Activities for teaching speaking

Discussions	can be integrated at any time either for fun or after a content-based lesson choose a topic that students will be naturally lead to engage in let students share their own points of view, personal ideas or beliefs and have them back up their opinions with convincing arguments topics can be as harmless as a discussion about the best band or take a more serious turn by speaking about social problems or current events
Story Time	all students together create their very own story one student starts with a sentence that makes the beginning of a story another sentence is being added by a different student continuing the story, and so on students will most likely be intrigued by the fun and entertaining turns the story can take and want to add their own plot twists
Role Play/ Improvisation Games	these games present a great way for students to challenge themselves and their speaking performance give them an interesting topic and have them start a spontaneous role-play about it remark: give weaker students time to prepare their roles and help them with a few phrases or words to support their needs
Interviews	students conduct interviews on selected topic with various people the teacher can provide a questions rubric as a guideline but students should prepare their own questions as well interviews help students to practice their speaking ability also outside of the classroom
Playing Cards	students form groups of four, each group receives 4 game cards (diamond, heart, spade, club) each car represents one topic, e.g: diamond: money, heart: love, spade: unforgettable memory, club: favorite animal each student will choose a card and prepare 3-4 open-ended questions about the assigned topic have them discuss each topic guided by the prepared questions
Reporting	before starting the lesson write an open-ended sentence on the board (e.g. The best thing about last week was…) give students a view minutes to answer the sentence and make notes have a few students present their answers bonus: you can have students practice tenses and grammar without them noticing it as a grammar practice
Picture Narrating	present the students a sequel of pictures hand out a rubric of questions (who, when, why, how,…) and give them a few minutes to come up with their own story based on the pictures let some students present their story and vote for the best/funniest/most logical one