Teaching Speaking
Kaumadee Perera
BA (Hons) in TESL (University of Sri Jayewardenepura)
MA in TESL (OUSL- Reading)
Some Sample Activities from
Grade 11 Textbook; Local
Syllabus
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Stages of a Speaking Lesson
Setting the Scene Practice Production
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Lesson Plan for a Speaking Lesson
Preliminary Information
Level of Students: Grade 10
Unit/theme: Unit 03 (Travel)
Skills focused: Listening/Speaking
Language areas focused: Grammar, Vocabulary, Language
functions
Duration: 40 minutes
Aims
Main aim: To teach to use language functions appropriate to the
given context
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Subsidiary aims: Ss will be able to use the following language functions
appropriately in the given context:
- Greeting
- Offering help
- Asking for information
- Giving information
- Apologizing
- Expressing disapproval
Personal aim: To focus on organizing pair work effectively
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Assumptions: Some of the ss may have experiences in
checking into a hotel
Anticipated problems: Some ss will be reluctant to speak out
in the presence of the whole class.
Possible solutions: Encourage ss to speak by getting them
to make short utterances appreciate them
Instructional procedure:
Setting the scene
Tr discussed the setting to the dialogue using elicitation technique.
(Different categories of hotels, people who patronize these hotels, purpose of
their visit, how many of ss have been to a hotel etc.)
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Tr gets two ss to read out the dialogue.
Asks questions to check comprehension
Tr focuses on language functions, elicits from students different ways of saying
something.
Tr draws students’ attention on contracted forms when speaking.
Practice
Ss practice the dialogues in pairs and tr goes around the class facilitating with
vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Production
Tr provides different situations for students to use the language
functions based on the context. (i.e. Phoning a company to ask details about an
advertised vacancy) – In pairs 10
Thank you
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