Speaking and icebreaker activities for ESL teachers (multi-level) with pictures

Telling stories vocabulary, pictures & speaking
exercise (PDF)

Lifestyle survey lesson with pictures (PDF)

Travel & culture vocabulary & speaking exercise (PDF)

Talking about roommates speaking exercise (PDF)

Giving advice speaking activity worksheet (PDF)

Discussing power worksheet (PDF)

Talking about slang (PDF)

Computers & the Internet: writing/speaking exercise with pictures & vocabulary (PDF)

What do companies do? work sheet. Talking
about companies & products (PDF)

ESL  love and romance expressions worksheet
(PDF)

Getures:kissing, hugging and shaking hands worksheet (PDF)

Being a celebrity/being famous discussion worksheeet  (PDF)

Telling stories vocabulary, pictures & speaking
exercise (PDF)

Useful things vocab. & questions (PDF)

Talking about annoyances (PDF)

Talking about success (PDF)

Hurry,rush collocations with  vocabulary
and speaking exercise (PDF)

Explaining accidents (PDF)

Environmental issues vocabulary and speaking
exercise (PDF)

Talking about fashion, trends and hobbies (PDF)

Talking about restaurant problems - worksheet
(PDF)

Talking about cities (PDF)

Travel problems vocabulary and  speaking exercise  (PDF)

Booking a room at a hotel-picture dialogue (PDF)

Talking about office problems (PDF)

Pictures for short roleplays in random business
& everyday situations (PDF)

Speaking activity about breaking things (PDF)
First and Last: A speaking activity (PDF)

Discussion communication activity- editing
a magazine (PDF)

Speaking tests incl. short roleplays and
exercises with pictures for different levels (PDF)

Find someone who...for "going to" (PDF)

Find someone who..activity (PDF)

20 questions speaking activity (word)

Three questions game (PDF)

New Friends bingo for students (PDF)

Language function (compare,cause/effect,
chronology) question cards (PDF)

Eternal Mingle: a first meeting icebreaker activity

Elementary Speaking and icebreaker activities for ESL Teachers

Present simple mingler speaking activity (PDF)

Frequency Adverb Drill

Timed Pair Practice for Fluency

Find someone who... likes and dislikes. An ESL speaking activity

Tic tac toe game for routines

There is/there are speaking exercise & game

Story circle: to foster good group dynamics and learning to listen and to relate to each other with respect

Excuse me, where is the….? giving directions/locations speaking exercise (PDF)

Speaking & discussion activities for specific themes (pre-intermediate and above)

Writing a “I Want to Return This” Dialogue(PDF)

"What people do for fashion" discussion worksheet
(PDF)

TV survey and discussion exercise

Consumer Complaint Menu Roleplay

Cool Jobs - A Debate Roleplay Lesson Plan

Celebrities and their contribution to society
speaking lesson

Skills for challenging situations pairwork
exercise (PDF)
Interview your partner & survey exercises

Personal brand interview (PDF)

Personality vocabulary survey (PDF)

Finding a roommate discussion & speaking
exercise (PDF)

Identity theft questionnaire (word)

Fashion questionnaire

Introduction & interview on familiar topics (PDF)

A collection of esl survey worksheets  incl.
topics such as dating, alcohol, shopping, marriage
sports (PDF)

Conversation starter question sheet (PDF)

Shopping vocabulary/discussion exercise (PDF)

Have you ever, would you ever survey lesson

Personal information questions (PDF)

Interview your classmate about his/her life (PDF)

Dream survey (PDF)

Sentence Starters

Expressing yourself (PDF)

Fifty Reflective Sentence Starters (PDF)

Travel sentence starters (PDF)

Short list of sentence starters (PDF)

Student A/Student B pairwork speaking
activities

Pairwork interview exercise (PDF)

The happiness graph (PDF)

University schedule info gap exercise (PDF)

Exchanging info about a company info gap-see p.2 (PDF)

Find the differences in  two pictures of people
working in an office- see pages 4 & 5 (PDF)

Pairwork personality profile activity (PDF)

Things in the home pairwork crossword (PDF)

Food/drink pairwork crossword (PDF)

How long does the ferry take ? (PDF)

What are you going to do this weekend? (PDF)

Conversation starters

Conversation starter cards 1 (PDF)

Conversation starter cards 2 (PDF)

Conversation questions list (PDF)

Grammar/language related speaking activities for ESL classrooms

Urban complaints guided conversation lesson (PDF)

Tell me why ..survey questionnaire using
comparatives (PDF)

Expressing likes and dislikes with  gerunds &
infinitves worksheet (Word)

Jobs & adjectives partner interview worksheet (PDF)

Adjectives with –ed and –ing – Giving Opinions

What do YOU think about....? describing situations
speaking lesson using -ed adjectives

Comparisons speaking activity

Group speaking exercise for debate expressions

Pairwork speaking activity for discussing probability in the future

Adjective class survey lesson

Find someone who... is interested or interesting. An ESL speaking activity

Past tense story telling activity with sentence
starters (PDF)

Have you ever..? interview exercise: get with a partner and share some of those painful memories.

Collocations speaking exercises

Guessing game for large groups with pictures for present continuous

Speaking  activities for ESL classes (pre-intermediate and above)

"A luxury I do not want to do without" speaking
exercise - see p.4 & 6 (PDF)

Selecting a Venue for a Business Conference
& Selecting the Employee of the Year
speaking exercises (PDF)

Sample interview questions for  intermediate Speaking Test (PDF)

20 questions global issues speaking activity (PDF)

Finish the Sentence

Discussion cues: Giving opinions with feeling

Do you agree? Read the following statements, discuss them and try to reach an agreement.