Icebreaker questions are a great speaking activity that can be used not only at the beginning of the new school year but whenever there is a need for a warm-up activity, group speaking activity, pair work, or a quick fun speaking activity. This speaking activity contains 20 icebreaker questions for…
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Conversation Questions Passive Voice: ESL Speaking Activity
Passive Voice Conversation Questions Form: a form of the verb ‘to be'(used to change the tense) + past participle Tense Active Passive Present simple I make dinner. Dinner is made (by me). Present continuous I am making dinner. Dinner is being made (by me). Past simple I made dinner. Dinner…
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Popular ESL Conversation Topics for English Practice
This activity for adults and teenagers contains five ESL conversation topics and fifty conversation questions. It starts with everyone’s most favorite topic: Tell me something about you. People love to talk about themselves, so let them! You can also watch this interesting Ted Talk about being ourselves. If you love…
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ESL Role-play Worksheet: Food
In this post, you will find role-plays on various topics connected to food. With these role-plays, your students will be discussing the best dishes in the world, ordering food they don’t know, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of delivery and cooking, and choosing the best diet. There is another restaurant-themed…
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ESL Exam Speaking Picture Description and Questions
This ESL exam speaking task based on picture description and questions will help students prepare for a number of international exams, as well as local school leaving examinations – e.g. Matura. In many English exams including FCE students will have to talk about/describe pictures. The format varies, the examination paper…
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12 ESL Negotiation Role-plays: Real-life situations
We want to teach our students real-life skills, don’t we? It sure is nice to read Shakespeare and discuss metaphors, but it is not what our ESL/EFL/EIL (or whatever you call it) students need. They need to practice their speaking skills in a way which resembles real-life situations as closely…
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Unfinished Sentences ESL Speaking Activity
Unfinished sentences ESL speaking activity is great for revising grammar, as a warm-up or a conversation starter. It can be used with groups of various sizes as well as in one to one classes. Finish the sentence. Tell your story. 1. I was very surprised when__________________________________________________. 2. What I…