Speaking Skill Input

By the end of this session participants will have .

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2.
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4.

Importance of developing your learners speaking skill

The different sub-skills and parts of speaking that learners need to develop.
The information about accuracy and fluency and its difference .
Activities for developing speaking skills.

A) Why do we need to develop our learners speaking skills?

A.1 What do you think about speaking skill of English language?

A.2 Activity
FIND SOME ON WHO
Read the sentences below, walk around the room and speak to as many other participants
as you can. Try to find one person who fits each of the sentences. Write his/her name in the
spaces given.
1) . has used pair / group work in speaking skill practice.
2) .. has spoken to more than five people in the training
room.
3) .. thinks he/she needs to do more speaking activities
with his/her learners.
4) .. believes strongly that speaking is the most important
of the four language skills
5) .. does not like doing speaking activities with his/her
learners.
A.3 Why is developing speaking skills important for your learner? Make the list of the top five
reasons?

B What does speaking involve?

B.1 Group Activity

What does speaking include?
What are the different things that we need to teach? Work with your group? Make some
notes below.
Speaking include

Different things that we need to teach in

speaking

B.2 Match the words and definitions together.

No.
1.

Sub-skills
Pronunciation

2.
3.

Functional Language
Non verbal Language

Answers Definitions.
a) Phrases for specific situations.
Eq. Phrase for apology.
b) The Sound of language
c) The selection of language for
particular situations. Eg. For

4.

Appropriacy

speech etc. (Formal language)

d) Common Caution that is done

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6.

Accuracy
Fluency

through our body.

e) The ability to speak easily.
f) Correct use of language.

C. Accuracy Vs Fluency
C.1 Look at the three activities below the develop the learners accuracy or fluency in speaking?
Please write down
A

Accuracy

Fluency

A&F =

Accuracy & Fluency

a) The learners listen to the correct pronunciations of words and repeat them allowed.
b) The learners practice using the simple future with partner. They tell each other what
they will do tomorrow.
c) The learners discuss their opinions on a topic in groups.
C.2 Group Work
What are the different exposures to help learners to speak English fluently and accurately.
Sr.No.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Exposures/Activates of Speaking English language

D. Peer dictation activity

D.1 Ask learner to sit back to back and ask each other written questions on the given sheet. A
will read his questions and B will answer to asked questions.
D.2 When you will have finished the activity, answer the questions given below.
a) What did this activity to develop learners accuracy or fluency?

E. Interview
Select on participants for giving interview and remaining participants will ask questions
to him/her.
E 2. Do you think it is useful activity in your class? why?

F. Practicing Speaking Skill

Demonstration
By the end of this session participants will have .
1. Experience a modal speaking lesson.
2. Reflected on and analyzed modal for speaking English lesson.
3. Planned your own speaking lesson based on taken learning lesson experience.
Eq. Peer dictation, Interview etc.
E. Give the answer of the following questions.
Questions
1. What activities did the teacher do

Your responses

before asking the participants to speak.

2. Why did she/he do these first activity?
3. What was the purpose of activity
speaking? (Interview)
4. How could you do it make interesting?

Template for speaking teaching room

Micro teaching group
Group number (figure)
Group members (figure)
Title of the activity
Presentation time

Information

B.2 Planning for speaking activity

a) Think about and discuss what speaking activity you could do, think about the activities you
looked at.
b) Write a lesson plan using the template given below. Include learning experience, details and
aims for each activity.
c) Prepare any innovative speaking activity.
d) Divide the lesson activities among your groups. Every member will deliver the part of it.
e) Practice the lesson with class and take their feedbacks.

D. Speaking activity lesson plan (Template)

By the end of the lesson
A) _____________________________________________________________________
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B) _____________________________________________________________________
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C) _____________________________________________________________________
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D) _____________________________________________________________________
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D.2
Material needed
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2.

3.
4.

D.3. Lead in
Aim/Aims

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D.4. Description of Activities Step by Step

Step 1.
Step 2.
Step 3.
Step 4.

E. Basic phonetics, grammar & classroom language.

By the end of the lesson.
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6.

Participants will have Definition of R. P & I.P.A.

Participants will have Information about sounds & letters sounds.
Participants will have Information about the slandered pronunciation.
Participants will have Information about 44 sounds.
Participants will have the knowledge and information of functional use of basic grammar.
They will have information about different sentences, types and topics. Eq. voice, article

etc.
7. Participants will have information about different situations and class room language.

Speaking Fluently
The Speaker who spoke about the his/her choice spoke with confidence. He spoke
smoothly and without any unnatural breaks or hesitations. Person observed breath groups.
There are some of the features of fluent speech. Fluent speech has an easy and relaxed
flow. It was neither two fast nor to slow.
Sr.No.
1

Situations
In a social Situation

Conversation
Have you been here long?

Response
Well, three months/

At a conference

Are you from here? / Have you

No, Ive just arrived.

Yes I have been here

been here before?

since my
childhood./No, I am

With a co-

Are you going to Aurangabad too?

passenger in a train
Purpose
Calling attention
Adding a point

from Bangalore.
Not quite. I get off at
Jalna.

Interrupting/Taking turns
Excuse me
May I..?
I would like to share something with you.
Let me add to/share
While you are on the topic, let me bring your
attention to
I would like to add something to what you just

Adding a point/Cutting the conversation short.

Agreement, illustrating with an example

said.
Just to add to what you said now.
It is very interesting!
Thats true. I had a similar experience once.
I agree with what you say, for instance,
Absolutely! The other day

Complete the table by giving phrase for

Sr.No.
A
B
C
D
E

Situation
Father talking to his child about

Phrases for interrupting

i. Hello dear good morning how was your test?
ii.Did you face it confidently?

his/her performance in the latest test.

A Friend describing move to his
i.
ii.
sister
Teacher asking questions to learners i.
ii.
Postman asking address to
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ii.
With a stranger at a garden (about i. Hello I am ./ hi, I am.
ii.What a lovely weather! I am sure you are
nature)
enjoying it as much as I am.
iii.
I hope your comfortable in this weather.
it feels very good.

With a cousin and his home (about

direction)
With a teacher in school (ask career)

i.
ii.
i.
ii.

Useful phrases used to close a conversation

See you soon/later.
I must be going
Ill be in touch
Im glad/pleased to have met you.

Response
See you soon
Goodbye/Bye
Bye for now
I am glad/pleased to have met you too

Useful phrases used to close a conversation

Its been very interesting taking

Response