English Speaking Skills

ESL Courses and Materials

Fluency activities to boost your speaking confidence!

Use the English words and grammar you already know, but in a smooth, natural and confident way!


Speaking Drills for Fluent English
Fluency Training - "I like Coffee"

This course introduces strategies you can use to speak English quickly and confidently.

 Complete course (.pdf)

YouTube: English Speaking Skills

Lessons:

  1. Repeating
  2. Quick Responses
  3. Rephrasing
  4. Expanding
  5. Active Listening
  6. Giving Opinions
  7. Summarizing
  8. Confirming and Correcting
  9. Agreeing and Disagreeing
  10. Wrap-up

Workarounds for Describing Words
Speaking Activities

Workarounds
Useful English phrases for describing things that you don't know, or have forgotten, the English words for.

Hot Seat
Practise asking lots of questions, as quickly as you can! This will give you confidence and help you lead a conversation.

Self-Introductions
Practise introducting yourself and showing interest in other people. You'll also learn some thinking-time phrases.

Conversational English: Smartphone Basics
Learn an English conversation with helpful phrases for teaching someone how to use a smartphone.


Active English Grammar Lessons
Active English Grammar

Speaking practice for a variety of English grammar patterns. Memorize a conversation and learn to think and speak at the same time!

  1. Present Continuous: What are you doing?
  2. Past Continuous: What were you doing?
  3. Present Perfect: Have you seen my phone?
  4. Present Perfect 2: Have you ever been to Tokyo?
  5. Past Perfect: I hadn't seen him in years.
  6. Past Perfect Continuous: She had been asking for one.

English Speaking Gym
English Speaking Gym

Speaking drills for common English. Repeat, repeat, repeat a sentence pattern again and again until you memorize it!

  1. All you need to do is...
  2. It's not that I..., it's just that...
  3. I can't help...
  4. I've got a bit of... I better...
  5. I'm having trouble...
  6. Could you tell me...?
  7. He must be...

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