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Teaching Speaking

The document discusses goals and methods for teaching speaking skills. The main goals are to help students understand how spoken English works and give them opportunities to practice conversation skills. Speaking lessons should follow a sequence of lead-in, presentation, practice, production, and wrap-up. Recommended activities include role-plays, interviews, storytelling, information gaps, and student presentations. The overall purpose is to help students communicate effectively in both classroom and real-life situations.

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Teaching Speaking

The document discusses goals and methods for teaching speaking skills. The main goals are to help students understand how spoken English works and give them opportunities to practice conversation skills. Speaking lessons should follow a sequence of lead-in, presentation, practice, production, and wrap-up. Recommended activities include role-plays, interviews, storytelling, information gaps, and student presentations. The overall purpose is to help students communicate effectively in both classroom and real-life situations.

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TEACHING SPEAKING

Contents:
I. Goals of teaching speaking IV. Conclusion
II. Speaking sequences V. References
III. Activities for teachig speaking

I. Goals of teaching speaking


- Helping students understand how spoken English functions
- Giving them opportunities to acquire conversational strategies
=> The main goal should be encourage the acquisition of communication skills
and to foster real communcation in and out of the classroom.

II. Speaking sequences


1. Lead-in: => to engage the student to the following lesson
- Pictures/ Videos/ Activities/ etc.
2. Present: => to give student the comprehensible input which included
the target structures/ dialogues/…
- Giving the input: Videos/ Articles/ Audios
 Answer questions/ Fill in the blank/ Matching
 Get the main ideas
 Translate/ Explain input if needed
3. Practice: => to help student pratice the structures thoroughly before
using them
- Practice each given structure via activities
- Instruct/ correct pronunciation
4. Produce: => to encourage student using the strutures in
communication situation in class
- Activities: Role-play/ Present/ Discuss

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5. Wrap-up: => to review the target languages which have just been
learned

- Drilling/ Questions/ etc.

III. Activities for teaching speaking


1. Simulation or Role-play
- Students are given a real-life situation which includes the target structures
that they have just learned in the lesson.
- Students choose their role by picking a card of role, then read the
discription of the role.
- They practice the target language by role-playing the given situation.

2. Find someone who


- Students are given worksheet including the information that they need to
ask others.

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- They need to go around the class to interview other students and fill in the
worksheet.
- Time must be limited. Finally, they may given a small presentation about
the information that they have collected.

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3. Telling stories
- Students are asked to work in group
- Each group will be given a sequence of pictures
- They have a chance to look at the pictures, the picture are taken away.
- New group are formed which consist of one student from the original group
- The new groups have to work out what story the original picture sequence
told.

4. Information-gap activities
- Students have different bits of information
- They need to share the information to complete the information
E.g: Find the differences

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5. Student presentations
- Individual student give a talk on a given topic or person.
- Before presenting, time must be given for student to prepare the
information and structure and students have chance to practice in pairs.
- The students who listening to the presentations must be given some kinds
of listening tasts.

IV. Conclusion
- The main purpose of teaching speaking is helping students to speaking
English competently not only in class situation but also in real-life situation.
Therefore, the teachers’ role are to create the environment for student to
envolve in speaking activities, encourage them to speak, and help them
speak correctly.

V. References
 Hamer, J.(2017). How to teach English. Essex, England: Pearson
Education Limited.
 Hamer, J.(2015). The practice of English language teaching (5 th ed.).
Pearson Longman.
 Morska, L.(2003). Theory and practice of English teaching methodology.
Ternopil.

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 Google photos

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