Creating Motivated Speakers Raeesa Ali English Educational Supervisor at MOE

Learning Outcomes In this workshop, we will: *demonstrate the importance of teaching speaking. *discuss some common concerns on teaching speaking. *practice some effective speaking strategies.

Warming up activity In groups try to discuss the following questions: How much do your students speak in class? How do you prepare speaking activities in class? What materials do you use? What particular problems do your students have? In what ways do you encourage real communication to take place in your lessons?

The importance of teaching speaking To ensure that students are able to make themselves understood, using their current proficiency to the fullest. To help students develop communicative efficiency in speaking, teachers can use activities that combine language input, structured output, and communicative output approaches.

Speaking language input Students use correct language forms/structures listening activities, class interaction *Content input: “information” *Form input :“structure” structured output Students use correct language forms/structures communicative output Students use the language that the teacher has just presented, but they also may use any other vocabulary, grammar, and communication strategies that they know.

In the communicative model of language teaching, teachers help their students develop knowledge by providing authentic practice that prepares students for real life situations that necessitate communication. To help students develop communicative efficiency speaking, teachers can use a balanced activities approach that combines language input, structured output, and communicative output.

Activities to promote speaking 1. Story in a bag Preparation Before class, the teacher fills paper bags with 5-6 random objects. You'll need one bag per group of four students. To make this activity interesting, the objects should be diverse and unrelated to each other. An example of a diverse content bag . a postcard from Italy, a ball, a candle, a mask , a car and eyeglasses Procedure At a signal, each group of students opens its bag, removes its objects and invents an oral story incorporating all the objects found in the bag. The stories become very complex and creative in order to make each object a step in the plot. It's important that the story be oral and not written . When the groups have finished, each group shares its story with the whole class .Each student in the group should tell one part and hold up the related object when it is mentioned in the story.

Activities to promote speaking 2.Picture dictation Teacher will choose one of the students and give her a picture to describe it for the whole class. Students should not see the picture with the other student. Students will listen and draw what they heard. Teacher asks all students to show their drawings to each other to check which are correct. Students can say the differences between what they heard and what they drew.

Activities to promote speaking 3."Secret" Word Students are given a random topic, and a random word completely unrelated to the topic. The student must hide the word in their speech, The other students in the class must listen carefully to the speech, in an attempt to discover the “secret” word.

Activities to promote speaking 4. Impromptu Speaking (Speaking on the spot) Split the class into two teams. use a list of impromptu speaking topics. Have each student choose a number, and respond to the statement without preparation.  The student must continue speaking for 45 seconds when the teacher calls out "stop." As the student is speaking, the other team listens for any hesitation, grammatical mistakes or vocabulary mistakes. If the other team can correctly identify an error, they get a point.

Activities to promote speaking 5. Speaking Cards Students are given different cards that involve interesting scenarios. They can be used in several ways into the class to help students in building on their vocabulary and language skills.

References www.teachingenglish.org.uk www.edutopia.org www.tes.com www.write-out-loud.com