I put students in groups of 4 or 8 and each group has a pack of speaking cards. They pull a card out of the bag and they have to speak for a predetermined amount of time, using the given structures. Of course, you could also set your own structures (there is/are could be used well here as well). Pictures are there for better presentation, otherwise they use their imagination and they don't describe the picture, but they speak about the situation.

They usually also all close their eyes, so they can imagine better when the classmate is speaking. They choose the best one from each group to speak in front of the whole class then.

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I put students in groups of 4 or 8 and each group has a pack of speaking cards. They pull a card out of the bag and they have to speak for a predetermined amoun…