Oral Work

Oral work is one of the most important skills that students should have but we can find some limitations, speaking is perhaps the most demanding skill for the teacher to teach, in their own language children are able to express emotions, communicative intentions and reactions, but in English there are limitations because of the lack of actual language, for example: teachers don´t know what students want to say. If you want your pupils to continue thinking about English, simply as means of communication, then you cannot expect to be able to predict what language the children will use.

Also teachers need to find the balance of the way like students speak. What important with beginners finding the balance between providing language trough controlled and guided activities and at the same time letting them enjoy natural talk.

At the moment when the students commit mistakes, teachers should be attentive. When the pupils are working with controlled and guided activities, we want them to produce correct language. If they make mistakes at this stage they should be corrected at once.

When children start learning English, they are presenting new language orally, students obviously need to be give language before, they can produce it themselves. Language has to go in before it can come out. Teachers hare for think in the pupils know what they can do.

One of the most successful way of presenting language to young children is through puppets or a class mascot. Having “someone” familiar constantly on hand whom you can have conversations about anything and everything. Another strategy is that teacher can use very simple drawings on the board, and at the moment when students have to speak drawing can help them to get ideas. Silhouettes can be use on the overhead projector; they can be movement if you attach a piece of wire to them. Other suggestions can be that teachers can use simple and clear pictures to presents new language you can act situations, controlled practice goes hand in hand with presentation since it is important that pupils try out new language as soon as they have heard it. In controlled practice there is a very little chance that pupils can make a mistake, with guided practice follows on directly from practice and will often be done in pair or in small groups, guide practiced usually gives the pupils some sort of choice of language is limited.