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Speaking Activity 2º ESO Giving Advice
This is a worksheet in a series that I am doing to review for an oral exam for 2º Programa. It is based on the grammar used in the book with role plays that I have made to complement them. Might be a...
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Restaurant Role Play
This is a role play for paired students of mixed proficiency. One student plays a customer who finds a cockroach in their food while the other student plays the waiter. Depending on their speaking...
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Speaking Activity: Going to the Pharmacy and Ordering Takeout [2º ESO]
This is the 4th in a series of role plays designed to review "useful" english found in the textbook used for 2º Programa at a Bilingual High School in Spain. The role plays are designed to not only...
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Talking on the Phone
This worksheet provides various sentences/phrases that may be used in a phone dialogue. I played the telephone game with my class as a warmer, and then we went over some phone vocabulary together....
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Busy Schedule
I designed this worksheet for a group of secretaries who needed practice speaking about obligation and schedules. I wanted them to practice communicating information about schedules, making a plan,...
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Making Suggestions and Expressing Preferences
This is just a role play with an example and some situations for students to role play making suggestions and expressing preferences. I have tried this activity in class a couple of times. At first, my...
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Speaking: Retelling Coherently
This is a funny activity for intermediate students. Put the students in pairs (Student A, Student B) Give Student A a card (like those below). The card includes some expressions Student A must use....
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Cinderella Role-play
This worksheet is a nice way to make the class on theatre amusing and motivate students to learn English. First of all, divide students into two group and ask them to fill in the grid on the first...
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Functional Language: Giving/Asking for an Opinion
A list of useful conversational phrases used to express or ask for an opinion, agree or disagree and express doubts. Last section suggests that the students think of more topic-appropriate phrases and...
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Song Worksheet: Loving You by Aloe Blacc
This worksheet offers a gap fill activity, a present simple / present continous activity, an irregular verbs activity, a speaking activity (students imagine her side of the story and come up with...
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Monday Madness Game
This game (board and situation cards) was created to revise and practice functional language: apologizing, socializing and asking for help. Originally tailored to upper-intermediate and advanced...
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Interviewing Famous People
This is an interesting activity for your students to use past tense and question formation.In pairs they have to prepare an interview to a famous person, the dates and facts are provided. 10 minutes to...
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Role Plays: Relationships
4 unusual and fun situations for students to role play. Tested in the classroom. Students love them and get all involved and enthusiastic. Perfect for intermediate level and up. For your convenience...
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Shopping Situations & Role-Plays
This exercise is good for developing conversation skills. It contains situations for pairwork practice. One student is a customer, the other a shop assistant and they need to negotiate, compromise or.....
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After Sales Dialogue [Complaint]
This is a cloze test in the form of a dialogue. Students could work in pairs or small groups in order to complete the conversation using the words given. When they have finished they could act the...
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Daily Routine and Habits
This is a pairwork about daily routine. Pupils usually start a conversation on daily routine using vocabulary on this theme. There is a little bit of grammar and then they sum up their neighbours'...
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Weather Reporter
Weather girl/boy activity: The document has weather symbols to cut out and use. I usually get the student to draw a Map of Spain or other country and have them choose five cities. They make up a...
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Famous Person Role-play Game
This is a role-play game for intermediate and advanced students. They have to work in pairs, one student will be a famous person and the other one will be the interviewer. Students will practice the...
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A Press Conference: Role Play
I designed this worksheet to practice indirect questions. A student will play one of the roles in it as a celebrity, while the others may ask questions based on the gists given. Of course, you can...
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Have You Got...?
Pair work speaking activity: Students A and B have different pictures. First, teacher elicits the needed vocabulary with the whole group. Secondly, students work on the questions individually, when...
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