Unit 9. Teaching Speaking
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Unit 9. Teaching Speaking
Jessica Liu• Warm-up• Reasons
for teaching speaking
• Speaking sequences
• Exercise 2
Kelly Yu• Correctin
g speaking
• What teachers do during a speaking activity
• Exercise 3
Holly Chung
• Speaking sequences
• Discussion• Exercise 1• Conclusion
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Clips from Youtube
Children
Baby
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:1. A chance of real-life rehearsal2. 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
Discussion
Buzz groups
Opposing groups
More Speaking Suggestions
Information-gap activitiesTelling storiesFavorite objectsMeeting and greeting
Information Gap
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 describePlus: Clip 1
Clip 2
More Speaking Suggestions
Surveys
Famous peopleStudent presentationsBalloon 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?
Constant interruption is prohibited!
• It will destroy the conversational flowTaking 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 class2. Write their mistakes on the board3. Show their mistakes individually to the students concerned
Gender Correction
Not to single students out for particular criticism!
Exercise 3. Yes or No
Section 1. AnimalsRule: 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
1.Provoke “speaking –as-a-skill”
2. Content3. Correcting Errors4.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.