Speaking session mmu handout
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This document contains a list of 27 speaking activities that can be used to develop oracy skills in the foreign language classroom. The activities include games like taboo, battleships, charades, role play, and information gap. Other suggestions are mini presentations, chain speaking, interviews, surveys, and speed dating. The document provides templates and examples for implementing some of the activities, such as describing yourself, planning a battleships game, coming up with excuses in a cluedo activity, and sharing past vacation experiences.
Speaking session mmu handout
- 1. Speaking Activities & Using Technology to Develop Oracy in the MFL Classroom Isabelle Jones Alderley Edge School for Girls http://isabellejones.blogspot.com @icpjones Powerpoint Templates Page 1
- 2. 1. Describe and draw 9. Taboo 2. Spot the difference 10. Battleships 3. Quiz quiz trade 11. Mini presentations 4. Story-telling 12. Chain speaking 5. Charades 13. Role play 6. Mime/Narration 14. Information gap 7. Find someone who 15. Pair dictation 8. Interviews 16. Picture narration Powerpoint Templates Page 2
- 3. 17. Guess who 23. Class survey 18. Memory pairs 24. Speed dating 19. Chinese whispers 25. Puppets 20. Verbal tennis 26. Question/song of the day 21. Mind reading 27. Use visitors to introduce themselves to the class. 22. Noughts and crosses Powerpoint Templates Page 3
- 4. ¿Cómo te llamas? ¿Qué te gusta hacer en tu tiempo libre? ¿Cuántos años tienes? ¿De qué color son tus ojos? ¿Cómo eres de carácter? Powerpoint Templates ¿Cómo es tu pelo? Page 4
- 5. ¿Cómo eres? Me llamo Ana. Tengo quince años. Tengo los ojos verdes. Soy divertida. No soy seria. Tengo el pelo negro y liso. Me gusta bailar porque es un desafío. Powerpoint Templates Page 5
- 7. Battleships – el lunes + activity el día la actividad lunes martes miércoles jueves Powerpoint Templates viernes sábado domingo Page 7
- 9. Word in a bag – explain it to the group. Dice games: 1 dice represents pronouns, second dice represents verbs or tenses. Write an unknown word on the board: pupils ask questions to find out what it means. Guessing game: In pairs, one pupil has a card with a word on a topic, the partner has to ask questions about it to work out what it is e.g. an item of lost property, a job, a famous person etc. TV programme: turn off the sound and pupils provide the dialogue or use future tense by asking what will happen next. Balloon debate: Who gets thrown out first? Cluedo: Who did it? – in groups (with a time limit) pupils come up with either: Powerpoint Templates Page 9 a) the most excuses b) the most creative excuse / alibi
- 10. Throw the ball: Differentiated questions and responses. Build it up: Go round the class or back and forth (in pairs): pupils add a detail to a sentence to make it longer e.g. je joue, je joue au tennis, je joue au tennis avec John etc. Link it: Link key phrases and grammar points to different topics when teaching it e.g. je n’ai pas de frères and ask pupils to come up with other nouns to replace frères. Opinions: Put key higher level phrases in an envelope and pupils in groups. One person rolls the dice e.g. 5 and takes out 5 phrases from the envelope e.g. parce que / weil, je pense que / ich denke, dass, etc. They have to answer a question using all 5 phrases. This can be made more competitive e.g. rolling a 6 = nominate someone else to do your turn. Sounds: in pairs or alone, pupils find as many words as they can with particular sounds. (they could be searching for rhyming words Powerpoint Templates Page 10 too)
- 11. Tengo que pasear al perro No tengo tiempo Tengo que lavarme el pelo Tengo que hacer mis deberes No quiero. Tengo que ordenar mi dormitorio No tengo dinero Templates Powerpoint Page 11
- 12. El verano pasado El invierno pasado El año pasado fuí a Francia Japón Brazil con mi familia mis amigos mi profesor fuímos en avión a pie barco Lo pasé bomba bien mal para una semana Y por la noche bailé mandé mensajes saque fotos quince días un mes por el día tomé el sol descansé Powerpointvisité monumentos Templates Page 12
Editor's Notes
- #5: Pupils interview each other either about own details or those of a celebrity. For lower ability groups use following slide for cues.
- #9: Use slide to elicit theme of comparatives for 1.3 Mira 2 and quickly recap vocab/structure.
- #12: Pupils circulate the room, when music stops they invite their partner to do an activity, partner gives an excuse. Do the same vice versa then swap papers. For higher ability pupils, they can fold over the writing so they have to remember how to say the excuse in Spanish.
- #13: Pupils make a note of their own answers then take it in turns to get what their partners answers are…..they have to repeat each time and start from the beginning if they get it wrong. (do demo with teacher first!!)