POWER TALK

Strategies & Activities for Speaking 

 

Sue Fenton, M Ed

 

           This is a huge resource of 2,400 ideas and cues for speaking strategies and activities for individuals, pairs, and small groups.  There are over 80 topics with 100's of examples.

 

            This is a great book to keep on a desk for lesson planning and conversation & skits ideas.

 

   GOALS OF THIS BOOK:

• To get students talking in practical and meaningful contexts (cultural, social, commercial, life skills)

• To give teachers many more options for speaking activities 

• To be a quick teacher-time-saving reference 

• To give teachers ideas for easily creating original speaking activities & materials

 

    NOTE:  POWER TALK is a companion book to the best-seller OVER 1,000 CONVERSATION STARTERS.  The difference:  that book is a manual of procedures for setting up a speaking-charged classroom and has specific paired-speaking stimuli.  POWER TALK's focus is on speaking strategies and activities for individuals, pairs, and groups.

 

WAYS TO MAKE TYPICAL LESSON COMPONENTS EVEN MORE COMMUNICATIVE:

• 50 ways to talk about pictures

• 65 ways to talk about portraits (magazine people, clip art characters)

• 40 ways to talk about literature

• 25 ways to talk about video clips

• 25 ways to use textbook dialogues for more speaking

• 100 examples of how to turn grammar into speaking

 

“QUICK REFERENCE” LISTS

       There are “Quick Reference” lists to consult to help you focus quickly and brainstorm such as:

• 250 people to interview

• 258 categories (to joggle the mind)

• 114 speaking strategy cues

• 105 Acts of Communication (reasons why people speak - to help in coming up with conversation situations)

  

      OVER 80 TOPICS:

         These are some examples of the over 80 topics, rich in entertaining ideas.

• 75 creative speaking activities 
• ways to insure equitable speaking in small groups
• nominating people, awards, wacky problem, imitative speaking
• 80 leads for reporter interviews, conducting press conferences
• 74 things to “produce” while talking
• Time Challenges
• Movie screen tests, theater
• 50 Press conference guests
• 100 speaking tasks based on documents
• 100 survey ideas
• Overheard comments (70 topics,) reasons why (40 circumstances,) mood swings
• Instructors: 34 lessons
• Object of the story, docu-talk, document du jour
• Speaking Backdrops
• Student-prepared speaking aids
• Puzzling Conversations, word tennis, archi-talk-ture, group role plays

 

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