Short speaking activities

Three Picture Story

Purpose: Descriptive

Language / Reasoning

Have students get into groups of three or four students to a group.

Choose three pictures from a magazine.

The first picture should be of people that are in some sort of relationship. Show the class the first picture and ask them to discuss the relationship of the people in the picture

The other two pictures should be of objects.

Show them the second picture and tell them that the object is something that is important to the people in the first picture. Ask students to discuss why they think that object is important to the people.

Show them the third picture and tell them that this object is something that the people in the first picture really don't like. Ask them to once again discuss the reasons why.

After you have finished the activity, have the class compare the various stories that they came up with in their groups.

Read a text for 15 seconds.

Cover the text

Write down all the words they can remember.

Compare the lists of words with partners and add extra words to their lists.

Compare in larger groups to make the lists of words even longer.

Discuss how the words could fit together into a story.

Make a story.

Present to the classmates.

Compare with the text.

Telling a story based on keywords.

1.St-s learnt the vocabulary before the lesson.

2. Quick reading.

3. Telling a story ( the keywords are presented in mother tongue).

https://prezi.com/pbb1wu4nxdv4/the-description-of-the-video-a-sandwich-for-lunch/

https://prezi.com/elzrtnaxdsmw/wake-up-your-imagination/

Quizlet

If students have the internet on their mobiles, it is a great fun to revise the words playing a game in teams.

Time-limit technique

Short Speaking Activities

Riddles:

Students guess some riddles, next lesson they 'reconstruct' the riddles according to the key.

41. Q: The more it dries, the wetter it becomes. What is it?

A: A towel!

42. Q: What can you hear but not touch or see?

A: Your voice.

43. Q: What starts with “P” and ends with “E” and has more than 1000 letters?

A: A post office!

44. Q: What loses its head in the morning but gets it back at night?

A: A pillow

45. Q. What is something you will never see again?

A. Yesterday

46. Q: Can you name the two days starting with T besides Tuesday and Thursday?

A: Today and tomorrow.

47. Q: If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?

A: Nine!

48. Q: What is the center of Gravity?

A: The letter V.

49. Q: What is the last thing you take off before bed?

A: Your feet off the floor.

50. Q: A lawyer, a plumber and a hat maker were walking down the street. Who had the biggest hat?

A: The one with the biggest head.

51. Q: What kind of room has no doors or windows?

A: A mushroom.

52. Q: I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?

A: A Keyboard

53. Q: How many seconds are there in a year?

A: 12. (January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd….)

54. Q: One night, a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker go to a hotel. When they get their bill, however, it’s for four people. Who’s the fourth person?

A: One night can also mean one knight. That makes four: one knight, a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker!

55. Q: How many bananas can you eat if your stomach is empty?

56. A: Just one—after that, it’s not empty anymore

57. Q: What do you call a bear without an ear?

58. A: A “b”.

59. Q: Where is the ocean the deepest?

60. A: On the bottom!

61. Q: What do you break before you use it?

62. A: An egg!

63. Q: Why did the boy throw butter out the window?

64. A: He wanted to see the butterfly.

65. Q: Which is the most curious letter?

66. A: Y?

67. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

Lunch and dinner

68. Q: What is in the middle of the sky?

A: K.

1. What jumps higher than a building? Buildings don't jump

2. The more I appear The less you see. What could I be? Fog

3. Q: Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?

A: Nothing

4. Q: What comes down but never goes up?

A: Rain

5. Q: I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A: A candle

6. Q: How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?

A: It can have a hole in it.

7. Q: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!

What color were the stairs?

A: There weren’t any stairs, it was a one story house!

8. Q: A dad and his son were riding their bikes and crashed. Two ambulances came and took them to different hospitals. The man’s son was in the operating room and the doctor said, “I can’t operate on you. You’re my son.”

How is that possible?

A: The doctor is his mom!

9. Q: What goes up when rain comes down?

A: An umbrella!

10. Q: If I drink, I die. If I eat, I am fine. What am I?

A: A fire!

11. Q: What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

A: Short

12. Q: What travels around the world but stays in one spot?

A: A stamp!

13. Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?

A: The letter M

14. Q: What has 4 eyes but can’t see?

A: Mississippi

15. Q: If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?

A: A Secret.

16. Q: Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take away my last letter, I still sound the same. Even take away my letter in the middle, I will still sound the same. I am a five letter word. What am I?

A: EMPTY

17. Q: What has hands but can not clap?

A: A clock

18. Q: What can you catch but not throw?

A: A cold.

19. Q: What is at the end of a rainbow?

A: The letter W!

20. Q: What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a minute?

A: His breath!

21. Q: What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?

A: A teapot!

22. Q: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

A: Silence.

23. Q: You walk into a room with a match, a karosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first?

A: The match.

24. Q: A man was driving his truck. His lights were not on. The moon was not out. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street. How did he see her?

A: It was a bright and sunny day!

25. Q: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

A: A palm!

26. Q: If an electric train is travelling south, which way is the smoke going?

A: There is no smoke, it’s an electric train!

27. Q: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

A: Neither, they both weigh one pound!

28. Q: How many months have 28 days?

A: All 12 months!

29. Q: If a blue house is made out of blue bricks, a yellow house is made out of yellow bricks and a pink house is made out of pink bricks, what is a green house made of?

A: Glass

30. Q: We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day. What is it?

A: The letter “E”

31. Q: Mr. Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Pink lives in the pink house, and Mr. Brown lives in the brown house. Who lives in the white house?

A: The president!

32. Q: They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

A: Stars!

33. Q: How do you make the number one disappear?

A: Add the letter G and it’s “GONE”

34. Q: Tuesday, Sam and Peter went to a restaurant to eat lunch. After eating lunch, they paid the bill. But Sam and Peter did not pay the bill, so who did?

A: Their friend, Tuesday.

35. Q: What has a neck but no head?

A: A bottle

36. Q: A monkey, a squirrel, and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first, the monkey, the squirrel, or the bird?

A: None of them, because you can’t get a banana from a coconut tree!

37. Q: Which eight-letter word still remains a word after removing each letter from it?

A: Starting-Staring-String-Sting-Sing-Sin-In-I.

38. The Smith family is a very wealthy family that lives in a big, circular home. One morning, Mr. Smith woke up and saw a strawberry jam stain on his new carpet. He figured out that everyone who was there that morning had a jam sandwich. By reading the following excuses, figure out who spilled the jam.

Billy Smith: “I was outside playing basketball.”

The Maid: “I was dusting the corners of the house.”

Chef: “I was starting to make lunch for later.”

Who is lying?

A: It was the maid. The house is circular, it has no corners.

39. Two fathers and two sons go on a fishing trip. They each catch a fish and bring it home. Why do they only bring 3 home?

A: The fishing trip consists of a grandfather, a father and a son.

40. Q: What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, and 3 legs at night?

A: A person! As a baby you crawl (4 legs), as an adult you walk (2 legs), then when you are older you use a cane (3 legs)