Speaking activities for online lessons!

 Hello everybody,

Since all of our lessons were moved to the online platform, we have been struggling about moving our activities to the online environment too. Making our students speak was already a difficult task on our face-to-face classes and they have become even more difficult now that we don't have that contact with students to used to have.

I was thinking about what we could do to make our students speak and promote speaking activities in class, and I came up with the idea od sharing my favourite activities with everybody in the teaching community. I have been lucky enough to have met people in my life that were kind enough to teach me lots of things and I'd like to return the favour by teaching others what I have learned in these 21 years of my teaching life.

I created this document with some of my all-time favourite speaking activities we could use in class, they have been adapted and tested to work with online lessons. And I decided to share this with you because that's what members of a community do, help others become better.

Every piece of feedback is appreciated, if you try any of these activities I'd like to know how they work out and if you have any problem or maybe any suggestion to improve the activity.

 

You can download the material here!

I hope you enjoy the material and put the activities in use.

Greetings!

I´m back

 Hello everybody,

I know this is a very young blog and I did not have many followers, but I had some and those people we asking me where I was and when I would return to keep on writing. I have been away a long time already (I think more than a year) and on top of that, 2020 was not very gentle to us, it actually was a very tough year... maybe the toughest one we have ever experienced in our short lives.

It is time to come back to writing and blogging, I was expecting this to be a place where I would share experiences and exchange ideas and techniques with other people, or at least to share my knowdledge and everything I learn with you, this time I will work towards that goal.

Thank you for always asking me to come back, thank you for always asking me to write again. I hope don't disappoint you this time and I stick around for a long time.

Thank you and see you in my next post.

Erick Maguiño Matusaki