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Reader Submissions: Teachers Share Conversation Lesson Plans for the ESL / EFL Classroom

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Teaching conversational skills is an essential in any English learning situation. We all have books that provide lesson plans, exercises and practice pages. As any experienced teacher will tell you, sometimes that is not enough. Most teachers have favorite speaking activities and lesson plans that they use that are not directly out of the book. This is the chance to share one of your favorite, and, more importantly, effective speaking lesson plans and activities with your fellow English teachers around the world. You can also browse other teachers' conversation lesson plans to get some quick help in a pinch!

Conversation Lessons

Pronunciation Lesson Needs

Pls include Rationale per Lesson, Goals/Objectives, Materials and Refernces, Detailed Procedure, Homework and Suggested Other Materials to Enhance the lesson. Must be expressed in outline or paragrap…More

Use varied resources

we cannot place all the students together we have to by ferket them according to their abalities and capacity of grapping it only depends upon the selection capacity of teachers . we should begin tea…More

Childhood memories / Bucket List

1. Students have 5 minutes to prepare a story about one of their first memories from childhood. They are instructed that this exercise is practice using the past tense of verbs as it is a story from …More

Writing Activity

1. Class Objectives: Write out the goals or objectives for class. Try to limit these to one or two things. 2. Connection to Course Goals: Describe how your daily objectives connect to the overall co…More

Dialogue Role Playing

warm up: brainstorming the main idea then get thoughts from the students on how to start a conversation with new pepole.continua: i'll reed the dailouge for the accurcy and give the the new words tha…More

Various Tips on Pronunciation

verb, sentence patterns, tense formationcorrection of errors, make the student read the passage for reading practise. sentence construction, read the passage aloud by myself and explain the pupils th…More

Bilingual Japanese Magazine

I or we then read it in English picking up new vocabulary and looking up new words and then discuss the article. A word of Caution, sometimes the English is not written well, but in most case it goo…More

Talking About Historic Events

I like to project the table of images on a screen to focus attention.Each student in turn announces their chosen event and the class suggest which decade it happened in. Next, the student speaks abou…More

Conversation Lessons

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