Entries tagged "speaking"

Getting adult students to speak more can be challenging. Sometimes, students can answer questions quite confidently, but their responses are short and predictable. You ask a question, they give you a sentence, you ask another question and the cycle continues.

Of course, we want our students to speak, but we also want to help them develop the skills to keep a conversation going, explain their opinions and express themselves more freely. Here are nine techniques I use or come back to when I want to encourage my adult students to say more.

If you’ve ever run a discussion activity in class, you’ve probably encountered one or two common issues. Perhaps your students didn’t want to talk, maybe one person dominated while others stayed quiet, or the topic just didn’t spark any interest. In this post, we’re sharing eight essential rules for running engaging and effective speaking activities.

Read on to discover how to set up discussion tasks your students will actually want to take part in.

Running conversation classes might seem easy - just turn up and talk for an hour. You could do that. Or you could do a little bit more and make your conversation classes a lot more effective and easier to plan. In this article we have 3 quick tips for you. Read on!