Speaking Activities for the Classroom
Dangerous and Crazy Driving Habits
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- Are You a Fruit
- Miming the Words
- Draw Pictures and Guess the Words
- Can You Guess What Word This Is
- Write a List of Words According to Colors
- Colors and Associations
- Write a List of Words to Match the Verbal Modifiers
- Who Can Think of The Most Words with Similar Endings
- Can You Fill in the Boxes
- Hints for Guessing Words
- More Related Words
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Dangerous and Crazy Driving Habits We see bad driving habits on the city streets, on the highways and motorways.
Get the students to write a list on the board of such bad driving habits : Speeding or driving beyond the speed limit
Cutting in front of other vehicles without looking Selfishly switching from lane-to-lane to try to go faster
Tailgating (driving too close to the car in front) Overloading pickups so they are not balanced
Packing the vehicle so full that the driver has no rear view Making turns without looking both ways
Flashing headlights to get the car in front to move over Driving too slow in the right hand lane so the car behind cannot pass
Passing other drivers on the left Driving on the left meridian to try to get ahead of cars in the normal lanes
Stopping in restricted areas and blocking the traffic in the lane behind Vans stopping to let out or pick up passengers and holding up traffic
Busses cutting across four lanes and blocking forward movement Slow trucks passing slower trucks on two lane highways
Cars turning right not heeding the traffic in the lane behind them Vehicles picking up children from school parked two and three lanes wide
People talking on mobile phones driving too slowly and not concentrating 70
Everyone in the class is given the name of a fruit. For example, one student is called “apple” and another “orange” and so on all through the group. Here are some fruits to choose from :
apple pineapple mango lychee rambutan orange strawberry papaya guava durian peach raspberry watermelon pamello cherry
plum blueberry sugar melon grapefruit rose apple
Note that some kinds of fruit eaten in Thailand are unknown in English countries. In the bottom lines, you can write in some fruit names we may have forgotten. First, you go around and introduce yourselves, for example,
“My name is grape.” “My name is peach.”
Then, when you have memorized everyone’s fruit/name, the first speaker in the circle calls out the fruit/name of a friend like watermelon, and then watermelon calls out the name of another classmate, immediately, in about a tenth of a second.
The second speaker must say, for example, pamello, and pamello does the same, calling out, for example, strawberry, without the least hesitation, and anyone who does hesitate is out of the game.
It gets more complicated, however, because strawberry and those who are still in the game can no longer use the fruit/name of anyone who has already been disqualified; otherwise, they will be disqualified in turn.
Those who are still in the game must remember the names of their competitors and try to knock them out of the circle by calling their fruit/names and hoping that they will hesitate too long, if they take too long thinking about what fruit/names are still in the game, and what fruit/names are already out of the round and, therefore, no longer able to participate. The last person wins. You can vary this game using names of animals, flowers, vegetables, cars, etc.
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When you make an action before an audience, without speaking, to make the group understand what you mean, this is called miming the word you want to say without speaking.
If I hold my hand and I pretend to drink out of something, and then I pretend to put it on the table when I am finished, the others will start guessing, water, wine, cup, glass.
I can shake my head or finger to mean yes or no. If I mean glass, I can nod my head and smile when someone says glass and everyone will know the answer. A good way to make a game out of mime is to give each student in the class a word on a piece of paper, so only that one student knows each word. Then, each student must go before the class and mime that word, so that the others can guess.
Some examples of words to mime might be : smoking toothbrush baby vote
swimming gun bird
kiss dancing lipstick frog write cooking toothpick monkey read jogging ring elephant knit boxing egg snake hammer meditating tissue fly chop
cleaning arrow mosquito sew fishing guitar kangaroo saw doing yoga drums tiger
breathe thinking trombone pussycat paddle washing banana doggy drink sweeping helicopter King Kong
count driving rocket dragon cook rice tickling dinosaur catfish
make the bed
Another way is to put the students into groups and get them to think of their own list of words to mime and then have a competition to see which team can successfully mime the most words. This is activity that can take on many variations depending on the creativity of the teacher and the students. 72
This is an easy game in which you divide the class into four to six groups. Each group leader is given a list of five nouns or compound nouns, which only he/she and the teacher know. The group leader/artist must then try, by drawing a picture on the board, to make the other members of his/her group guess each word quickly and to shout out the word or phrase as soon as they can guess. Wrong guesses do not disqualify the group, but each wrong guess takes time and there is a time limit of two minutes for each word. A group gets one point for each correct answer. When the first group is finished, the leader of the next group goes to the board and goes through the same process of drawing and guessing, and so on, until all the groups have finished. The group with the most correct answers wins. You can make up the word lists according to the level and orientation of the group, but you might also want to use the following lists as examples :
Gate Spoon Ear ring
Helicopter Fork Mobile
phone Elephant Stereo Balloon Tiger Refrigerator Windmill Alarm clock Pillow
Rocket Group 4. Group 5. Group 6. Armchair Teapot Airplane Couch Water tap
Elbow Pencil sharpener Rice cooker Cat
Ghost Football Banana Crown Buffalo Ceiling fan
An alternative to the above is to get each group to write a list of six to ten words which are appropriate to the level and the field of study of the group members. Then, their leader, who is the best artist, will take the list to the board and start drawing each picture in outline so any member in the classroom can guess what it is. The team that elicits the most answers from the overall class is the winner. A good cartoonist should be able to make us guess by drawing only a few suggestive lines hint at the idea he/she wants to portray. 73
Divide the class into four groups and see which group can fill in the form first. The first team finished stands up and shows the paper to the teacher.
A body of water starting with s sea Similar to tiny s small
The adjective of sin s
A person who herds sheep
s
Similar to tired
s
Given to the winner
p
Object inside seashell
p
Egyptian monuments
p
Used for writing
p
Extremely expensive
p
Germans drink a lot of
b
The place where you sleep
b
Container for wine
b
A kind of bug
b
An unmarried man
b
Someone from Germany
g
A bird people eat
g
Betting to win
g
Very big or important
g
Appear in horror films
g The largest animal e
Another word for energy
e
Looking high-class
e
Costs a lot
e
King of kings
e
All the world
u
Mean
u
Not grateful
u
Not thankful
u
Nosey
c
Cautious
c
Sofa
c
Where we keep animals
z
The study of animals
z
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Finish each question, using a short sentence, to make conversation, addressing a foreign visitor who has come to your country from abroad for the first time.
Did Did you have a good flight? Are
Is Do
Does Have
Has Who
When Where
What kind of How many
How much Why
Can May
Should Could
Would What do you To whom
How did you Was there a
Might I Couldn’t we
Shouldn’t we Mightn’t we
Why do you Will you
Oughtn’t we Shouldn’t we This is an exercise for practicing tenses and thinking and speaking in English. When they have finished, put the students in pairs and have them go through the sheet word-by-word and alternately asking and answering the above-listed questions. The teacher should mix and listen and correct grammar.
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What fashionable items would you be able to buy in the following colors?
Midnight blue Jaguar Burgundy Handbag Turquoise Gemstone Beige Blouse Tan Indigo
Henna Chartreuse Mauve Silver gray Aquamarine Peach Ivory
Lilac Tangerine Rose Platinum Blonde Brunette Opaque Lemon
Mango Cherry
Ruby Emerald Charcoal Purple
Lime Apricot Cream
You can also turn this game around and give a list of items and objects and ask the SDS what colors they would like to have for each one: for example, skirt, dressing gown, evening gown, panties and bra, curtains, sheets, bedspread, pillow, etc. Use your imagination to fit the fantasies of you group.
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In western culture, we often associate different colors with particular words.
Anger red Sad/ unhappy blue
Depression black Envy green Cowardliness yellow Purity white money green Valuable gold Elderly gray Young green Royal purple Passion red
You are designing the decor of a hospital and cannot paint all the rooms the same color because colors affect the feelings of the patients. What colors should you use for the following wards? It’s been scientifically proven.
Heart disease Blue pregnancy Orange depression Yellow children Pink
You are designing your own house and you have to pick the colors for painting the walls for the different rooms. What colors would you use?
Living room Dining room
Master bedroom Children’s room
Kitchen Recreation room
Bathroom Give the reason why you would choose these colors for these rooms. Suggest your own design project and tell about the color combinations.
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Supply a noun from nature to go with each of the words in the boxes below : Soothing Trickling Sighing Moaning Whistling Howling Whispering Hissing Slithering Hovering Screeching Rattling Shaking Thundering Trembling Quaking Shivering Squeaking Prickling Rustling Murmuring Twittering Screaming Bubbling Gurgling Roaring Rolling Shimmering Twinkling Gleaming Sparkling
matching words. This exercise will be a bit difficult and metaphorical for some students, and so it would probably better to let them use a dictionary. 78
Divide the class into four groups and cut the boxes below into four strips. Then, let each team draw a slip from a container so each group has a class of words with the same endings. Then, see which team can think of the most words ending as indicated in the boxes. For example, words ending in “ology” or “tic” or “ize” or “ist.”
Sociology
psychology
frantic
antic
apologize
mesmerize
specialist
existentialist
visionary
apothecary
When finished, read the words to the class to be sure that they really exist. If they have the luck of the draw they’ll get an easy class of words to work with.
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Write a list of grocery items that are not considered to be expensive :
rice
Write a list food items that are considered to be very expensive : lobster
Write a list of words that are associated with pleasantness : soothe
comfortable
Write a list of words that are considered unpleasant : screech
greedy
Write a list of words that are considered good human characteristics : honesty
sincerity
Write a list of words that indicate bad human qualities : deceptiveness
secrecy
If there are not enough spaces, turn the page over and write on the other side. 80
Put the students in four groups and see which team is first to fill in this sheet. Sometimes there may be more than one word that can be a correct answer.
If we have the sun in the day what do we have at night? Moon What do you put under your head when you are sleeping? Pillow The name of an animal that is an emblem for Australia
Aquatic fish with a long jaw and sharp teeth Where airplanes land
Where you can borrow a book A sport for tall players
The opposite of heaven The opposite of clever
The opposite of kind The opposite of generous
Aboriginal weapon that flies in a circle You hold over your head when it is raining
Where you go to get a passport Amphibian animal that sleeps in the sun on shore
The biggest mammal that swims in the sea A kind of public transportation that travels underground Where you go to get married officially
What you must buy to ride the sky train In what does a gentleman normally carries his money?
What does a mountain climber wear on his feet? What does a driver turn to steer the car?
What does the doctor use to listen to your heart? What do you call people who do not eat meat?
Who cannot hear? Who cannot speak?
Who cannot walk? What do we call your mother’s sister?
Your uncle’s son? Your wife’s mother?
All the people who are related to your family are called What do we call a site on the Internet where we can chat? What do we call animals that we keep in the house?
What is your best friend’s nickname? 81
Give the students a list of words that are somehow related to the one in the first box. Those requiring assistance may use a dictionary or thesaurus if they want. The group that is finished filling in all the boxes first stands up and shows the sheet to the teacher, who then gets them to read out their word lists, so the others can check for correctness. It’s actually hard to have a wrong answer because you can say any related-word that comes into your head.
Pollution smog chemical noise environment Illness doctor nurse hospital
medicine Housework broom mop
dishes washing
Traffic jam congestion loud stressful Politics election vote campaign delegate Authority official government federal
municipal Military general colonel major captain Education teacher examination grades classroom Ministry education commerce defense transport Nature trees fresh air grass stream Cosmetics mascara eye-shadow lipstick powder Poverty poor hopelessness hunger starvation Society structure infrastructure welfare action Love
Employment
Security Mechanical
Electronic Humanitarian
Global
Local
Contestant
Musical
Luxury
Collection
Dreams
Desires
Desserts
Soul
Royalty
Luxury
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