Just a Minute ESL Speaking Activity: Try out this Fun TEFL Speaking Warm-up Activity

Just a minute game is one of my favourite ESL speaking activities. It's perfect for a warm-up at the beginning of your class. It's also a nice speaking game for kids. The Just A Minute TEFL Speaking Game is a fun “Toastmasters” kind of ESL speaking activity. I like it because it gets students working on speaking fluently, without worrying too much about accuracy. Check out the video to find out all the details you need to know about this one-minute speech topic activity that’s perfect for English learners who are at an intermediate or advanced level. Quick tip for Just a Minute ESL: If you want to turn Just a Minute into more of a conversation or listening activity instead of just a speaking one, you can get each “listening” student in the group to ask 1-2 follow-up questions to help ensure active listening. I actually prefer this because it gives the other students in the group a reason to listen, instead of just sitting passively doing nothing. ------- More ESL activities • Error Correction TEFL Relay Race : https://youtu.be/78gr3NXAnQ4 • Ideas for Speaking Activity in English - (ESL Activities) by: @Yearn 2 Learn Y2L : https://youtu.be/EbjHeR6uOEA ------ Full blog post for Just a Minute: https://eslspeaking.org/just-a-minute-game-esl-speaking/ https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithja... #esl #eslactivities #teachingenglishwithjackie ------------------------------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ -------------------------------------------------------- Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 0:20 How to play Just a Minute ESL activity 2:26 Why this is a great speaking activity 2:54 Check out 101 ESL activities book Transcript: Hi, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about one of my favourite ESL speaking activities called just a minute. This is the ultimate activity for intermediate or advanced students to work on speaking and speaking fluency. I put students into groups of four and then I write many different topics on the board. Just things that students could talk for one minute about without stopping, so for example, like a favourite restaurant, high school memory, favourite sport, a tv show that they like, a game that they play, their family, just those kinds of common topics that anybody could actually talk about. So, in groups of four, I get students to give themselves a number one, two, three, or four. Then I say okay number ones, you're going first. Then I scrunch up a ball of paper and I give it to one of the students kind of in the front rows and they throw the ball at the whiteboard with all the little topics on it and whatever the ball hits, that's the first topic. Each of those people is kind of put on the spot, the number ones in each group. They have to talk for 60 seconds without stopping about that topic. I put a timer up on the PowerPoint screen and it counts down. And I just say this is your challenge: you must talk for one minute without stopping. It can be a little bit challenging for some students but most students are kind of able to do it as long as the topic is familiar enough so don't choose any obscure things or this will be much too difficult. So the other three members in the group: number two, three, and four have to listen to that person talking and then they have to think of one or two interesting follow-up questions for that person once the minute is done and they stop talking. So this is kind of optional but it's the best way to encourage active listening so if you don't do this the other members of the group will be thinking about those topics on the board what they're going to say, planning out their own speeches, etc. and it becomes not a speaking and listening activity it just becomes a solely speaking activity. So once that first person is done with a one-minute speech and then the follow-up questions, number two goes so they throw the scrunched up paper at the board and then the second topic. That person talks for one minute, follow-up questions and then number three and number four go. I also love this activity because it requires no preparation and no materials. It's quite useful for the students generally, they like it and yeah it's a great way to fill up like 20 or 30 or even 40 minutes in your class. In some cases, if you have some discussion about the topics or kind of elicit some answers about what people said about each thing and the teacher can ask some follow-up questions to the people as well. Be sure to check out my book 101 ESL Activities for Adults. Tags: Just a minute game, Speaking activity topics, Just a minute, topics for speaking activity, adults, just a minute, just a minute activity,esl just a minute, just a minute esl, teaching english speaking, teaching esl speaking,esl speaking adults,esl