A guide to Teaching English
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A Guide to teaching English
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4.4 TYPES OF SPEAKING ACTIVITIES 4.4.1 Information gap
4.3
Reason for speaking
Students need to feel that there is a real reason for speaking. This is often referred to
as the communicative element. Make sure there is a reason for speaking; i.e. that the
students are communicating something the others don’t know or that the others would
like to hear about. Examples of tasks involving real communication include: information
gap, tasks involving an element of persuasion, problem solving and role play (see
examples below).
Finally, as with all aspects of teaching, it is important to introduce variety and to
choose topics that you think will interest your students.
4.4
TYPES OF SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
4.4.1 Information gap
Each student in the group has some information required to complete the task or
activity; the aim is to share the information and to complete the task. Students don’t
know what the others are going to say; and as such it imitates real life conversation.
An example being: Students work in pairs; student A has a simple picture which (s)he
doesn’t show to B; student B has a blank piece of paper. Student A describes the
picture; student B listens and draws it. Finally, students compare what B drew with the
original.
You can also use spot the difference pictures; this is where you have two pictures
identical apart from a number of small differences. Students work in pairs, they have
one picture each; they each describe their picture without showing it to their partner.
Through detailed description, they try to find the differences between the two pictures.
In the examples above, your choice of picture will determine the type of language
used. For example, a street scene will generate different language to a picture of a
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dinner party. Bear this in mind when planning and during the language preparation
stage.
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