A selection of English ESL public speaking printables

public speaking tips

1. Intermediate reading: comic
2. Short Q&A: get them talking and thinking
3. Vocab: Fill in the blank (*vocab is from the following article*)
4. Watch video (Linked in the footer)
5. Article: "The Origin of Peanuts": Read and answer Questions

Sources:
Peanuts; Public Speaking: https://aaugh.com/wordpress/2015/04/peanuts-volume-5-preview/?shared=email&msg=fail 
Video and article (the video's script): https://youtu.be/kA52KObBVD8 

Peanuts: Public Speaking Intermediate Eng

This is the exampel of speech where the students can learn how to open and close a speech. This worksheet is for increasing students speaking. In this worksheet the students also learn how to write the content of speech that will be delivered in the public area. 

PUBLIC SPEAKING THROUGHT OF SPEECH

Signs of stage fear. This is an illustrated guide to show the typical signs of nervousness before public speaking. It might make the student aware of these signs and this overcome them.

Signs of Nervousness Before Public Speaking

Part 2 of the BULATS (Business English) speaking test requires candidates to choose one (from 3) topics and speak for 1 minute. They have 1 minute to choose and prepare, and then one minute to speak. The topic has 3 points which must be included, and one question which must be answered. This document has 20 topic cards that you can print and cut out to practise the activity.  I created them for my (employed) students so they may not be suitable for all candidates, but feel free to adapt the document to suit your own circumstances.  Note that the topics are not taken from past exam papers - they were just invented by me so please do not think that these particular topics will necessarily crop up in the exam. The purpose of the cards is to allow candidates to practise preparing and organising their thoughts quickly and getting familiar with how long one minute feels when they are speaking.

BULATS Speaking Test Part 2 - talk for one minute

This rubric is designed to help you evaluate oral presentations. The rating scale is presented at the top of the rubric. It is a rubric designed for the oral assessement of Intermediate-Advanced students and encompasses the areas below:

Originality

Structure

Language Usage (grammar and syntax)

Vocabulary 

Pronunciation + Enunciation 

Delivery

A final mark out of 24 enables the teacher to easily calculate a percentage out of 100.

Oral Presentation Rubric

Breaking News - Past Passive Speaking Activity: Ss are organised into small groups. Each group gets X pictures and their task is to come up with a story / a piece of news connected to the picture. The main aim of this task is to form as many sentences in passive voice as possible. The groups then present their stories using a style that resembles news programmes. T can write some sentences on the board to help Ss mime this style, e.g. “Good evening, this is...” / “Hello and welcome to... Radio...”



Source of the photos:

1. dailymail.co.uk

2. spiritualunite.com

3. drstevebest.wordpress.com

4. india.com

5. windsorstar.com

6. davidhagerman.typepad.com

Breaking News - Past Passive Speaking Activity

A very easy worksheet for young learners. The children have to make sentences writing the name and the age of the children in the picture.

If you want to practice more, you can find more of my worksheets about the same subject here: 

https://en.islcollective.com/mypage/resources?Tags=presentation&searchworksheet=GO&type=Printables&view=grid



Presentation - What's your name, how old are you?

Part 3 of the BULATS (Business English) test lasts 4 minutes and comprises a role play with the examiner, followed by a brief discussion on a related topic.  The candidate is given a role card with topic and instructions to find out 3 things and to give their opinion on the information they obtain.  At the bottom of the card the related discussion topic is given.  Candidates need to practise asking questions to obtain information and then giving and exchanging opinions. These cards can be printed out for exam practice in the run up to the exam. Please note that the topics are not taken from past exam papers but have been invented by me just for practice to suit the type of (employed) students that I teach.  Please feel free to adapt the material to suit your own requirements. 

BULATS Speaking Test Part 3 - communicative activity

Divide the students into pairs. Give one student worksheet A and the other worksheet B.

If you want to practice more, you can find more of my worksheets about the same subject here: 

https://en.islcollective.com/mypage/resources?Tags=presentation&searchworksheet=GO&type=Printables&id=5163



Presentation - Exchanging information

Text speaking in general of Ireland. Easily understandable.

Ireland or Republic of Ireland

Mystery shopping is a practice used by market research companies where a disguised customer makes a purchase in a shop to record their experiences afterwards. Here students have to make a presentation about mystery shopping using the information in the worksheet, adding 15 presentation phrases to the text. Extra: vocabulary building exercises with solutions. Bless up, Kisdobos 

Mystery Shopping (ESP Business English for Market Researchers)

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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