English Speaking Activities
Esl Conversation Topics
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Grammar activity
Future Perfect and Future Forms Breakout
This activity involves playing a Genial.ly breakout game about Future Perfect and Future Forms, which can be played individually or in groups, with the latter involving team-based answering and collecting secret numbers to complete tasks and enter a code.
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Speaking activity
Funny Posts
This activity involves using photos to practice various language skills, including describing, storytelling, and question-and-answer games.
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Speaking activity
Explain Why? Speaking Cards
In this activity, students take turns describing various situations and actions that people might do. The activity encourages discussion and can be adapted for different proficiency levels.
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Speaking activity
Convince me...!
This activity involves presenting and discussing five arguments to convince the teacher to do something, such as going to Paris or becoming a vegetarian, and is suitable for both group and individual lessons.
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Talk about them
This activity is designed to help students revise and practice different tenses through creating sentences or stories about different people, using suggested time expressions, and creating questions in pairs.
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Name 3 unusual things you can do with this thing...
This activity encourages learners to think creatively by brainstorming fun and unusual ways to use everyday objects.
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Video comprehension
What is an Eco-City
This video comprehension activity aims to engage students in a discussion about environment, ecology and the concept of a "green city", develop their related vocabulary, and enhance their understanding through watching a video and completing related tasks.
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Grammar activity
Genially Modals Breakout
This activity is an interactive and engaging way for learners to practice their modal verbs through completing tasks and finding secret numbers to crack a code.
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Speaking activity
Describe this person
The activity involves practicing how to describe a person's appearance using a set of eight picture boards and accompanying adjectives, with the added flexibility of allowing students to include their own adjectives to make their descriptions more detailed.
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Describe the room
The activity involves describing a room using vocabulary, prepositions, and "there is/there are" structures, making it a useful exercise for both written and oral practice.
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Convince me...!
The activity involves presenting suggested statements and situations, and challenging students to support them with at least three convincing arguments, through debate or discussion.
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Speaking activity
Similarities and Differences
The activity involves identifying similarities and differences between suggested pairs of items, such as contacts and glasses or sofa and bed, in order to encourage creativity and critical thinking among students.
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