Stacks of teaching oral English articles on improving fluency, spoken accuracy, range of language, etc. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Articles on free conversation
Adapting free conversation classes – NEW
Good free conversation classes
General articles on teaching speaking
11 instant controlled practice speaking activities – NEW
How to teach conversational reactions (including conversational reactions games) – LINK UPDATED
How to teach starting and ending conversations – LINK UPDATED
How to teach small talk – LINK UPDATED
57 ways to improve your fluency
Activities for conversation exchanges
15 ways of dealing with students who pause before they speak
Speaking games for beginners and false beginners
15 fun ways of practising telephoning
15 Q and A personalisation games
Discussion questions- problems and solutions
Discussion questions to use with images
How to teach telephoning – LINK UPDATED
Articles on brainstorming
Problems with brainstorming in EFL (with solutions) – LINK UPDATED
Different ways of brainstorming in EFL classes
Articles on spoken error correction
Why doesn’t my teacher correct all my mistakes when I am speaking?
Alternatives to spoken error correction – LINK UPDATED
A well-balanced use of error correction – LINK UPDATED
Articles on pairwork
Why your students don’t want to do pairwork – LINK UPDATED
Why does my teacher make us work in pairs?
A well-balanced use of pairwork – LINK UPDATED
Articles on speaking exams
How to teach IELTS Speaking Part One – LINK UPDATED
How to teach IELTS Speaking Part Two – LINK UPDATED
Functional language for IELTS Speaking – LINK UPDATED
Classroom practice for IELTS Speaking Parts one and three
FCE Speaking Part One (teaching tips, lesson plan and worksheets)
FCE Speaking Part Two (ditto)
FCE Speaking Part Three (ditto)
FCE Speaking Part Four (ditto)
Related pages
Teaching pronunciation articles
Teaching functional language articles
Teaching grammar articles (including loads of speaking games for each point)
Updated 27 November 2022
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