Speaking activities.

Speaking is the way that we show how we think, how we organize our thoughts and ideas, also while speaking is a way in which we can process information an remember it.

Vygotsky (1962) sugested that thinking develops into words in a number of phrases, moving from imaging to inner speech to inner speaking to speech. This means that  talking is the representation of our thinking. And that is why a class should be filled with talk.

But we need to remember that, in order for students to talk, they must be motivated to speak. Because sometimes at this age, the learners aren't motivated by the language, so we as teacher need to motivate them by an activity that shows them they are part of the class an they are all learning.

Some activities that were presented were:

• The broken telephone.

• The hot chair.

• The interactive activity with puppets.

• The guessing game.

• The flying balloon.

One of the most important things I learned during workshops is that we need to give clear and concise instructions, if our students are beginner in the language that would be helpful for them to understand what they need to do, and in order for us as teachers they have understand what to do, there are some appropriate phrases such as: “Is it clear?”,  “Is there any question?” or  if students are in a more advance level we should say: “ Did I make myself clear?”.

It is really important to make our students feel confortable and make them feel integrated in the activities, and we are going to achieve that if we motivate our students with our activities, so we need to take into consideration the materials we are going to use, the size, the color, the purpose, specially with kids.