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TYPES OF SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
Information gap
Each student in the group has some information required to complete the task or activity; the aim is to share the information and to complete the task. Students don’t know what the others are going to say; and as such it imitates real life conversation. An example being: Students work in pairs; student A has a simple picture which (s)he doesn’t show to B; student B has a blank piece of paper. Student A describes the picture; student B listens and draws it. Finally, students compare what B drew with the original.
You can also use spot the difference pictures; this is where you have two pictures identical apart from a number of small differences. Students work in pairs, they have one picture each; they each describe their picture without showing it to their partner. Through detailed description, they try to find the differences between the two pictures. In the examples above, your choice of picture will determine the type of language used. For example, a street scene will generate different language to a picture of a dinner party. Bear this in mind when planning and during the language preparation stage.
Discussions: reaching a consensus
Choose one of the following subjects: 10 things to take into space, 10 things to take to a desert island, 10 things to take into a desert....
Ask students to work alone and to brainstorm 10 things they would take with them. Alternatively, prepare a list of 20 objects and each person chooses ten from the list. Ask students to discuss their lists in pairs and to come to a consensus; they will need to convince each other that their chosen objects are the most useful. When the pairs have agreed on their lists i.e. they have a new list of 10 items, pair up pairs so that students are working in groups of four. The groups of 4 now have to come to a consensus. Continue pairing up groups to form larger groups until you think the students have lost interest. Conduct feedback on the outcome and the language used.
This is commonly known as the NASA game; I first read about it in The New Cambridge English Course by Swan and Walter.