Sarvesh Rai Educational Corner

      Conveying information is an interesting anc effectively way to improve listening and speaking skills in students. Here is an Activity - Chinese Whispers   Purpose: To listen and speak carefully, to convey clearly stated messages  1. Get at least five people, preferable 10 plus people. The more people involved, the better, because the message being passed around, is likely to becorne distorted and even funnier.  2. Write a few messages down on paper that consists of at least ten words. The message can be serious or downright silly. Be sure it is legibie.  3. Sit the players down on the floor in a circle or a line. This can be played in teams or as a whole group.  4. Give the first player the message note. Have that person whisper the message into the ear of the next person.they can not pass on or show the  message; that must go back to the organiser/ monitor. The message must be repeated quickly from person to person. No one else mu...

  It is a great speaking activity which requires no resources and will help our learners build the skills of speaking they need to maintain a conversation. Here is the activity-  • Ask Answer Add - It is a speaking Activity to Help Learners Maintain a Natural Conversation.  The first step is to place the learners so that they are sitting or standing in pairs and facing each other. For lower level learners, present them with a question to ask their partner. If we were teaching about food in that particular class for example, then these might be good to choose from: What's your favorite food?  What did you eat for breakfast/lunch/dinner?  How often do you eat out?  What did you eat the last time you ate at a restaurant?  What is a typical meal from your country?  Have you ever eaten sushi?  Answer starts with just one question and let the learners know that they are going to ask this to their partner. The partner should answer to their best abi...

      Students often greets and they like to greet . We can use this traditional dialogue path into authentic conversation to improve speaking skills in our students . Here is the activity - Choose a song the students might also appreciate . It works better with lively , happy tunes . Explain that well play some music and when we stop they have to greet the person next to them by shaking their hands and introducing themselves ( name , country , nationality , age , likes and dislikes , etc ) .  Do this a few times adding new topics ' ; then add some variation and fun by asking them to greet each other in a different mood , for example ' greet each other happily ' or ' sadly ' or ' you don't like the person you're greeting ' etc.  We can make this more complicated by changing the topics without warning or by asking the students to say the next word using the last letter of the last word said .                     ...