Interactive

speaking
activities

A Teacher Training | January 23rd, 2021

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How well do you know the teacher?
Aims of the training

To review the To understand what to

principles of teaching prepare in teaching
speaking speaking online

To engage students To apply and

through simple yet participate in the
interesting activities interactive online
and other apps activities
Teaching speaking
in an online lesson

The same principles

The same stages
Different delivery
Different practices
 Teaching principles
Drill the
Make them language since
Explain why
believe the goal the students’
your method is
is easy to voice is safe as
important
achieve a crowd of
voices

Keep Feedback and

conversation Keep fairly error
peer centered: short corrections
pair or small discussions should be
group work general
 01 Plan 3 or 4 different activities per lesson with SIMPLICITY; don’t try
and pack too much into one class.

INVOLVE OTHER SKILLS like listening, reading or writing to provide

sufficient inputs and to let the students exposed more into the
target language. 02
Use SCAFFOLDING to help the students producing the target
03 language, such as pictures, videos, songs, or games. The scaffolding
would provide prompts and more variations of activities.

Use BREAKOUT ROOMS feature in Zoom. It allows your students to

have longer speaking practices with their peers. 04
 Aims of 01 02

speaking Introduce and

recognize new
Encouraging and
engaging

lesson words/ target

language
students in
speaking English

03 04
Practicing new Practicing
words and fluency
target sentences
Pictures/ cards Actions

Dialogues Variety Real objects

of
speaking
Stories activities Oral drillings

Reading or
Breakout rooms
listening
• Introducing &
recognizing
new words/
target
language
• Engaging the
students
 UNIT 10, pp. 72 – 77

Grammar
What do we need from the
supermarket?

Vocabulary
Countable and uncountable nouns
a _________ of

Speaking
Ask and answer
Say and act
A bag of rice
A bottle of oil
A can of tuna
A piece of Swiss
cheese
A carton of milk
A tub of ice cream
5 oranges
6 apples
five oranges

six apples
Uncountable nouns
A bottle of oil
A bag of rice
A can of tuna
A carton of milk
A tub of ice
cream
A slice of
cheese
Listen and number
a piece of a bag of a bottle of

a can of
a tub of a carton of
 (1) a can of
(2) a bag of (3) a tub of

(4) a carton of (5) a piece of (6) a bottle of

How good is your memory?
2
5
1
3
4
6
Zoom in – guess the picture
0 You’ll see a picture zoomed 100x.
You have to guess what it is.

1 It’s the teacher vs. the class battle. If

0 you cannot guess it right, the
teacher gets the points.
2
0 The class can only guess 3 times.

3
0 1st guess 5 points; 2nd guess = 3
points; 3rd guess = 1 point

4
 2
5
1
3
4
6
What do I have?
What’s in your fridge?
What do you have?
• Practicing
accuracy in
using new
words and
target
language
• Engaging the
students
 UNIT 1, pp. 10 - 15

Grammar
How much is this?

Vocabulary
Daily Needs
Adjectives describing prices

Speaking
Ask and answer
Say and act
Half conversation
Louie I need to buy some shampoo and toothbrushes.

Anna How about these toothbrushes?

Yes, these look good. How much are these

Louie
toothbrushes?

Anna I don’t know.

Jeff I will find out!

Expressions
Chained Q & A
• Practicing
fluency
• Engaging the
students
20 questions
01 Guess 10 things I have in my fridge.

You can only ask Y/N questions. I

can only say Y/N. For example, “Do 02
you have a carton of milk?”

You have 3 minutes to guess them

03 all.
01 Find someone who

02 Class survey

Acting out reading

03 passages

Discussions and
04 presentations
How to get teenagers interact in speaking
activities?
 Teaching principles
Drill the
Make them language since
Explain why
believe the goal the students’
your method is
is easy to voice is safe as
important
achieve a crowd of
voices

Keep Feedback and

conversation Keep fairly error
peer centered: short corrections
pair or small discussions should be
group work general
Create the Establish Suit to their Give
dynamics rapport interests challenges

Don’t just A genuine Take time to get More difficult

lecture. Vary interest in them to know their tasks will
topics, types of and their lives interests and require more
tasks, etc. will really using them in concentration
Come up with improve your your planning. on the part of
unexpected, relationship Take into the learners and
original tasks to with teenagers. account their will stretch their
break down preferred type minds thus
classroom of activities increasing
routine. student
engagement
Ask me the correct questions
1 2 3

38 2013 48
4 5 6

2 6 5
 UNIT 2, pp. 24-25

Grammar
Object pronouns

Vocabulary
Fun activities

Speaking
Listen and repeat
Describe what’s someone doing
Rank the activities
Play bowling
Do puzzle
Rest and relax
Do some physical training
Perform
Guess the picture puzzles
 UNIT 4, pp. 48-49

Grammar
Describing objects

Vocabulary
Objects around us

Speaking
Ask Y/N questions to guess the
object
Treasure hunt
Find and show!
You will see a list of items you have to find and bring in front of
the camera. 01

02 You have 3 minutes to find all the items in the list.

You will hear a countdown, signaling the time is almost up. You
have to hurry going back to your screen. 03
Show and share what you find. Tell the class the reasons why
04 do you think the items meet the criteria.

The most creative answer wins a point. 05

 1 is soft and you can sit on it

is made of metal, small and

2 stainless
Find
is hard and you think it’s from
something 3 outer space
that…
Small but heavy (heavier than
4 you)
Is made of cardboard and
5 square and light
 20 QUESTIONS
Can you guess my top 5
furniture and home
appliances I am thinking?

Ask me a YES/NO question:

“Is it big?”
“Is it round?”
“Do you sit on it?”
“Does it produce sounds?”
“Do you use it for washing
clothes?”
 UNIT 8, pp. 100-101

Grammar
Present perfect vs past simple

Vocabulary
Adventures activities

Speaking
Asking Y/N questions
Find someone who
Past participle verb forms (V3)
 A B C
Ghony Anno Citra
Siti Zahra Alma
Indah Ira Mases
Ni Wayan Desi Seprianti Sri Indarti
Debby Lilia Giani
1 2 3 4 5 6

ARISE BE BEGIN BRING BREAK BUILD

7 8 9 10 11 12

BUY CATCH CHOOSE COME COST DO

13 14 15 16 17 18

DRAW DRINK DRIVE EAT FALL FEEL

19 20 21 22 23 24

FIND FLY FREEZE FORBID GET GIVE

25 26 27 28 29 30

GO HEAR HIDE HIT HOLD KEEP

31 32 33 34 35 36

KNOW LAY LEAVE MAKE PAY SEEK

Complete it and say it out loud
01 You/ eat?

02 She / go out?

03 You / meet / Hyun Bin?

04 He / study / English / before?

They / see / something

05 strange?
Find someone who
 Teaching principles
Drill the
Make them language since
Explain why
believe the goal the students’
your method is
is easy to voice is safe as
important
achieve a crowd of
voices

Keep Feedback and

conversation Keep fairly error
peer centered: short corrections
pair or small discussions should be
group work general
Create the Establish Suit to their Give
dynamics rapport interests challenges

Don’t just A genuine Take time to get More difficult

lecture. Vary interest in them to know their tasks will
topics, types of and their lives interests and require more
tasks, etc. will really using them in concentration
Come up with improve your your planning. on the part of
unexpected, relationship Take into the learners and
original tasks to with teenagers. account their will stretch their
break down preferred type minds thus
classroom of activities increasing
routine. student
engagement
Thank you!