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c. Classroom Speaking Activities
Teaching speaking should be taught through attractive and communicative activities. Many of the classrooms speaking activities
which are currently in use fall at or near the communicative end of the communication continuum. Harmer 2001: 271-274 states six
classroom speaking activities as explained in the following paragraphs. The first activity is acting form script. The students perform the
speaking activity based on the script or scenario and the teacher plays the role as the director. Before asking them to perform the script in
front of the class, the teacher has to give them time to practice. After that, the teacher chooses the first student who comes first, the second,
the third and so on. While a student is performing the script, the teacher, as the director, controls the speed, stress, and intonation.
The second activity is communication games. Communication games are games designed to demand the students to talk to their pairs
or partners to solve the games, for example solving the puzzle, arranging things into a good order, and find similarities or differences
between pictures. The next activity is discussion. Discussion can be planned or
just happen in the middle of the lesson. Both kinds of discussion can be a productive activity if the teacher can encourage the students to speak
and give their opinion in front of their friends by giving them familiar topic or topic they master.
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Then, prepared talks is the next type of activity. Just like its name, prepared talks have to be prepared. Students are given a period of
time to prepare a script of presentation on a topic of their own preference. However, when the students perform the presentation, they
better speak from notes instead on the script. The next activity is questionnaire. The students can make a
questionnaire in any appropriate topic. While the students make it, the teacher helps them by being a resource. The results taken from the
questionnaire then can be developed into prepared talks or discussions. The last activity is simulation and role play. In this activity, the
students pretend to be in a certain situation, whether being themselves or playing the role to be someone else. Then, the students use the
language to participate in the situation.
It can be summarized that there are six speaking classroom activities, those are acting from a script, communication games,
discussions, prepared talks, questionnaires, and simulation and role play. Those activities can be used by the teachers to teach speaking.
Teachers can choose the activity related to the topic and objective of the lesson. However, they have to consider the other aspects as the
classroom situation and students’ conditions.
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