Activity 1: Is Your Language Input Comprehensible?
Reflect on your own language, then discuss.

MAJOR COMPONENTS OF SPEAKING

    Refer to last week’s brainstorm with list of speaking needs. Identify which are social, which academic.

1.    Pronunciation of sounds and words. Difficulties: consonant clusters, vowels, spelling correspondence. Intonation and stress of phrases and sentences. Reduced forms in informal speech (gonna, wanna).

2.    Memorized formulas and chunks – includes greetings, leave-takings, politeness formulas, requests, apologies – what else?

3.    Answering questions: Strategy is to repeat part of the question and complete it with the answer. (What are the two types of animals? The two types of animals are vertebrates and invertebrates. What is the difference between……? The difference between …. Is……)

4.    Interacting in a conversation: Strategy is to use fillers (ask for examples), paraphrasing, and appealing to interlocutor for help (how do you say…? Is …..right?)

5.    Transactional speaking: explaining or presenting new information to a group. Strategy is to prepare and practice with others, use note cards and visuals.

Other types of speaking?

Error Correction: Discuss when to correct and when not, also what to correct (pronunciation, grammar, word choice, register)?

Activity 2: Learning/Communication Strategies for Speaking

Students work in groups to select learning strategies for each of the speaking components.

Evaluate your own lesson/ another's lesson

TBP Ch. 16 Prepare ex. 7, p. 265