Fluency and accuracy are key skills in a conversation. So it's important for the teacher to provide opportunities to speak... a lot of opportunities to speak. The Skill Builders: Speaking activities provide that chance with flexible questions focused on a specific theme. The questions can be used in most any part of the lesson.

Each topic in the Beginner Skill Builders: Speaking series consists of thirteen main questions, as well as follow-up questions to provide richer conversations. There are five yes/no questions, five wh-questions, and three bonus questions. The bonus questions are slightly more difficult, so these can easily be used for extra challenge (or be removed if too difficult for the level of students).

Here are more resources to get your students speaking:

• Lower-Intermediate Skill Builders: Speaking
• Upper-Intermediate Skill Builders: Speaking
• Advanced Skill Builders: Speaking
• ESL Article: Speaking English Well
• ESL Activity: Interview Bingo