TRINITY
Here is a PDF of the conversation flow diagram You can adapt this for any topic of conversation.
Here is the sentence builder for talking about music. These can be developed for any language point/subject area.
On this webpage from Trinity College London, you can find activities and ideas for lessons about improving higher level learners' (B1-C1) communication skills. These lessons are based on insights from a corpus research project.
In this folder you can find some example lessons and activities to help students to develop their conversation skills. These are for A2-B1 level learners.
While they are designed to help students prepare for Trinity College London GESE exams, they focus on the types of communication skills all students need to develop.
Watch the short video explaining some simple activities to foster critical and creative thinking.
Here are copies of the activities:
critical and creative thinking activities
Find someone who.. ( were you?)
https://www.teach-this.com/images/resources/find-someone-who-was.pdf
Here is an example picture with the description.
Matching halves: Example sentences focusing on conditionals.
Giving feedback
More information
Click on the links below to read more about giving feedback on speaking performance:
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/monitoring-speaking
https://busyteacher.org/22538-speaking-feedback-six-strategies-for-giving.html
https://busyteacher.org/4836-how-to-evaluate-speaking.html
Giving feedback on written work
The following presentation talks about the different factors that are involved in responding to students' written work.