Free Speaking Activities in English
Teachers and students can use any of these free speaking activities in English:
Free Speaking activities in English ideas for teachers, students and learners of English like describing a photo, guessing a photos, debating, role play, guessing who, interviewing someone and describing someone or something.
A – Describing a photo speaking activity
- The students or learners can take a look at a photo for a minute then describe the photo for a minute or two.
- Students can work alone, groups or in pairs.
- You can choose any photo you like or pick a photo from the ones below.Teachers can create their own photos to suit their speaking activities exercises and culture.
- Below there are many photos to choose from to get the students to speak.
- You can print or download any of these free speaking activities in English.
- Use it for your speaking activities in the classroom or at home an its free.
- Speaking activities with photos is one of the best methods to encourage and motivate students to speak in English with fun.
- Just click on the photo below to download or print.
Example:
What do you see in this picture?
What is this man doing?
Where is he?
How old is he?
Ask as many questions as you can to practice with free speaking activities in English
Try this one yourself, What is it?
Is it a turtle?
Where does it live?
Can you see animals?
Do you like pizza?
Whats your favorite food?
Crab! Do you like sea animals?
How is the weather today?
Sunset is beautiful!
Ancient city! do you like forts?
When it comes to free speaking activities in English you need to as many questions as you can.
Don’t worry about making mistakes and keep asking and answering questions about the photo.
B- Guess the photo game
- Students or learners can play “guess the photo”
- Few pictures (thumbnail size) can be put together on a sheet of paper.
- For example nine thumbnails on one sheet.
- Your choice of how many small pictures you want to put.
- One student can pick a large photo out of the nine and describe it to the students.
- The students can guess which picture the student is talking about.
- This is a fun speaking activity and the students really like it.
C – Interview with a person speaking activity
Students can interview someone in the classroom
- They can talk about their likes and dislikes
- Daily routine
- Hobbies
- Summer vacation
- His or her family.
Below is one of the most popular free speaking activities in English
D – Describing someone or something is one of the most liked free speaking activities in English
- Choose a famous person, a friend, or a family member.
- Talk about him or her
- Height
- Looks
- Occupation
- What has he or she done in his life or still do?
E – Debate speaking game
- Find some hot topics the students like to talk about like movies, sports, etc
- Have the students debate in front of the class to get the audience involved.
- let them speak freely with out interruptions unless necessary.
F- Presentations can help you use free speaking activities in English in depth.
- Students make a presentations about anything they like with photos.
- Make power-point or on the board and talk to the whole class.
- Make a lesson and teach it to the class.
- Play a game on the board.
It is recommended when students do free speaking activities in English on their own to record their own voice to check the accent, intonations, fluency, pronunciations, etc.
In addition, the more you practice speaking in English the better you become and do not be afraid to make mistakes. Just try to speak freely.
Finally, these free speaking activities in English can be used in class or at home independently by any English learner or teacher.