Speaking Activities For the classroom and for online

Speaking Activities For the classroom and for online Herzliya PLC November 29, 2020

Speaking Activities - Elementary School Names: Faten, Natalie C , Yael, Rosalynn, Aviv In Class Online Students made mobiles and described how they made them and why they chose to use such materials. Use a wheel with questions encouraging speech. Students are asked to work in groups to share a recipe for a healthy food. Use of Flipgrid to introduce themselves Students thought of ‘ 5 minutes of English’ activities and shared them on a Padlet. Use of Padlet for students to share their video of them reading the book Brown Bear. Small groups in Breakout rooms encourages speaking among the students.

Speaking Activities - Junior High School Names: Avivit, Michal Rap, Meirav, Adi, Yana In the classroom: Online: Tell a true tell a lie: tell the class three fact about you, one is true the other are false. We will have to guess which is the true one. Debate Record themselves. Show and tell Breakout-rooms - various activities. A radio show: an interview (role play) Wordwall - wheel of questions. Describing a picture. Show and tell

Speaking Activities - High School Names: Carole Rosbruch, Ravit Hermel-Landau, Mimi Fuchs, Shiri Haklai, Leah Doryoseph, Phyllis Becker, Syndi Zilcha Inner circle, outer circle: talk to each other about whatever topic the teacher throws out. After a set, short amount of time. Then one circle moves and the teacher gives a new topic. Experts: Randomly assign someone to be the “expert” in anything. They stand say whatever they know. Other students can help out and provide more details and vocabulary. Drunk History: show the sample; invite them to make their own The onion works in breakout rooms also Prezi: Links to clips like the COBE; random wheel for personal information questions Progressive story: works in main room or in breakout rooms. How to: Tell Grandma how to … anything! Taboo - make peers guess the word without saying the forbidden words Role play: this works online too Powerpoint Karaoke

Speaking Activities - High School Names: Shirley Zifroni, Ornit Shachar, Rivi, Danielle COBE Practice - Students practice the different parts of the COBE exam. It’s a social interaction -expressing ideas. In Class Pair the students up. Show them a short clip Have students describe the events in the clip and answer a set of questions about the clip. Online 1. Individual practice - COBE Part A: Provide students with 2 sets of questions. Have them choose 1 set of questions and record their answers on nearpod. 2. Group Practice - On Zoom, divide students into breakout rooms and have them discuss project questions.

Speaking Activities - High School Names: Tal, Aya, Melissa In Class: Online: In Pairs, one students is watching a clip and describes it to his friend. Then they watch it together. Speed date- students sit with a partner, 2 minutes to talk and then move to another student- they need to fill in a form with names of students they spoke to. In groups of 4 or 5 students, do a lucky dip: put questions in a bag, let each student draw a folded question. They have to answer the question and their teammates time them. Any one who speaks for a minute gets some candy Nearpod- quick launch -put a video- describe itrecord themselves. Wheel of Names- small groups- personal response Break up rooms- watch a clip, one person describes the clip and then asks questions to the others related to the clip. Google Classroom: send a clip for class to watch. Ask questions and have them send in an audio file.