Speaking Activity Example

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guanyao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang 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. Speaking and writing are substantially different however they both are used for the same purpose – to communicate. In many ways writing is the more difficult skill, requiring a greater level of accuracy. When speaking, any misunderstandings can be cleared up ‘on the spot’. Speaking requires a greater degree of fluency. The teacher must create the need and...  [Read more]

  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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chencelou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang 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. Speaking is one of the most important skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing). We do not only help students to understand, write and read it, but also speak it in a fluent way. Teaching speaking skill for a mixed-ability classrooms is not easy. When we are teaching a classes with has students who are clearly of different levels. They may have different...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shahai 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 focuses on the Productive skills part of the English language, namely speaking and writing. It is very important that the teacher creates the need and desire for the students to participate in a communicative activity. We are shown reasons why students would be reluctant to speak in the classroom, and techniques on encouraging their interaction. We are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pingchao 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. There are many characteristics which define an excellent teacher. One must be caring, motivational, detail oriented, engaging, patient, and attentive, among other attributes. At heart, an excellent teacher is equally passionate about their work and the progress of their students. In addition to embodying these traits, an excellent teacher knows how and when to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wuyao 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. How we should correct mistakes. I am going to break down all the various methods of correcting mistakes during ESL lessons. I believe this is one of the hardest skills to develop as a teacher and it takes a lot of time to perfect. How and when mistakes are corrected have a strong impact on the relationship between the student and the teacher. Too much correction can...  [Read more]

  So, the document itself needs to contain some general information about the class, for example the name of the teacher, the date and time of the lesson, what level of class is being taught and in what room, how many students are we expecting, this is important, when we've got things like photocopying and materials to do, what is the context of the lesson, in other words, what is the lesson actually about, what vocabulary or grammar point is this lesson covering and sometimes it's also useful to write out what the focus of the lesson is. So, in effect, the context of the lesson is telling us the grammar point, for example, that might be the present continuous tense, whereas the focus is telling us how we're going to go about teaching it. Another example to illustrate this: Let's...  [Read more]

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 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 Jichangchanyeyuanqu Guanweihui? 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. Doing outside activities is one of my favorite school activities. Nothing is more stifling than being indoors all day. Children are usually full of energy, so to release that energy, it would be more practical to just have them learn English outside a classroom, where they can be confronted with many objects and people in front of them,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huolianpo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changde 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 more a teacher speak the less attention the learners will pay. Decreasing teacher speaking time can be done with a few practical steps and wonderful teaching methods. It all starts with proper planning. When designing a lesson plan be sure to include assignments and activities that will engage your students and do not call for a teacher dominant role. Using...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangyangsi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yongzhou 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. “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning” – Diane Ackeman. Could not agree more with the quote above as playing games in the classroom has many advantages: The main thing needed for a successful process of learning is, of course, motivation. And playing games certainly increases students' interest and their willingness to participate in the class....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAhedian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhumadian 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. 1.Principles of teaching reading • Reading is a purposeful enterprise Training students to develop their reading skills should be done to fulfill a range of purposes: - To search for specific information through skimming and scanning activities. - To learn and gain knowledge about different topics. - To be entertained. - To react to a text and have a say about...  [Read more]

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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huitengxileyuanqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulanchabu Shi — Ulanqab? 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 roles of a teacher can be varied every day. There are many aspects to the act of teaching that need to be considered in a day-to-day teaching environment. Some roles that a teacher may find themselves with in the classroom include a manager, a prompter, an assessor, an observer, a tutor, a participant and a role model. As a manager, a teacher...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangtian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chenzhou 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. Jack Hunsberger III How to approach lesson planning with the aim of developing independent problem solving Abstraction is in essence, the formation of broader, and more difficult and subjective systems from inputs. It is a concept that can be applied to the four language skills: reading, listening, speaking, and writing. As an idea becomes more abstract and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanxi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha 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. Young learners and adults have different needs and goals in the classroom. Young learners want to be engaged and have rapidly changing activities while adult learners will enjoy a more serious classroom setting. It is the job of the teacher ensure that these needs are met for both age groups. Visual If a teacher is teaching classes with young learners, visual cues...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xianyuwan 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 are discussed the productive skills as speaking and writing, which we use for communicative purpose, when we want to say something, when we want to listen to something and when we are interested in what is being said. Differences between accuracy and fluency activities are presented accuracy focuses on producing a correct language, whereas fluency...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wafangzi 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. In Unit 12 I’ve learned a lot about teaching productive skills. Productive skills consist of speaking and writing, both of them are equally important. The lesson included sections such as: the difference between accuracy and fluency activities, types of speaking activities in the classroom, techniques to encourage interaction, an example of a typical...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chenqiao Zhen? 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. Since the rise of globalization, most schools impose the acquisition of a second language on students in almost all parts of the world. The second language classes are often teacher driven, meaning that it is the teacher that selects the content and directs the classes, thus finding a one-size-fits-all learning method intended to drive most of the students to the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Banqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou? 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 role of storytelling in learning English can be a powerful teaching tool. Storytelling can provide a creative and engaging way for the students to build confidence in their speaking, reading, listening and writing skills. Various methods of storytelling can be utilized in the classroom to achieve different learning outcomes. For example,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongmaozi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Fuxin 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. Productive skills are speaking and writing, both having a person to communicate. When people are communicating with one another we know it they either have a communicative purpose, they want to say something, they want to listen to something or they are interested in what is being said. The teacher must, therefore, create the need and desire in the students to...  [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 ChenjiAhe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhangjiajie 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 have been teaching at a senior high school as an assistant language teacher in Japan for the past year and a half. Here are some of the problems faced by my students and by myself in the classroom and some ways I have found to resolve them. The problem in every school in every country in the world is, of course, motivation, and this is a problem that can...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jieshou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yangzhou 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. At present, foreign language, especially English is considered as a basic subject in high school curriculum, it has the same characteristics as other subjects. The purpose is also to contribute to the formation of human ethics for students. Foreign languages have been included in the educational programs of all levels from elementary to tertiary. For us Hanoi,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuzhou 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. Lesson planning may be my favorite, yet most challenging part of teaching. I love to create fun, engaging curriculum and scaffolding concepts overtime, but I tend to love it too much. My pitfall comes from creating complex, elaborate lessons that cause me to spend too much time giving instruction. In all teaching, but EFL especially, too much TTT is problematic. I am...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heshengqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianning 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. For this Summative Task, I will be discussing the topic of teaching productive skills in the classroom. As opposed to receptive skills learned previously (reading and listening), productive skills focus on speaking and writing. Regarding writing, this function of language education is often the most neglected in the TEFL world, due firstly, to the fact that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YimatuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Fuxin 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. While writing and speaking are considered productive skills (as opposed to listening and reading, the receptive language skills),both require different teaching methodologies and pose different pedagogical difficulties.Speaking is the means through which a good ESL classroom will run and is most often the focus of students trying to learn the language. Speaking commands...  [Read more]

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