Lesson 2 - Speaking activities

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

Speaking!

Today

- Various speaking activities 

- How to ask and answer questions

- How to talk about an object/picture

BUT FIRST:

Aims:

• I'm more confident when speaking English.
• I know enough words to tell my opinion about something.
• I know how to form questions in English.
• I know how to answer questions in English.

1. Fishbowl assignment

Instructions:

• Er zijn 2 cirkels: een 'Inner Circle' en een 'Outer Circle'.
• De Inner Circle gaat in gesprek (in het Engels, natuurlijk) over een bepaald onderwerp.
• De Outer Circle is stil, totdat je jezelf toevoegt aan het gesprek door iemand in de Inner Circle op de schouder te tikken en te vervangen.

VOORBEELDOPDRACHT -  ENGELS

Monic let op dit aandachtspuntje: Ik richt vaak op 5 sprekers tegelijk, maar pas dit aan a.d.h.v. de groepsgrote; wat goed voelt en wat bevorderlijk is voor het gesprek! 

Topics:

• Home work should be banned in schools.
• Primary schools should allow pupils to use ChatGPT.
• School uniforms improve student performance.
• All students should be required to learn a new language (other than English).

Instruction:

Discussion assignment

• 2 rings of people: Listeners & speakers
• Speakers dicuss the given topic
• Listeners can tap one of the speakers on the shoulder to switch out and join the conversation 
• Everyone has to have joined the conversation at least once

2. Interview celebrity

• You are going to interview someone! 
• Choose someone you admire and whom
  you wish to ask 5 questions
  (he/she doesn't have to live anymore)
• Choose someone you know quite a lot about!
• Choose 5 verbs from the list you'll see in the next slide, write these verbs down

Choose 5 verbs:

decide	hate	love
offer	prefer	move
win	continue	buy
wait	consider	change
keep	forget	repeat

Make 5 questions:

• Make 5 questions with each verb
  
• Make sure you can answer these question yourself!
• These questions are the ones you are going to use in the interview
• For example:   
  - What did you love about being the president  of the USA?    - Did you like to move to The White House? Why? Why not?

Grammar help

If you find it difficult to make the questions, look at this site:

https://www.espressoenglish.net/an-easy-way-to-form-almost-any-question-in-english/

The Interview

• Make pairs
• Give your partner your own questions 
• You take the role of the person you wanted to interview,
• While your partner asks you the questions you just made.
  
• You both take both roles: interviewer and being interviewed

Did you improve: 

• How to ask questions?
• How to answer questions?
• Your Fluency
  
• Your Pronunciation
• Your English

Aims:

• I'm more confident when speaking English.
• I know enough words to tell my opinion about something.
• I know how to make  questions in English.
• I know how to answer questions in English.

Name one thing that you've learned from this lesson

Thanx! 

Cya next week!!