Shopping
Shopping is one of those topics that easily engages students if you have good exercises at the right level. I’ve found it works really well with pictures as the pictures give contexts which are very familiar to most students.
8 Speaking and Vocabulary Activities for Shopping
Sport
Sports and exercise is a fun topic and and a good topic for speaking activities and expanding students’ vocabulary.
6 Sport Vocabulary and Speaking Exercises
Likes and Dislikes
Elementary English language speaking activities generally focus on likes/dislikes, hobbies, interests and routines. These topics allow students to get used to practicing the present simple tense with topics that relate to their daily lives.
2 Likes and Dislikes Speaking Activities (new)
Subject verb agreement can be pretty tedious to teach. Students really just need to practice.
5 Subject Verb Agreement Exercises
There really is quite an art to teaching extremely elementary classes. Activities and exercises need to be really scaled back and minimalistic. If you haven’t done it for a while, it can be quite a shock. This was my recent experience. But it can also be quite refreshing to experiment with new ideas on Level 0 or Level 1.
9 Super Elementary Speaking Activities
5 Elementary Conversational Expressions Exercises
10 Adjectives Exercises and Worksheets With Pictures
Socializing includes many varied and unexpected but common everyday situations which require competent speaking skills. Students of a foreign language have to be prepared to encounter these situations and be ready with appropriate responses. Pictures help give context to these situations and help students imagine how they might respond.
Socializing and Small Talk