1. Unit 9. Teaching Speaking
Jessica Liu
Warm-up
Reasons for teaching speaking
Speaking sequences
Exercise 2
Kelly Yu
Correcting speaking
What teachers do during a speaking activity
Exercise 3
Holly Chung
Discussion
Exercise 1
Conclusions

2. Clips from Youtube
Baby
Children

3. Q: What phenomenon can you observe from the 3 clips?

4. That’s right! They are speaking!

5. listen
imitate
talk

6. Reasons for teaching English speaking
Provide rehearsal speaking opportunities
Give them feedback
Activate their English

7. Speaking sequences Photographic competition Role-play
Portrait interview

9. Photographic competition
Role of student: judges of photography
Process:
Purpose: students can activate the knowledge they know to discuss
give them five pictures
discuss criteria and give reasons for choosing their favorite picture
Present the results of their groups

10. Role-Play Roles of student: roles of situations Process: Purpose:
A chance of real-life rehearsal
Express themselves freely
the outline of the drama
Characteristics and background
Discuss and imitate the character
Play the role on the stage

11. Portrait interview Role of student: roles in a picture Process:
Purpose: activate their knowledge
students are in groups
Each group selects one of the characters in the picture
Come up with questions for their characters
Put in new groups, and interview each other 11

12. Discussion
Buzz groups
Opposing groups

13. More Speaking Suggestions
Information-gap activities
Telling stories
Favorite objects
Meeting and greeting

14. Information Gap Find out the differences
Different bits of information (Describe and Draw)
Find out the differences
Do a lot of description by Q &A

15. Telling Stories (Favorite objects)(Famous people)
Personal experience:
“Show & Tell”
Use “when, what, where, why, who, and how” to describe
Plus: Clip 1
Clip 2

16. More Speaking Suggestions
Surveys
Famous people
Student presentations
Balloon debate (Moral dilemmas)
questionnaire
Find someone who…
Interacting with others in English

17. Correcting Speaking
What Teachers do during a speaking activity

18. Q: How will you correct your students’ pronunciation or grammar errors during speaking activities?

19. Gender Correction Taking notes during speaking activities.
Constant interruption is prohibited!
It will destroy the conversational flow
Taking notes during speaking activities.
When the activity has finished, ask the students how they thought it went before giving their own feedback.

20. Gender Correction 1. Discuss students’ mistakes with the class
2. Write their mistakes on the board
3. Show their mistakes individually to the students concerned
Not to single students out for particular criticism!

21. Teachers could simply say “Yes” or “No” to students.
Exercise 3. Yes or No
Section 1. Animals
Rule: There are four animals here. Students have to guess what animals they are by describing them in English.
Teachers could simply say “Yes” or “No” to students.

22. Conclusions Provoke “speaking –as-a-skill” Content Correcting Errors
Quantity vs. Quality

23. You are impatient ,and you feel unhappy.
You want to take a vacation.

24. You don’t have enough sleep, because you have to many things to do.

25. Because you are always busy in a whole day, so you don’t have a good mood.

26. You are busy at work, and your boyfriend or girlfriend would complain about it.

27. You have too many things to worry about, so it’s time for you to calm down and think about it.

28. You have too many things to do , and now you should make a plan to do them step by step.

29. If you are single, you would meet new friends and someone you like.