I designed this material to deliver a teacher training workshop for English language teachers atteding NYS TESOL 2024 conference. The workshop is about how to design effective speaking activities in English learning classes.

1. Mahmoud Mokhtar

2. Mahmoud
Mokhtar
• Academic Manager
• Teacher Trainer
• Business English Teacher

3. If students are not
speaking in a
speaking activity,
what could be
possible reasons
for this?

4. Three main reasons:
• Student-related reasons
• Teacher-related reasons
• Activity-related reasons

5. Three main reasons:
• Student-related reasons
• Teacher-related reasons
• Activity-related reasons

6. Three main reasons:
• Student-related reasons
• Teacher-related reasons
• Activity-related reasons

7. 1. Student-related reasons:
•Shy
•Does not know enough about the topic

8. 2. Teacher-related
reasons
• Did not give clear instructions
• Did not ensure a safe
environment for students to
talk

9. 3. Activity-
related
reasons

10. Ask and answer the following questions in pairs
Student A Student B
Ask your partner the following questions:
1. What’s the date today?
2. When did the session start?
3. What’s the name of the trainer?
4. Did it rain in Alexandria yesterday?
Ask your partner the following questions:
1. when’s your birthday?
2. When does the session finish?
3. What levels do you teach this month?
4. Is it hot in Aswan?

11. Guess 5 criteria
•P__p_s_ful
•Pr_d__tive
•Pr_c__cal
•Pr_di__able
•A_a_table

12. The 5 criteria:
•Purposeful
•Productive
•Practical
•Predictable
•Adaptable

13. 5
Criteria
Adaptable?
Purposeful?
Practical?
Predictable?
Productive?
Can you predict the language?
How much speaking will it generate?
Materials? Preparation time? Easy
to set up and manage?
Can you use it for higher
and lower levels?
Has a purpose? An outcome?

14. 4Ps & an A

15. What’s wrong?

16. Ask and answer the following questions in pairs
Student A Student B
Ask your partner the following questions:
1. What’s the date today?
2. When did the session start?
3. What’s the name of the trainer?
4. Did it rain in Alexandria yesterday?
Ask your partner the following
questions:
1. when’s your birthday?
2. When does the session finish?
3. What levels do you teach this month?
4. Is it hot in Aswan?

17. Prepare a
presentation
talking about
something
you like

18. The teacher gave the students a paper with a paragraph
that was to serve as the springboard for discussion: "I want
you to read the paragraph. Circle words you don't know and
underline the grammatical structures that we've studied in
this chapter. After that, find a person in the room who you
haven't worked with before. Work together to understand
the paragraph. Next, find another partner to discuss the
paragraph. You are going to write two statements on the
board. One statement agrees with the content of the
paragraph and the other contradicts the paragraph. Make
sure to include as many circled words and underlined
grammar points as possible."

19. Work with your partner. One of you is student A (a shop
assistant), the other is student B (a customer).
Read out the following dialogue.
A: Can I help you?
B: Yes, I’d like some bread, please.
A: Here you are. Anything else?
B: Have you got any milk?
A: Sorry, we haven’t got any left.

20. Ask your partners about their work?

21. How about the
Hot Seat Game?

22. Further Readings
• How to Teach Speaking - Jeremy Harmer
• Learning Teaching - Jim Scrivener
• Ken Lackman – Teaching Speaking Sub-skills

23. Q&A
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