Spoken English Activity

Two Truths and a Lie Activity: - Each student should write three
statements about themselves on a piece of paper. Two of them should
be true, and one should be a lie. Students read their three statements, and
their classmates question them to try to determine which statement is a lie.

Following Directions Activity : - In this game, each student in the

pair draws a picture, keeping their paper shielded from the eyes of their partner.
Ideally, pictures should be fairly geometric. Once the picture is complete, they
explain to their partner, using words only, how to replicate the image.

For example, if a student has drawn the stereotypical square house with a triangle
roof, he might say: “Draw a square in the middle of the paper that’s about a third
of the size of the paper. Draw an equilateral triangle on top of the square, using the
top side of the square as the bottom side of the triangle.”

The goal of this game is for each partner to replicate the other’s drawing going by
these spoken directions.
 What's the question?
This activity is good for practicing questions and for fluency practice on a range of
topics.

 Write a list of questions (one per student in your class) relating to your chosen
topic. For example, if your topic is music, you could think of questions like: Who
is your favorite singer? What is your favorite music to dance to? What's the best
concert you have ever been to? Who is a singer / group you hate? etc. Adapt the
questions to the level of your class.

 Give each student a question. Tell students to write the answer to their question
(but not the question itself) on a piece of paper or a sticky label. Tell them not to
show anyone their answer yet.

 Tell the class the topic (e.g. music). Give students five minutes with a partner to
brainstorm possible questions related to this topic.

 Now tell students to stand up and stick their label on their chest or hold their paper
with their answer in front of them. Students move around the room and ask each
other questions to try to discover the questions that the other students were
originally asked.

 Encourage students to ask follow-up questions and try to have a conversation, e.g.
Student A: What's the best concert you've ever been to?
Student B: Classical and Beyond.
Student A: When is the concert?
Student B: 15 Dec.
Student A: Is it worth going?
Student B: Because ...
 Different topic can be chosen like “Game”,”Dance”,”Painting”,”Food” etc.
 Hot Seat Activity: - Split the class into 2 teams, or more if you have
a large class.

 Elect one person from each team to sit in the Hot Seat, facing the
classroom with the board behind them.
 Write a word on the board. One of the team members of the student in the
hot seat must help the student guess the word by describing it. They have a
limited amount of time and cannot say, spell or draw the word.
 Continue until each team member has described a word to the student in
the Hot Seat.

Pictionary: - Before the class starts, prepare a bunch of words and put them
in a bag.

 Split the class into teams of 2 and draw a line down the middle of the board.
 Give one team member from each team a pen and ask them to choose a word
from the bag.
 Tell the students to draw the word as a picture on the board and encourage their
team to guess the word.
 The first team to shout the correct answer gets a point.
 The student who has completed drawing should then nominate someone else to
draw for their team.
 Repeat this until all the words are gone - make sure you have enough words that
each student gets to draw at least once!

Simon Says Spell: Gather a group of kids and acquaint them with
various objects.
 Tell them that you will mention a letter in a sentence and children need to find
and touch the object. For instance, you will say ‘Simon says touch an object
beginning with ‘B’’ then students need to figure out objects in the
surrounding, such as a ball, bin, boots, and other item starting with B and
touch them.
 If a kid feels a wrong item by mistake, she is out. This is one of the
interesting activities to learn English for kids in an easy way.
 Make Words Game: - Write one alphabet on one piece of card paper.
Likewise, write one alphabet on each card piece thus completing all 26 letters.
 Spread the pieces of card papers on the table in a random manner.
 Tell your student to choose the 4/5 letters from the group of the paper pieces
and create as many words as he can
 The child who makes the maximum number of words out of the group of
alphabets is the winner.