ESL ENGLISH SPEAKING & WRITING PROMPTS BUNDLE #1

ESL EFL ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING SPEAKING & WRITING PROMPTS @ $2.50 each in the bundle 200 English Language Speaking & Writing Prompts, ideal for intermediate English to advanced English Language students.

Speaking and writing are language skills that learners tend to find very challenging, and increased engagement with language that requires them to both reproduce language they are already familiar with, and to be creative with that language in order to produce new language is really integral to successful language learning.

The questions are differentiated, addressing a broad range of ability, which aim to progress all learners. Tenses include present, future, near future, perfect and conditional. Question formats are likewise varied, to ensure maximum opportunity to work with the different ways to ask questions in English. Some questions seek to elicit very similar information, but are asked in different language: this avoids learners simply parroting learned responses to fixed prompts. The prompts are really versatile too, specifically with a focus on speaking and writing.

Speaking: As a whole-group activity, distribute the cards among your students, one or several. Ideally, they should walk around the classroom, asking questions, and swapping cards. For pair or small-group work, students can work in a designated area. This really helps them focus closely on the language, and helps learners who are slightly less confident working with a larger group. The cards work particularly well as ice-breakers at the beginning of the school year, refreshers after vacation, prep for both new phase learning, for example intermediate to advanced intermediate, and even advanced intermediate to advanced, as well as exams. They’re great as both entrance and exit tickets, and also for five-minute refreshers, which I use quite frequently during the school year. Frequent and regular engagement with language is absolutely key to successful language learning.

Writing: The cards work best in pair or small-group work, where learners have access to reference resources, such as bilingual dictionaries and the internet. The latter will enable them to prepare detailed responses to questions which address general knowledge, rather than their own life. They can then transfer this knowledge to their spoken work.

The prompts broadly address the following themes:

• college life & study
• future plans
• information technology
• local environment
• social & environmental issues
• North America/UK & travel
• social activity & daily life

I always remind my students that they do not have to ‘tell the truth’ in their responses: the important thing is to answer questions correctly, appropriately and creatively. I encourage them to use the questions themselves as a frame of reference for their responses, and also when creating new prompts for each other, which is a really popular and successful activity too.

There's a 2-page prompts master list in each set, which is useful as a general reference resource, and we also use it for reading aloud, mini-translation and pronunciation practice, discussing in what ways we might adapt and amend the questions to create new prompts.

Have a look at this English Language Learning Speaking & Writing Prompts sampler, which will give you a good idea of whether this kind of activity would work well for your students:

ESL ENGLISH SPEAKING & WRITING PROMPTS FREE SAMPLER

Try these ESL English Paired Speaking Practice Cards:

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Try these ESL English Conversation Starters for Advanced Beginner English and Intermediate English into Advanced English students:

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