2011)
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Presentations

Cunningham & Moor (2001).

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Managing speaking activities
Put these instructions for the beach picture differences activity in the right order. Number each
paragraph and give it a heading. The first one has been done.

1. Preparation

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(Scrivener 2011)

References
Cunningham, S. & Moor, P. (2001). Cutting edge intermediate. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Granger, C. and Plumb, J. (1981) Play Games with English. Oxford: Macmillan.
Johnson, K. (2008). An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (2nd ed.). Harlow: Pearson
Education.
Klippel, F. (1985). Keep talking: Communicative fluency activities for language teaching. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Levy, M. and Murgatroyd, N. (2009). Pairwork and Groupwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Murphy, R. (1990). Essential Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Scrivener, J. (2011). Learning Teaching (3rd ed.). Oxford: Macmillan Education.
Soars, L. and Soars, J. (2006). Headway Elementary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ur, P. (2012). A Course in Language Teaching (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ur, P. (2015). Discussions and More. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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