Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Productive skills: Speaking - Coggle Diagram
Productive skills: Speaking
Approaches to speaking
Organising
Topic and cues
Structuring talk
Avoiding the talk-talk loop
Open questions
Playing devil's advocate
Fluency and confidence
A few keys to getting a good discussion going
Frame the discussion well
Preparation time
Don't interrupt the flow
Specific problems are more productive than general issues
Roll cards
Buzz groups
Break the rules
Communicative activities
repeating sentences you say
doing oral grammar drills
reading aloud from the coursebook
giving a prepared speech
acting out a scripted conversation
giving instructions so that someone can use a new machine
improvising a conversation so that it includes lots of examples of new grammar structures
one learner describes a picture in the textbook while the others look at it
Some common communicative activities
Picture difference tasks
Group planning tasks
Ranking tasks
Pyramid discussion
Board games
Puzzles and problems
Role play, real play and simulation
Role play
writing role cards
adding a missing role card
Fluency, accuracy and communcation
Running a fluency activity
Correcting work after fluency activity
write sentences used during the activity then discuss is
write sentences on the board then ask students to correct them
Scaffolding
showing interest and agreeing
encouragement echo
echoing meaning
aking conversation-oiling questions
asking brief questions
Different kinds of speaking
being more specific about genre
analyse genre
stages in a speaking lesson
set task
plan the speaking
rehearse the speaking
do the task
give feedback
exposure to example
add/correct/revise
redo the task