Create-a-conversation worksheets help students practice new vocabulary, build speaking skills and develop confidence using a second language. These PDF worksheets are great for classroom and online teaching. They are easy to submit, edit and correct online, especially in Google Classroom. In addition, example conversations with audio are provided with the worksheets. So these exercises are perfect for speaking and listening classes.
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14 Write a Conversation Exercises for Speaking and Listening Classes
1 Write a conversation exercise: greetings and introductions (with example conversation and audio)
I teach really large classes. One of the biggest problems in large classes is assessing students’ speaking and language abilities. I have found that this is a great way to assess students speaking skills as I teach through an elementary English language course. At the end of a class I hand out the worksheets. The students create their own conversation or dialogue and come and perform the dialogue for me. I give each student a score. This exercise (write a conversation format ) can be done every 2 or 3 classes (or even every class!-it’s worked really well for me) and gradually you build up a really accurate picture of a students’ abilities. I have now added an example conversation and audio so it can be used as a listening exercise also.
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2 Write a conversation exercise: family (with examples)
Talking about the families is another easy topic for dialogue/conversation writing for elementary English learners. This exercise includes 3 example conversations and one conversation (audio file) that can be used as a listening activity.
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3 Write a conversation exercise: routines and daily activities with dialogue and audio for a listening exercise
Write-a- conversation exercises work really well for many topics including routines and daily activities. I always get the students to perform just for me …not in front of the class..as they are more relaxed and I get a close up and personal look at their performance. Also, I can ask them to repeat the conversation easily if it is not fluent enough.
4 Write a conversation exercise: going out
“Going Out” is another good conversation topic. When students write these dialogues in pairs or small groups they automatically fall into a role play mode without any direction from the teacher.
5 Write a conversation exercise: plans for the weekend
(with examples and audio)
“Plans for the weekend” is similar to the above but a little more advanced. It requires students to understand language for talking about the future. But the good thing about these exercises is that students can choose words and phrases they can manage.
6 Write a conversation exercise: friendship
Of course, friendship is a great topic for getting students to use adjectives for personality and describing people.
7 Write a conversation exercise: houses and neighborhoods
Of courses, it’s also fairly easy for students to talk about their houses and neighborhoods if they have suitable vocabulary. One of the things that surprised me when listening to students perform these conversation exercises was how quickly I could get through a class of fifty students. The students were using similar vocabulary in various ways which revealed their language and conversational abilities. And so it was easy to compare and assess the students.
8 Write a conversation exercise: food and eating
One of the best conversation writing topics is food. Students instantly start creating fun role plays. Also, vocabulary around food and eating brings in a lot of interesting pronunciation challenges.
9 Write a conversation exercise: simple past tense
The past tense is quite challenging for elementary students. This conversation exercise gives students the opportunity to practice creating a conversation and get used to pronunciation of past tense endings.
Create a conversation- past tense (PDF)
10 Write a conversation exercise: health
Here, students have to write a health and illness conversation or dialogue. Writing a dialogue about health is one of the best ways to get students using health vocabulary, which can cause quite a few pronunciation problems.
11 Write a conversation exercise: start a business (with audio and example conversations)
Staring a business is a popular topic with teenagers and university students. They have lots of ideas and opinions. This includes example conversations (restaurant and laundry service) with audio.
Create a conversation- start a business (PDF)
Starting a business conversation (laundry service) audio (mp3)
12 Write a conversation exercise: hotels
Most students have experience and opinions about staying in hotels. So it’s another good topic at an upper elementary (and above) level.
13 Write a conversation exercise: “used to” (compare past and present)
Here, students have to compare the past and present using “used to”. It’s a fun and interesting conversation writing exercise for students with some fluency.
14 Write a conversation exercise: problem/solution
Here, students have to compare the past and present using “used to”. It’s a fun and interesting conversation writing exercise for students with some fluency.
Great material thanks a lot
Excellent material I will use with my students, Thanks a lot.
Very helpful. Thank you
Thanks for the comments. I’ve got lots more of these. I use them a lot.
Thank you. These worksheets are a great help to guide conversation starters for beginners ,especially those for who are learning English as a second language.
Thanks a lot . I appreciate it .
Very nice material! Thanx a lot.
I’m gradually adding example dialogues and audio.