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Students engage in quick, timed conversations with different people about various topics. After a set time (for example, 3-5 minutes), they rotate partners.

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The teacher presents a topic that requires a group to come to a collective decision. Students must discuss, negotiate and find common group. This activity encourages compromise, negotiation and the ability to communicate effectively to reach a consensus.

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Hello Everyone!

When it comes to Speaking Activities, I love creating one of these interactive Powerpoints from Tay's teaching toolkit (found in the link above).

They are rule-heavy but spontaneous and can be used as prompts for longer conversations or a way to give more information for an upcoming topic. The students love these games regardless of their age!

The most popular so far has been the pokemon edition where students can be divided in two teams, answer questions and battle each other with the pokemons they get. It can be considered as a stimulus-to-interaction type of activity based on the classification given before.

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Language Speaking Games | Tay's Teaching Toolkit

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Free PowerPoint games for foreign language educators that focus on speaking as a primary or secondary skill.

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Classification of Activities (Maria Angela)

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Classification of Activities (Maria Angela)

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Informal chat: rule-light, spontaneous

Discussion/group formats: rule-light, spontaneous

Discussion systems: rule-heavy (so the students can be trained and conduct them successfully), spontaneous

Formal debate: rule-heavy, prepared

stimulus-to-interaction: rule-heavy, prepared

role-played interactions: either rule-heavy, spontaneous, or rule-light, spontaneous

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I have been looking for informationa bout this method as well, and as you can see in the pictures, it revolves around a table. It is rule-heavy since it is gor a structure, every student is given a role , its main purpose is to give the student the responsibility of their own learning in a collaborative structure. It is prepared, each student is given a role. For example , they need to analyse a short story. One student, reads, another sets questions, another explains difficult vocabulary and so on and on.

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Spider web discussion is Rule-heavy and prepared discussion since there are rules set for the discussion, there are questions presented to be discussed as well. It is a really sudent-centered activity in which the teacher can assess interactions by drawing lines from student who says something or responds to another , thus forming a web. It could be used to talk about a recently read text, the purpose of the author of a text or just discuss about a topic they need to prepare in advanced to debate but not with the rules of an actual debate, it gives more freedom to the student. Have you used it before?

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This activity is rule-light and spontaneous.

Students pair up and discuss a given question for a set time, actively sharing ideas and responses, there's no time for preparation, students discuss as soon as they are asked. After the discussion, one student rotates to a new classmate with a new question. This process repeats, allowing students to interact with multiple peers, gaining diverse perspectives and feedback from different classmates.

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I think this strategy could be rule-light and prepared, as it helps students process and discuss ideas before sharing them, and it has only a few steps. First, students think individually about a question or topic, next, they pair up to discuss their ideas and finally, they share their discussion with the whole group. This strategy builds confidence in shy students and fosters collaboration.

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Rule-light and spontaneous activities: I can only identify the ones from the video: informal chat and role-play situations, since in fact, students just need to be exposed to a situation or prompt to respond without need of extra preparation.

Rule-heavy and prepared: I consider many of the activities suggested fit this category: debate, role-play roles, different types of discussion, panel of experts and presentations; these demand students to prepare information in advance in order to be ready to share it with an audience, so it requires emphasis on the structure of the activity and how the information will be communicated.