ACTIVITY 1

Main goals: Developing fluency.

Time: 15 minutes

Materials: printed and pasted speaking cubes

Level of difficulty: easy

Technical requirements: none

Warm-up/pre-speaking

• Explain the objective of the lesson: To develop speaking skills.
• Ask what they feel makes speaking a difficult skill (differents sounds, lack of vocabulary, motivation, public exposure, etc.)
• Discuss the ideas.
• Elicit the concepts of accuracy and fluency.

Ask students to work in pairs in order to fill in a chart thinking about what they like.

Explain the following strategies to play the game.

Option 2

To make the activity more challenging ask students to play with two sets of dice and foster the use of:      and        but

Teacher goes over the stages with students and models  how to play.

Para realizar las actividad:

1. Leo las instrucciones.
2. Colaboro en completar la ficha.
3. Pregunto si tengo dudas.
4. Escucho las instrucciones del juego.
5. Elijo con quien jugar.
6. Tiro los dados y armo oraciones en forma oral.

Dados para descargar y armar:

Utilizo las palabras de  la tabla si es necesario.

Post-speaking

Discuss the factors that facilitated playing this game:

1. Listening carefully

2. Paying attention when others speak

3. Turn taking.

4. Planning before speaking.