Speaking

Topic:

What Is the most important factor for improving Speaking skills?

Speaking Lesson Plan

Instructor: Yvonne	Level: Advanced	Students: # in current class	Length: 50 Minutes

Materials:

Ranking worksheets

Aims:

Main Aims:

Students will be able to express their own thinking.

Students will be able to share opinions with others.

Language Skills:

Listening:  Students should listen what other students’ speaking.

Speaking:  Students should work in pairs to talk about their ideas.

Reading:  Students should read the raking worksheet.

Writing:  Students should rank some orders on the worksheet.

Language Systems:

Phonology: practice pronunciation past tense such as –ed.

Lexis: improve, correction

Grammar: the past simple used throughout conversation.

Function: comparing, expressing and sharing

Discourse: Discussing list with partners and sharing theirs opinions.

Assumptions:

The students are at a high enough level to discuss their experiences.

The students know many works for improving English skills.

Anticipated Errors and Solutions:

Ss might be confused with some vocabularies such as visualizations. Give some detail explanation to students.

The list of words might be too many to do in time. Tell students to do top 5.

References:

none

Pre-Task (Lead-In)
Materials:
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
5 min	Whole class	Guiding Questions Are you interested in learning languages? How many languages do you speak? How did you learn that language? Motivate Today we are going to talk about effective ways to improve English speaking skills.

Task Preparation
Materials: raking worksheet.
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
20 min	Whole Class/	Elicit What kind of methods do you know about improving English speaking skills? Teacher Talk Here are some papers which have some lists. In that paper, you rank them which one goes to the first and the next. At first, you just read the list and rank them alone. After you finish your ranking, you will share your ranking and reasons with your partner. and make you and your partner’s ranking. I will give you 15minutes to do that. ICQ At firtst, Are you going to rank the list with your partners?-No! When will you share your ranking with your partner? -After finishing my ranking! How many time do you have? -15min!

Task Realization
Materials:
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
15min	Whole class	Have you done with ranking? Let’s have a discussion with a whole group. Which one do you think goes to the first? Why do you think that goes to the first? Make a whole class ranking again.

Post-Task
Materials:
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
10 min	Whole Class	Is there any more method which is not on the worksheet? What have you done for improving your speaking skills? Close: All right, there are many important things for Speaking skills. We made some ranking but Everyone think differently. someone might think confidence is the first and other think conversation is the first. Everyone think in different way. There’s no answer on this. Well done everyone!