The best recording is a useful medical overall fluency activity involving a tape or digital recorder or the language laboratory. The learner speaks onto the tape talking about a previous experience or describing a picture or set of pictures. The learner listens to the recording noting any points where improvement could be made. Then the learner re-records the talk. This continues until the learner is contented with the recording. This technique can involve planning and encourages repetition through the setting of a quality-based goal.
In storytelling the students should briefly summarize a tale or story they heard from somebody beforehand, or they may create their own stories to tell it to their classmates. Story telling fosters creative thinking and develops students' speaking skills, especially if this activity is often used during the classes. It also helps students express ideas in the format of beginning, development, and ending, including the characters and setting a story has to have.
The story completion is a very enjoyable, whole-class, free-speaking activity where the students sit in a circle. For this activity, a teacher starts to tell a story, but after a few sentences he or she stops narrating. Then, each student starts to narrate from the point where the previous one stopped. Each student is supposed to add from four to ten sentences. Students can add new descriptions, characters, events and so on. Such kind of activity helps the students to develop not only their speaking skills, but also teaches them to express their own opinion and develop their memory.
The reporting activity is very useful for fluency development. Before coming to class, students are asked to read a newspaper or magazine and, in class, they report to their friends what they find as the most interesting news. Students can also talk about whether they have experienced anything worth telling their friends in their daily lives before class.
Students can also conduct interviews on selected topics with various people. It is a good idea that the teacher provides a rubric to students so that they know what type of questions they can ask or what path to follow, but students should prepare their own interview questions. Conducting interviews with people gives students a chance to practice their speaking ability not only in class but also outside and helps them becoming socialized. After making interviews, each student should present his or her study to the class. Moreover, students can interview each other and "introduce" his or her partner to the class.
