Oral language game

This English speaking activity is both fun and useful. The aim is to get students to speak for 30 seconds about topics that may or may not be out of their comfort zone.

We have a list of topics here for you to choose from, and of course you can think of your own. There are two ways to approach this, you can introduce the task by asking them to work individually first, or move straight onto the game below. These type of activities used to be in puzzle magazines all the time. There sis a fair deal of explaining required to them but basically it s a logical fill in the blanks.

It is better suited to higher level students, but its a great English Speaking game when adapted properly. We have a separate page for the full details, and it is in this speaking exercise book free download but will highlight the basics here to see if it is something that fits your teaching needs.

The aim is to fill in the table with all the information so you know everything about the residents of Downing street. However you have to walk around and ask the rest of the class for that information, only once you have spoken to everyone will you be able to work it out. This is a great English speaking game that gets the whole class taking to each other, and forgetting about the language they are doing that in!

You will need the table worksheet for students to fill in and the list of information and clues both on the links includes here. Once your students have the answers then it can be gone through together on the board or white board and it adds another speaking element to the lesson.

This is a great speaking game for ESL students and other. It really encourages them to speak to each other. As an added bonus for teachers we get to act as facilitator rather than be stuck at the front of the classroom. Adaptations: It is possible to add clues carefully to make sure they fit the answers doing this makes it much easier.

The aim is to get the students speaking to each other not just the logic side of the activity. Ask and respond activities give students the comfort of a script to follow, which means those who are a little self conscious have some scaffolding to work from.

It also means these activities are suitable for lower level students who need that extra help. We have one designed for younger learners here. It is possible to actually have the directions already prewritten for students. This means they can practice reading, speaking and listening in one activity. Also it is possible to have your class spend a lesson coming up with the directions themselves and then putting them all in a box or bag at the front for the whole class to use.

This means you add writing and they are actually using their own work to prepare a lesson. One of the main problems when teacher oral English speaking lessons is that the class invariably turns into robots. This is not intentional, so much effort goes into speaking in another language that putting emotion and expression into what they are saying comes way , WAY down the list. So sometimes a little nudge in the right direction is all they need. We have designed an ESL speaking game and lesson to do just that.

Adding expression to their speech is a large step towards sounding natural and developing English fluency. In English to sound more natural we have a set of almost automatic set of responses on hearing good, bad or surprising news. As a game you can then repeat the same sort or exercise as the activity above.

Have a selection of sentences than usually require a response and then ask for the incorrect response. No one expects you to say congratulations when you tell them your little rabbits died yesterday!!! They can, and have been, played with second language kindergarten students all the way up to native speaking business people with the same amount of fun.

The language from the business people was perhaps a little ruder than the kindergarten children but only a little! It is a superb English speaking game for ESL students and native speakers. In it they had a rather colorful character called Timmy Mallet who, among other things, played a game called mallets mallet. Students take turns taking a slip of paper out of a bag.

They read their life-altering event out loud, and the rest of the class asks questions about it. As students take their turns, keep a tally on the board of how many questions each student asks. The student who asks the most questions in total wins.

Variation : Students stand in front of the class and reveal a major event in their lives; it could be a memorable vacation or party, or an important milestone, like a graduation or their first job. Write short messages on slips of paper; each message should describe a problem or a symptom: I have a fever and a stuffy nose.

Students take turns taking a piece of paper. They must read the problem out loud and then proceed to give their recommendation: This person should stay in bed and get plenty of rest. They should also drink lots of water and take aspirin for the fever. Variation : Write other types of problems your students could solve, perhaps difficulties related to studying English, financial troubles or any kind they might share advice on. This worksheet also provides a great example of how to turn a speaking activity into a game.

In this case, the topics revolve around types of movies and the kind your students enjoy the most. They take turns rolling the dice to see what to talk about. To make some of these activities more of a competitive game and less of a simple speaking activity, simply introduce game elements. My favorites include a basic Tic Tac Toe grid, and a boardgame type of path that students move along with the roll of a pair of dice. After a round of questioning, the students guess who is telling the truth.

Variations on the game Taboo: For variation 1, create a PowerPoint presentation with a noun on each slide. Have one student come to the front of the room and sit with their back to the PowerPoint. The rest of the students take turns describing the words on the slides, and the student at the front has to guess them. For variation 2, separate the students into groups of four or five. Place a pile of cards with random nouns in the center of each group.

Have students take turns describing a noun for their group members to guess. Variation 3 is for advanced speakers. Separate the class into two teams. Students are given a word to describe to their teammates, in addition to a list of words that they cannot use in their description. Each student should have two to three minutes to see how many words their teammates can guess. They must describe the picture for their partner to draw. I six it until finally some one has to say I eight it or I ate it giggles all around three boys and that one never got old.

We also sing Road kill stew and Tom the toad why did you hop out on the road you were my friend and now your dead Our version of "I Spy" take place inside the vehicle. I spy something that turns on and off, that blinks, that makes a whirling noise, that gives a warning, etre We also do the license plate or sign game where we start at the letter a and go to z in order, using either road sings we pass or license plates on cars.

Another game is sign bingo. I have cards they each keep and we check them off as we see them. Thank you for this post! Definitely going to add the sound tennis to our repertoire! We also play the 'I'm thinking of game' with my now 3. It lives in the ocean, it doesn't have any bones, it has tentacles All sorts of things- better than I spy for in the car since she's rear facing and has limited view!

Also great for the plane! We also play a game where the next person has to find a word starting with the last letter of the previous persons word. If a word is repeated then this person is out to make it harder the person that is out can come back in if they beat another person to a word and person beaten is now out For example, the first person says "Apple", the second person has to work out that the word ends in "e" and find a word starting with "e" such as "Elephant"; third person has to find a word starting with "t" I love these suggestions for speaking, listening and thinking games to play with children from Childhood […].

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