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2. Encouraging your learners to
speak in class
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3. Why it is important

4. Oh no, it’s me!

5. What can you do?

6. Are you doing all the talking?

7. This could be the result!

8. Establish the right atmosphere

9. Make it easy
• Scaffold
• Provide vocabulary and structures
• Pitch it slightly below their current level

10. Try using music

11. Movement

12. Dictation ideas
• Running dictation
• Shouting dictation

13. Personalisation
• What do I know most about?
• Who can I talk about most easily?
• Who is most interesting to my classmate?

14. Example tasks:
• My house
• My family
• My best friend
• My first / best/ worst job/ holiday
• My pet
• My hobbies
• My last/ best/ worst birthday
• Last year I…. Next year I’m going to ….
It’s a long list!!

15. Setting a clear task
• Clear instructions
• A specific endpoint

16. Repetition is good!
• Don’t be afraid to do it again…and again…

17. HOTS or ‘Higher Order Thinking Skills’
• Bloom’s taxonomy
• Ordering, ranking, analysing etc.

18. Giving opinions

19. Controversial Topics

20. Don’t give up