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 PaulG
 
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							| Getting students to talk 
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							| Hello, fellow teachers. Could you please help me with something? I �m teaching conversational English, so I have to get them to talk a lot. However, I do not want to just tell them to prepare dialogues and presentations everyday, since that gets boring for my students. I �m planning on taking puppets one of these days so that they can make puppet shows, and the other day I had them play hot potato, and the person who got the "potato" had to speak. But I �m running out of ideas. Could you please give me some? I would very much appreciate it!!! |  21 Mar 2012      
					
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 PaulG
 
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							| Thanks! Well, let me check it out to see if they work. Of course, I would also like some ideas that don �t require printing out worksheets (I don �t mind downloading, but I �m on a low budget). If anybody has anything else, I would also appreciate it. Thank you very much, ascincoquinas. :-D |  22 Mar 2012     
					
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							| Does anybody else have any ideas that do not require printing anything? |  22 Mar 2012     
					
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 Pinky Makus
 
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							| - writing words and phrases on a soccer ball or a beach ball and getting kids to roll it or pass it to one another and talking about the topics on the ball 
 
 
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 PaulG
 
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							| Thank you so much, everybody! :-D |  23 Mar 2012     
					
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