Speaking Activities

  So speaking activities will come in many different forms but we can generalize them into three basic types. Control activities tend to be used in the study phase and here, the teacher will be helping the students in terms of what they need to say and how they go about saying it. So, there's a high level of structure within a controlled activity. A guided activity has slightly less structure than this and it can be used in either the study or the activate stages themselves. The final type of activity or class of activity is called creative activity and this one would be used in the activation phase. In a creative activity, we're giving a scenario or a very small amount of structure and we're asking the students to actually create their own answers to this particular question....  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shaling Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Panjin Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit focuses on the productive skills, speaking and writing. There are two general categories of speaking activities: accuracy and fluency activities. Accuracy activities are more concerned with producing correct language, while fluency activities are more concerned with allowing the students to speak and practice the language in a creative manner. Classroom...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luoyixi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In the process of building a strong foundation for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), there are many items to consider. Some of these include: parts of speech, theories and methodologies, tenses, lesson planning, and testing. One of the most important parts of this process is teaching productive skills, including speaking...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in FahaniuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shenyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In the Unit 8 – ‘Teaching productive skills’ I learned many important things about teaching and exercising both 'speaking' and 'writing', which are the two productive skills. I also learned the difference between accuracy and fluency activities. While accuracy activities (usually part of the study phase) are concentrated on producing correct language and are...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tongerbao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is about teaching the productive skills - speaking and writing. A speaking lesson can include accuracy activities and fluency activities. Accuracy activities focus on producing correct language, while fluency activities focus on students having creative freedom in their speaking. It is important to encourage students to speak and help them be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dixiongshan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dandong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit covered teaching the production skills, writing and speaking. First, it covered the topic of teaching speaking skills and the need for fluency activities. In this, it covered activities such as free-based discussions as well as communication games. It covered the difference between activities set for accuracy and set for fluency. Second, it covered the...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shoushan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit covers the productive skills. These are speaking and writing. There are three speaking activities in the classroom (controlled activities, guided activities and creative communication). Often students are afraid to speak in the classroom. It can be the reason of fear to make mistakes, low confidence, no interest in the topic and peer intimidation....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Waziyu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The unit is about productive skills: speaking and writing. Both are focused on accuracy and fluency activities. In speaking lesson, accuracy based activities is controlled by teacher to ensure correct language output. Drilling and guiding the activities are more focus on accuracy. In a fluency-based activity, the output is controlled by the students through some...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liguan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dalian Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This lesson talks more about the productive skills: the speaking and the writing. Although, students of ESL study English to speak, writing should never be neglected because it is also as important as speaking. Writing requires degree of accuracy while speaking requires fluency. However, accuracy and fluency are both equally important and again one should not be...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiafu Jingji Kaifaqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is about teaching productive skills. Productive skills are speaking and writing skills. Both skills are used to communicate. In order to make a communicative activity successful, the teacher should create the students' need and desire to communicate. Speaking activities can be divided into 2 categories according to the aims of the activities, i.e....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shizijie Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dandong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit 12 was focused on teaching the productive skills, speaking and writing, and how they may be different from each other but they still have the same overall purpose of communication. From this unit I learnt that when teaching speaking and writing it is important to know the difference between accuracy activities and fluency activities, and when it is appropriate...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuxun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nantong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. It is the fact, for many years in Vietnam, that Vietnamese students can easily complete grueling written tests, they cannot communicate in English though. Besides the lack of confidence and practice environment, one major reason for their English communication incapacity is their poor pronunciation, particularly the lack of ending sounds. In fact, when you ask...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuangshanzi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dandong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In Unit 12, we learned about teaching productive skills, which are speaking and writing English. Writing and speaking differ in their ability to be fact checked in real time. When speaking an individual has the ability to confirm comprehension and perhaps change their wording if need be in that exact moment in time. Writing by converse requires the language to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Caobuhu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yichng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Communication is essential for everyday life activities. It's impossible not to communicate. Even when you don't speak a word, you communicate. That's because communication represents the way we express put thoughts, our ideas and our opinions. It is as much about effective listening and reading as it is about speaking and writing. In facts communication is built on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taipingzhuang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit focus on productive skills, speaking and writing and how to create a lesson for that. It's important to bare in mind that while writing requires a bigger degree of accuracy, speaking on the other hand will require more fluency. Both are equally important but depending on witch stage of the lesson teachers will be focusing on fluency(activate phase)...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dachangshandao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dalian Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this Unit 12, the productive skills are speaking and writing skills. Those skills are equally important as the receptive skills discussed in previous unit. I’ve read about the accuracy and fluency that form part of ESA method where accuracy is about the correctness of the language being used such as spelling, , pronunciation, vocabulary and structure...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hujia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. People communicate in order to communicate a purpose, to say something, to listen to something, or because they are interested. Accuracy activities are concentrated on producing correct language and ensure the students understand while fluency activities are concentrated on increasing creativity with language as well as the flow of communication. Students may choose...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wujia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Panjin Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I learned that it can be harder for students to improve their productive skills than receptive skills. There are many factors that may prevent students from participating in productive skills activities, so encouragement and motivation are needed. Giving students a purpose in speaking or writing activities will help encourage them to try, even if they lack confidence....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Niangxi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shaoyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. How to teach reading skills depends on which objectives the teacher aims t developing in his/ her sudents and on how lesson plans are structured. To this effect, teachers must take decisions about the objectives of their reading comprehension lesson. For example, the following objectives guide teacher in teaching reading skills. +, Reading for gist? +, Reading for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in QinjiAping Linchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Shiyan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The productive skills, in my definition are skills that require the students to articulate or produce words, sounds, speeches, or sentences either in written or typed form. The productive skills are speaking and writing. The productive skills are essential, and are needed for communicative purpose in our day to day activities. There are other skills being...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daotenaoer Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xilinguole Meng — Xilin Gol? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Introduction In the scope of teaching within the TEFL world, there are two main “productive” skills: speaking and writing. Both are equally important and are used heavily as a means to communicate. This Summative task will review the most effective ways to teach students productive skills, important factors to consider, and useful activities...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gongyeyuan? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Classroom activities using storytelling Classroom activities are necessary for a teacher plan a class. If an entire class is taught by the teacher without interaction, students' interest will be greatly reduced. Once the students' attention decreases, teacher's teaching effect will be affected and the students' learning results will not be achieved. Therefore,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Henglin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiantao, Tianmen, Qianjiang & S? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. What is the Importance of Teaching Productive Skills? Introduction Productivity could be described as what someone or something creates or in other words produces. In the world of education, and in reference to students, most tangible progress can be seen and heard through two specific means of production, the productive skills of speaking...  [Read more]