New Book: 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities

My new book is up on Amazon: 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities- For Teenagers and Adults. If you teach middle school, high school or university, I think you'll find it useful. The activities really are low or no prep so you can pull something together in the last few minutes before your class.

I take a student-centered approach, unlike many of the other books out there because after all, your students should be working hard, not you. You're already really good at speaking English!

39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities: For Teenagers and Adults

The book is now complete! It will be available for free within the next couple days, but the link is secret unless you sign-up for my email list. I promise to respect your privacy and will never share your information or email with anyone.

The normal price will be $2.99 on Amazon.

Top 5 ESL Speaking Activities

Top 5 ESL Speaking Activities

Here are some of my go-to speaking activities for conversation classes. While many of the activities are designed for adults, some of them can be adapted really easily for kids too. I try to make activities that are interesting, fun and interactive and I hope you find some of them useful in your classes.

Small Talk Warm-Up Game- a fun activity to practice this important skill that's hard to design good activities for.

Just a Minute Speaking Activity- an excellent warm-up for intermediate-advanced level students

Problem/Advice- it's also a great reported speech activity

Tell Your Story- Another activity to work on reported speech

Taboo- ESL speaking game for kids and adults

ESL Speaking Games and Activities

ESL Speaking Games and Activities

If you're looking for some solid ESL speaking games or activities for your classes, check out these posts over on my other site, ESL Speaking.

Small talk ESL speaking game- adults, beginner--->advanced levels.

Problem/Advice: Reported speech speaking activity- adults, intermediate--->advanced

Daily Schedule interview activity- kids and adults, beginner--->intermediate

Conversation Starters for ESL students- kids and adults, beginner--->intermediate

Role Play ESL speaking activity- kids and adults, beginner--->high-intermediate

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Free Talking and Why I Loathe It

Why I hate Free Talking

Over on my other website, ESL Speaking I talked about free talking and why I loathe it. It got a lot of discussion and comments over on Facebook.

The original, quite controversial post: ESL Free Talking

The explanation: Free Talking and Why I Loathe It, Explained

A Fun Reported Speech Activity

Problem and Advice- a fun reported speech activity that I talk about on my other blog, ESL Speaking.

39 Low-Prep/No-Prep ESL Speaking Activities

ESL Speaking Activities

The book is in the final editing stages and will be available by the end of May; I'll be giving it away for free, but only to members of my mailing list. I promise to respect your privacy.

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In the meantime, check out this website- ESL Speaking: Games, Activities and Resources. It's perfect for when you're planning your lessons and need a new idea or two.