A Speaking Activity

I got this idea from an excellent blog called Life Feast. This is its suggestion for the speaking activity that we did in class.

This video is 6 minutes long and the idea id to keep students engaged into speaking -and communicating so the listener needs to pay attention; this is how it goes:

• play the video with no sound
• students get into pairs or trios
• one/two students face the screen and the other one has his/her back to it
• The student(s) facing the screen describes what is happening with as many details as possible
• after 3 minutes the students swap places
• they do the same for the rest of the video
• at the end, we can play the video with sound to the class, if the students want to watch it.

This vocabulary is very useful:

You can practise alone at home doing exactly the same that we did in class: describe everything that happens as it happens, but remember to say it aloud, to actually "mouth" it, otherwise it is not good as a speaking activity (when we revise things in our minds, silently, in another language, we are all experts, everything comes out just fine)