Unit 9. Teaching Speaking

Jessica Liu• Warm-up• Reasons

for teaching speaking

• Speaking sequences

• Exercise 2

Kelly Yu• Correcting

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 flow

Taking 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.