A variety of speaking and icebreaker activities for ESL Teachers.

ESL Speaking Activities and Exercises

Successful English language speaking exercises are perhaps the most interesting and enjoyable part of teaching ESL.
Interacting and engaging with students and getting students to interact with each other is possibly the most rewarding and fulfilling part of a language teacher’s job.
However, this requires lots of different kinds of speaking activities.
Some activities only work well once with a class and many activities can only be used to teach a specific aspect of grammar, language function or speaking topic.
It’s great to have a huge library of activities that can be accessed quickly and easily to solve potential difficult teaching situation. Some of my favorite speaking activities are included on this page.

Speaking activity collections

6 sentence starter speaking exercises

14 elementary to pre-intermediate create-a-conversation exercises

5 elementary speaking activities

9 super elementary speaking activities

11 role play and interview speaking skills worksheets

11 debate and discussion brainstorming and speaking activities

15 personality and vocabulary speaking activities

5 Complaints and annoyances speaking activities

Food and restaurant speaking exercises

Environmental issues vocabulary and speaking exercises

Travel & culture vocabulary & speaking exercise

Job interview vocabulary and speaking exercises

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Video speaking activities

Introductions conversation

Food conversation

Routines conversation

Going out to a movie

Arranging a meeting

Checking into a hotel

Calling to complain

Ordering in a restaurant

Present perfect questionnaire

Other speaking activities

Note: Some of the PDFs won’t open straight off the page. This is because they are older pages and the websites don’t meet Google’s new security criteria. However, I think they are mostly fine. They are just older pages. Right click on URLs and copy/paste them into the browser and they should open easily.

Talking about roommates speaking exercise (PDF)

Speaking activity about breaking things (PDF)

Talking about slang (PDF)

Getures:kissing, hugging and shaking hands worksheet (PDF)
Telling stories vocabulary, pictures & speaking exercise (PDF)
Discussing power worksheet (PDF)
Useful things vocab. & questions (PDF)
Talking about annoyances (PDF)

Talking about success (PDF)
Hurry,rush collocations with vocabulary and speaking exercise (PDF)
Explaining accidents (PDF)
Talking about fashion, trends and hobbies (PDF)
Talking about restaurant problems – worksheet (PDF)
Talking about cities (PDF)

Travel problems vocabulary and speaking exercise (PDF)
Talking about office problems (PDF)

Speech outline worksheet (PDF)

First and Last: A speaking activity (PDF)

Speech outline worksheet (PDF)

First and Last: A speaking activity (PDF)

Discussion communication activity- editing a magazine (PDF)Find someone who..activity (PDF)

New Friends bingo for students (PDF)