Turn taking games/ worksheets

PDFs and teaching ideas on interrupting, letting others speak, etc. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.

Turn taking index pages

Interrupting page

Active listening page

Teaching turn taking articles (including turn taking games)

12 fun turn-taking activities – NEW

How to teach turn taking

Lists of turn taking language

The big list of turn taking language (by function, at the end of this article)

Photocopiable turn taking classroom activities

Meetings vocabulary turn taking practice (in this absolute bargain e-book)

Talking about meetings interrupting practice (in this cheap as chips e-book)

Speaker or listener simplest responses game (turn taking and active listening)

Turn taking and active listening game

Meetings vocabulary and turn taking practice (with dice game)

Things to do when you interrupt

Turn taking functions card game

Make turn taking phrases from key words

Turn taking roleplays

Turn taking politeness competition speaking game

Conversational reactions Answer me

Conversational reactions Answer me (different version)

Asking for opinions key words and phrases

Headlines vocabulary extended speaking

Pausing/ Filling silence speaking and phrases

Other worksheets including turn taking

Post-discussion discussion and brainstorming

Discussion skills phrases miming game

Related pages

Meetings and negotiations page

FCE Speaking Parts Three and Four page (article and worksheets on this collaborative speaking task, with a real emphasis on turn taking)

Updated 23 February 2023

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