Welcome to 'TeachingEnglish: How to teach speaking'
How will the course help you?
Develop your understanding of speaking skills and explore teaching techniques and activities which promote oral communication in the classroom for a range of ages and levels.
What does the course include?
How to teach speaking is a free self-study training course, which is divided into three hour modules. It also includes:
- A dedicated Facebook community of course participants with up-to-date insight, resources and innovative ideas for you to try out.
- Engaging discussions taking place in the Facebook community
- A free workbook with extra learning content and resources.
What will you learn?
- Module 1: Understanding speaking – key terms and issues
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The aim of this module is to explore key terms and issues in the teaching of speaking. You'll look at how to evaluate and modify activities in terms of communicative quality, and consider how to get your learners using 'real speaking', not just completing grammar tasks.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- recognise issues related to accuracy and fluency in speaking practice
- distinguish between oral activities which practise grammar and oral activities which are communicative
- evaluate a range of speaking activities
- modify activities to make them more effective in developing oral communication skills. - Module 2: Understanding speaking – maximising interaction
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The aim of this module is to introduce you to a range of techniques and activities which promote speaking in your classroom. You'll look at the benefits of pair and group work and adapt tasks to maximise student interaction.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- distinguish between oral activities which practise grammar and oral activities which are communicative
- adapt reading tasks to make them more communicative. - Module 3: Understanding language practice activities
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The aim of this module is to explore and evaluate a range of practice activities. The module also looks at flexible activities that can be adapted for different ages and levels. You have the opportunity to select appropriate activities which match with lesson aims, and justify your choices.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- identify the skills and language that different activities practise and address some common concerns about practice activities
- use songs, stories and mobile phones in a variety of ways for classroom language practice
- choose language practice activities which correspond to your lesson aims and learners' needs.
When is the course?
Enrolment for 'TeachingEnglish: How to teach speaking' is now closed. Sign up to the free newsletter to keep up to date on when our courses open.
How much does the course cost?
The course is free.
How can you get a certificate?
You will receive a certificate if you successfully complete all self-study modules.
What level of English do you need?
Minimum CEFR B1
What can you do now?
If you're interested in learning more about teaching speaking, you can:
- Get teaching ideas from our Courses for teachers Facebook community.
- Access learning content related to our courses on Facebook (Facebook account required).
- Access teaching resources on the TeachingEnglish website
- Download the free course workbook.
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Teaching Speaking
I am registered but unable to sign up for this free course
Please help me. Thank you.
Enrolling on the course
Hello,
If you have created your account, go to the courses homepage, then click on the Home tab in the top left hand corner. You can then see two tabs "Your week ahead", "Your learning" and, to the right, a green tab "Explore all courses". If you click there, you should see all the available courses- Then you can click on "Enrol in activity".
If you are still have problems, please can you report them using the orange "Help" button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen?
Hope that helps!
Cath
TE Team
Enrolling on the course
Hello,
If you have created your account, go to the courses homepage, then click on the Home tab in the top left hand corner. You can then see two tabs "Your week ahead", "Your learning" and, to the right, a green tab "Explore all courses". If you click there, you should see all the available courses- Then you can click on "Enrol in activity".
If you are still have problems, please can you report them using the orange "Help" button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen?
Hope that helps!
Cath
TE Team
I am impatient to learn this
I am impatient to learn this course
I like all the topics
I will like to perticipe in all of them, but I don´t know how to register.
Enrolling on the course
Hi Cueva
Have you created an account? If so, when you are logged in, go to the courses page, then click on the Home tab in the top left hand corner. You can then see two tabs "Your week ahead", "Your learning" and, to the right, a green tab "Explore all courses". If you click there, you should see all the available courses- Then you can click on "Enrol in activity".
If you are still have problems, please can you report them using the orange "Help" button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen? Let us know if you need help with setting up the accout.
Hope that helps!
Cath
TE Team
I can not find Enrol now
I did everything but I can't find Enrol now button
Help me, please
thank you so much
Enrolling on the course
Hi Mustafa079
Have you created an account? If so, when you are logged in, go to the courses page, then click on the Home tab in the top left hand corner. You can then see two tabs "Your week ahead", "Your learning" and, to the right, a green tab "Explore all courses". If you click there, you should see all the available courses- Then you can click on "Enrol in activity".
If you are still have problems, please can you report them using the orange "Help" button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen?
Hope that helps!
Cath
TE Team
Willing to start
Hi, everyone!
I'm glad to be part of this course. Already super excited about starting it. I'm currently working as a preschool teacher at an international school. I'm always looking forward to learning more about the learning process. Thank you in advance!
Willing to start
Hi, everyone!
I'm glad to be part of this course. Already super excited about starting it. I'm currently working as a preschool teacher at an international school. I'm always looking forward to learning more about the learning process.
Enroll
Hi!
I hope you're doing great! I already followed all the steps but I cannot find the place where it says "enroll" as the instructions only guide me to this page only, but not more. Can please help me? I really want to study this course.
Thanks!!!
PD: I'm writing from Chile.
Enrolling on the course
Hi Mariangelac18 (and welcome from Chile!)
If you have created your account, go to the courses page, then click on the Home tab in the top left hand corner. You can then see two tabs "Your week ahead", "Your learning" and, to the right, a green tab "Explore all courses". If you click there, you should see all the available courses- Then you can click on "Enrol in activity".
If you are still have problems, please can you report them using the orange "Help" button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen?
Hope that helps!
Cath
TE Team
I have got stuck in step 5
I have created my own account, I have reached to step 4, but I can not find out where to enroll. Could you give me a hand? Thank you so much
Enrolling on the course
Hi MyNguyen
If you go to the courses page, then click on the Home tab in the top left hand corner. You can then see two tabs "Your week ahead", "Your learning" and, to the right, a green tab "Explore all courses". If you click there, you should see all the available courses- Then you can click on "Enrol in activity".
If you are still have problems, please can you report them using the orange "Help" button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen?
Hope that helps!
Cath
TE Team
Enrolling on the course
Hi Camina23
If you go to the courses page, then click on the Home tab in the top left hand corner. You can then see two tabs "Your week ahead", "Your learning" and, to the right, a green tab "Explore all courses". If you click there, you should see all the available courses- Then you can click on "Enrol in activity".
If you are still have problems, please can you report them using the orange "Help" button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen?
Hope that helps!
Cath
TE Team
Teaching Pathways Course
Hello,
I'm training to be an English Language Teacher, and I'm looking forward to this course helping me on that journey. Thanks!
Inrolling on the course.
I can't enroll in this course, how can I do it?
Enrolling on the course
Hi Penny wora,
When you are on the course website, you need to click on the 'Home' tab then the green 'Explore all courses' button. Then you can click 'Enrol in activity' for this course.
If you can't see the course there, you might already be enrolled on it. Choose 'My courses' from the 'My learning' tab to check.
If you still can't enroll, can you tell us exactly what you can and can't see for each of the steps?
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish team
Not able to enroll
Hi, can you please help me enroll for this course? I followed the steps given above. But there is no "explore all courses" tab or "enroll" tab in "home" tab. Please advise. All i can see is an empty "my courses list" and a "view announcements" tab.
Enrolling on the course
Hi Minu,
If you can see 'My courses', then it means you are not on the 'Home' tab. Please click on the 'Home' tab. 'Explore all courses' is a green button (not tab) to the right of where it says 'Your week ahead' and 'Your learning'.
If you are definitely on the 'Home' tab and the 'Explore all courses' button is not there, please could you report this to our technical team using the 'Help' button in the bottom right corner? Then they will be able to help you.
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish team
it's a great chance for self
it's a great chance for self-promoting.can't wait
Enrollment problem
I followed the steps mentioned above, but I still can't find how enrolling to this course, Wich I think will be very useful for us as teachers. :(
Enrolling on the course
Hi Zaid Ramos,
Sorry you have been unable to enroll. Can you tell us which steps work and which steps don't work for you?
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish team
With years of teaching
With years of teaching English to adults and teenagers for their spoken and Proficiency Exams I think this would be really helpful
Enrolling on the course
I want to know whether I have enrolled on the course.I followed the instructions given.
Your courses
Hi Dilki,
You can go to the course website and choose 'My courses' from the 'My learning' tab to check what courses you're enrolled on.
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish team
How to enroll
I followed the steps and created an account. Yet, I am not able to enroll. Any advice, please?
Enrolling on the course
Hi Naheed Nada,
When you are on the course website, you need to click on the 'Home' tab then the green 'Explore all courses' button. Then you can click 'Enrol in activity' for this course.
If you can't see the course there, you might already be enrolled on it. Choose 'My courses' from the 'My learning' tab to check.
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish team
How to teach Speaking
I can't enrol as there is not any link to click on for enrollling.Please help me to get enrolled.
Enrolling on the course
Hi Irosha Alawaththa,
Have you followed the steps 1-6 above?
When you are on the course website, you need to click on the 'Home' tab then the green 'Explore all courses' button. Then you can click 'Enrol in activity' for this course.
If you can't see the course there, you might already be enrolled on it. Choose 'My courses' from the 'My learning' tab to check.
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish team
impossible to enroll
Not a chance to sign up for the course! Please,help!
Enrolling on the course
Hi Viktoria Bunkova,
You can enrol on the course by following the steps above. If you have a problem, please let us know what it is.
Best wishes,
Rachael
TeachingEnglish team
I've figured it out...
Sorry, I have just realised what I need to do. Perhaps you could clarify in your instructions that you need to click on the blue link 'visit our course website'....
How do you enrol on this course??
I have followed all the instructions 1-5 and 1-6, but unless there is somewhere a link or a button that says 'enrol here', you cannot sign up for the course.. There is clearly something missing, or am I missing something??? Would love the find out how to sign up for the course...
having the same problems, I…
having the same problems, I can't see where to enrol on any courses
Course start dates
Hi Viviene,
Sorry that you have encountered problems with course access - sometimes us trying to 'make things simpler' for teachers causes problems at first.
Currently, courses are 'active' on your portfolio when they are actually running (e.g. Teaching Speaking isn't running at the moment, course dates will be publicised on the main teaching English page when it is).
When a course is running, and if you are logged in, you will see the course accessible on your portfolio.
Hope that helps!
Anne
TeachingEnglish team
Help me enrol, please!
Can you please send the link for enrollment by email? I can't find it in here...
Course registration
Hi Shobhika
Once you have enrolled you need to click on the link to the course platform:
https://open.teachingenglish.org.uk/Home/MyProgrammes
You will be able to see all available courses on that page.
Hope that helps,
Cath
TE Team
Enrolling on the course
Hi Ibtesam
To enrol on the course, follow the instructions (Step 1-6) above. Remember you will first need to create a free account by clicking on the link above.
Hope that helps,
Cath
TE Team
Enrolling on the course
Hi
The instructions for enrolling are above - follow Steps 1-6 (the first step is to create an account). If you have problems, let us know.
Thanks,
Cath
TE Team
I am a teacher of Sri Lankan
I am a teacher of Sri Lankan government school. I really like to follow this course. I am really interested for British Council courses. They are very standard.
cheerful greetings to all of
cheerful greetings to all of you from Egypt. delighted to be with you