1. Untie your tongue
Speaking Skills in the FL classroom
Luisa María Palacios Maroto Elena Moreno Fuentes
CCI Pilar Escuela Universitaria de Magisterio “Sagrada Familia”
Úbeda (Jaén) Úbeda (Jaén)

2. The nightmare before class
Student’s Version
Stage fright
What%are%they%
going%to%think?%
Lack of
I"can’t"do"it"
confidence I think
Lack No#sé#
of fluency that... las
croquetas
Use of L1
de mi
madre son
las best

3. The nightmare
before class
Teacher’s Version
✓When do I prepare this?
✓and... what do I prepare?
✓What are my students
going to think of me?
✓An d what about the
noise?

4. Wake up!!!

5. to untie your
tongue

6. Ingre!ents
30 gr. of behaviouristic accounts

7. Behaviouristic accounts

8. Ingre!ents
30 gr. of behaviouristic accounts
2 spoonfuls of communicative approach

9. Communicative approach

10. Ingre!ents
30 gr. of Behaviouristic Accounts
2 spoonfuls of Communicative Approach
3 kilos of Affective Learning

12. Ingre!ents
30 gr. of Behaviouristic Accounts
2 spoonfuls of Communicative Approach
3 kilos of Affective Learning
Music
The super secret ingredient

13. A tiredless class

14. Stir it with a pinch of
Affective
sense learning humour
of
Communicative
Music
approach
Behaviouristic
approach Classroom

15. The
untying
activities

16. Gordian Knot
Fluency
Speed dating
Crazy chat
Speak your colour
Speaker’s corner
Who gets the goodies?

18. Speak your colour

19. Who gets the goodies?

22. Gordian Knot
Accuracy
Grammar
Vocabulary
Pronunciation

23. Gordian Knot
Grammar
Tic- Tac- Toe
Board games

24. Tic- Tac- Toe

25. Board
games

26. Gordian Knot
Vocabulary
Picture game
Jenga
Paul’s games
Taboo
Post it

27. Post it game

28. Jenga

29. Paul’s games

30. Picture games

32. Gordian Knot
Pronunciation
Tongue Twister Race

33. Tongue Twister
Race

34. Elena Moreno Fuent
es
emoreno@fundacio
nsafa.es
Luisa Palacios Maroto
luisapalacios@myenglishcorner.net