Importance of Three Ts for a wellconducted speaking lessons - Topic - Task - Tool

Topic - Students should focus on expanding or giving ideas about the topic chosen Task - Students should be able to figure out how to accomplish the task given using target language
Tool - Students should be able to understand and talk about the language (the main tool " talk about grammar points

- Is there something everybody in the class could relate to? (avoid topics where students do not have much knowledge in or interest

- !o they want to talk about repeated topics " are they produce new arguments or repeating clich# points?

- people talk more about themselves $ i %ast %resent &uture items' ii (hy the world would be better without )' iii allow students to choose what they want to talk about in the next class

- Take students mind off *+,I-. to use the language' but more on (+-TI-. to finish the task

- %rovide a lighthearted speaking environment " not burdened to talk " encourage free production of language

Ideas$ role-play' debate' explaining preferences' oneminute talk

%rovide students with idioms / sentences / 0uestion tags/ words and vocabulary " useful for fluency during the activity

- %rovide sentences / phrases on board " available for all " avoid dependence on teacher while doing activity

- .ive time for students to prepare words / vocabulary with help of pictures and realia regarding the topic of the activity

34 $ Say It 5nce - 6ake a point to students that you will only say things / instructions once or twice (be consistent - Students who missed out will need to 7ask three' then ask me89 ?6otivating (ords - +ppreciate students who listen well - .ive praise' point out and thank them for their attention

3: $ Turn and Talk - !escribe a process / story - 2et students turn to their partners and explain to each other what they heard
3; $ Student *and Signal - +fter students listen to a opinion' let them hold up 7one finger if they agree' : if they disagree' or ; of they have any 0uestions9 - (ill allow whole-class participation and response

Say (hat? 1 (ays to .et Students to 2isten

31 $ =reating >uestions - (hile listening to a material' pause a few times - 2et students to write down any 0uestions or disagreements to the topic being talked about

3< $ %ay +ttention' %ause' %araphrase - 5rganise a structured opportunities $ refrain one student from talking too much - Teach students to take turns

5=S are fundamental to development of literacy and essential for thinking and learning ; %arts of 5=S " 2istening' Speaking' Aeflecting

Students with @xceptionalitie s

The importance of 5ral =ommunicatio n Skills

=urrent Issues in the classroom

2anguag e Barriers %ronunciatio n and &luency

Cnintereste d Students

+nxiety

Task-based +pproach - +imed to improve a students ability to use the language in order to finish the task =ommunicative +pproach - &ocuses on learning and teaching the proper skills for listening and speaking

Integrating 5ral =ommunication Skills into @veryday 2earning

+pproaches to teaching oral communication skills

*ow to +ddress These Issues

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-give time to process information -emphasis important vocabulary and phrases - %rovide visual support - %rovide dictionary' word list' thesaurus %rovide text early to students .ive students one task at a time