Teaching Productive Skills to the Students: a secondary Level Scenario

d. 
Mingle Activities: A mingle activity involves learners mingling around and 
gathering information from other students in the class on a given topic. Mingle activities 
have the benefit of maximizing student participation for learners at all levels. 

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e. 
Discussion Activities: 
Any learners can take part in discussion activities, it 
can be about current events, cultural issue, education, work, or anything that is relevant 
to 
learners‟ lives. 
f. 
Problem Solving: Problem solving activities have all of the characteristics 
given for discussion activities. Learners work together to come up with solution to the 
problem.
g. 
Drama and Role-play: 
Using Drama in the classroom setting provides a 
useful and enjoyable medium to discover language. Students can express themselves 
in a variety of ways and may be transported into a world of imagination. Students are 
able to shed their inhibitions, taking on the role of an entirely different character and 
shaking the shackles of culture and social expectations.  
 
h. 
Surveys and Questionnaires: Students prepare questions on topics such as 
cinema, sleep, free time activities, likes and dislikes and conduct a survey by 
interviewing each other and compiling information. 
2.6.7 Developing Classroom Speaking Activities 
In-class speaking tasks, although dialogues and conversations are the most 
obvious and most often used speaking activities in language classrooms, a teacher can 
select activities from a variety of tasks. Brown (1994) lists six possible task categories: 
a. 
Imitative-Drills in which the learner simply repeats a phrase or structure (e.g., 
"Excuse me." or "Can you help me?") for clarity and accuracy.