Activities of Teaching Speaking

    

 Activities of Teaching Speaking

According to Harmer (2001: 271) ther some activities to teach speaking, they are as follows:

i)        Acting from script

Students act out scenes from plays or their course books, sometimes filming the result. Student will often act out dialogues they have written themselves. This frequency involve them in coming out to the front of the class. 

ii)      Communication games

Game which are designed to provoke communication between students frequently depend on an information gap, so that one students has to talk to a partner in order to solve puzzle, draw a picture (describe and draw), put things in the right order (describe and arrange, or find similarities and differences between pictures)

iii)    Discussion

Students are reluctant to give an opinion in front of the class, particularly if they cannot think of anything to say and or not; anyway, confident of the language they might use to say it. Many students feel extremely exposed in discussion situation.

iv)    Prepared Talks

Student makes a presentation on a topic of their choices. If possible, students should speak from notes rather than from script.

v)      Questionnaires

Students can design questionnaires on any topic that is appropriate. The result obtained from questionnaires can

then the basis for written work, discussion, or prepared talks.

Sources :

                Jeremy, Harmer. (2001). How to Teach English. London: Longman