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Conversation Skills

Practices basic skills about how to continue conversations.

There are a lot of different techniques for training students how to have conversations in English:

Connecting ideas and related topics together.

Using shorter words and phrases like "Well..." or "I see" or "Wow!"

Asking for clarification if you don't understand something, or explaining a word or idea to someone who isn't familiar with it.

  • Kahoot! Infinitive (general)

    It is important to learn about AI

  • English Conversation Practice Questions

    This is a long list of English questions you can use for any reason! I use them to begin my classes and sometimes when I want to wander the hallways and ambush students with English conversation!

  • "Do you like ________? "Let's Try 1 Unit 4

    This is a practice/activity for 3年生 elementary school students to practice asking "Do you like _____?" and answering "Yes, I do." / "No, I don't." Focused on Let's Try 1 pg 17

  • Criss Cross Game

    This is a good warm up and can be used with most grades for basically any lesson to help kids use target phrases.

  • Anime Guessing Game - "What are they doing?"

    A fun game great for practicing present continuous/progressive with 1st year Junior High School students using images of different anime characters.

  • He/She can~ 3 hint quiz

    A 3 hint quiz style guessing game to practice "He/She can ~ ". Made for New Horizon Elementary 5 unit 4

  • Postcard for 6th grade. Here we go!

    This can be used as an activity at the end of the unit. Its essentially a postcard. (I`ll update more detail later.)

  • Like Rally 👍 (Speaking Act.)

    Perfect activity to practice any dialogue. Students walk around, find a classmate and practice the dialogue. Once they're done, they can receive a "Nice!" sticker from their partner.

  • Mario Kart English Race 🏎️ (Group Game)

    Great for reviewing a wide range of things (unit(s), Let's Talk, Enjoy Communication, a specific grammar point, etc.) in a Mario-Kart board game style.

  • Avatar the Last Airbender Class(es)

    This activity is good for an elective class (or any class with a motivation to learn English in my opinion). If you're an ATLA fan, it is also a fun class to teach!

  • Have You Been...?

    Bingo and writing to practice "Have you been...?"

  • Ordering at a restaurant

    This is an activity to practice ordering at a Philippine restaurant.

  • Minecraft Diamond Quest💎⛏(Sentence Practice Act.)

    A quick game that can be played as a warm up or end-of-class activity where the students play in teams in hopes of finding diamond by making sentences.

  • The Kindness Activity

    Students will write kind messages to each other on a paper keepsake! I did it at the end of the school year before the break. The JTE loved it so much, she used the lesson for other classes..

  • 1 Minute Challenge!

    Challenge passing students to talk in English for 1 minute to get a sticker!

  • One Piece Wanted Game

    This is a fun finding game providing good speaking practice using who, what, when, where and how questions. The activity involves a PowerPoint and printable cards and is very easy to adapt.

  • Practicing conversation points in New Crown 3

    Practices 3 conversation points: confirm, change the subject and words that express feelings and emotions

  • Guess what! Activity

    Students write surprising "Guess what!" sentence. They then say these sentences in pairs and practice reactions. The sillier the sentences, the better.

  • New Horizon 5 U3 - Where is Kirby?

    Speaking activity to practice the unit's target language "What do you want to be?" ---- "I want to be a....."

  • I like, I don`t like Activity Worksheet

    from Let`s Try1 Unit 4 Activity 2: I like, I don`t like

  • Dreams Bingo

    An activity to practice the Enjoy Communication section of NH5 Unit 3

  • Small talk (回転寿司 style!)

    This activity is great for conversation practice and can help students to develop their speaking skills. It doesn't require any materials and is suitable for all year groups in SHS.

  • Reactions: Reference sheet and worksheet

    This is a worksheet I made for my JHS 一年生 , but it would work for many levels! The reference sheet introduces reactions and worksheet is for practice.

  • Infinitive & Gerund

    Forms and Uses of Infinitives and Gerunds

  • Directions & Places

    Giving and receiving directions

  • Doctor Roleplay (How long have you...?)

    Situation: You are in another country and you are sick. Students will learn useful phrases for the doctor roleplay while practicing "How long have you...?" grammar point.

  • Let's Talk! (Speaking Challenge)

    A sheet with English questions & answers (+a bonus sheet) which can be handed out and used as a speaking warm-up for the beginning of each class.

  • Do you ... Can you...

    A worksheet to practice the target grammar "Do you.../ Can you..."

  • Just, Already, Yet (Worksheet)

    Present Perfect Tense Activity

  • "It’s ○○ for △△ to ~ ." - New Crown 2 GET Plus 2:

    This is a lesson addressing JHS New Crown 2 pg. 34 GET Plus 2: "It’s ○○ for △△ to ~ ." ("It's difficult for me to run"). Includes a PowerPoint, worksheet and cards to facilitate a speaking activity.

  • What ________ do you like?

    Students ask their classmates on what kind of music, movies, or TV programs they like.

  • How do you BINGO

    Students practice speaking the target structure and play BINGO using the names they have collected.

  • Group trivia game activity (Who/What/Which)

    A group based trivia activity that includes many fun trivias and questions from the book. (Target 14 - Blue Sky 3)

  • Hello. I like sushi.

    Simple self-intro worksheets for students in elementary or lower level JHS.

  • Fun trivia activity (What's this?)

    A short and fun mini-trivia activity that includes many random things related to Japan as well as funny tricky items that hopefully leave the students laughing. (Target 4 - Blue Sky 1)

  • Battleship for 1 nen Are you..?

    Are you__? questions battleship.

  • Food Stalls Roleplay

    This activity allows students to practice transactional English in a free-form roleplay.

  • Job Interview Roleplay

    This activity is meant to get the 3年生 to practice several grammar points from New Horizon 3, encourage them to have a laugh by making funny roleplays, and practice conversation.

  • DOES he ~ DOES she ~

    NEW HORIZON 1 Unit 6 Story 3. Using the grammar "DOES". PLURAL VERB. A warm up activity

  • Aizuchi Poster

    Different ways to acknowledge someone in English.

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