Simple Conversation | Greetings - Business - Farewell

SMART RESOURCE | The Speaking and Listening resource enables the teacher to easily organise the oral language with the class. Through speaking with individual, partner or groups the student can explore ways in which to express feelings and emotions while also developing a vocabulary to describe and answer questions about a chosen topic. The Newstime resource includes students Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, a Today’s Class Management Board together with a variety of Newstime focus cards. The resource is presented with a colour background and a white background. New to the resource is a student Self-Reflection Assessment sheet to assess their presentation against the Learning Intentions and Success Criteria; also include is a blank Self-Assessment sheet.

SMART RESOURCE | Two communication charts present a check list of questions for a good speaker and a good listener. An excellent resource for student self - assessment.

SMART RESOURCE | The resource includes charts which indicate when it is appropriate to be formal or informal when speaking to others. It also has a ‘How does the talking sound?’ chart giving a grammatical framework for the types of speaking. These scenarios are followed by discussion activity cards asking When… What… How do we speak to different people? A first rate resource for class and ESL students.

SMART RESOURCE | Discussion cards for partner or group conversation. The prompt cards have questions or statements which focus on self-esteem, describing, explaining, swapping stories and jokes plus using your imagination. Also included is a set of blank cards for writing further discussion ideas. These could be written in collaboration with the class.