BLISS: BIHAR LANGUAGE INITIATIVE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

TOP TIPS FOR DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS

Top Tips for

Speaking Skills

You can develop your skills through

practising joining a BLISS English Club thinking about grammar

GRAMMAR

trying to use English remembering new words and listening to English

in every conversation developing your vocabulary (audio and video)

What's the
meaning of
adequate ?

Anupam Kumari, L.B.S.K High School, Munger

This poster was designed as part of a competition organised through BLISS: the Bihar Language Initiative for Secondary Schools project.
The competition was organised as one of the continuing professional development activities for Teacher Educators involved in the project.

www.britishcouncil.in/englishpartnerships : https://www.facebook.com/TeachEnglishInIndia
: https://twitter.com/TeachEngIndia
The British Council, 2015
The United Kingdoms international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
We are registered in England as a charity.
 BLISS: BIHAR LANGUAGE INITIATIVE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

TOP TIPS FOR DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS

Be a good listener Practise frequently

Use simple vocabulary Practise tongue twisters

Try to avoid errors but think Think about your

about your fluency too pronunciation

Keep developing Make eye contact

your intonation and smile!

Think positively Use positive

about the topic body language

Think of ways to help other Think about the pace

people to understand you of your speech

Ardhendu Bhushan Sinha, Sri Baldeo High School, Saran

This poster was designed as part of a competition organised through BLISS: the Bihar Language Initiative for Secondary Schools project.
The competition was organised as one of the continuing professional development activities for Teacher Educators involved in the project.

www.britishcouncil.in/englishpartnerships : https://www.facebook.com/TeachEnglishInIndia
: https://twitter.com/TeachEngIndia
The British Council, 2015
The United Kingdoms international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
We are registered in England as a charity.
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TOP TIPS FOR PRESENTING AND PRACTISING VOCABULARY

Using flashcards Brainstorming Using a mind map

motorcycle

train bus
bicycle trolley

automobile, LAND subway

truck, van

foot tractor trailer

Girl

TRANSPORTATION

ship airplane
submarine sailboat glider blimp

WATER AIR
aircraft
canoe carrier hot air helicopter
balloon
cargo/container space
ship shuttle

Practising through Learning words Keeping records

games in networks of new words

walk
walks catwalk

walked walker

beam
beams sunbeam

beamed beamer
cross

crosses crossbar

crossed crossing

dress

dresses headdress

dressed dressing

Deepak Kumar Choudhary, Nishan Singh Smarak 10+2 School, Rohtas

This poster was designed as part of a competition organised through BLISS: the Bihar Language Initiative for Secondary Schools project.
The competition was organised as one of the continuing professional development activities for Teacher Educators involved in the project.

www.britishcouncil.in/englishpartnerships : https://www.facebook.com/TeachEnglishInIndia
: https://twitter.com/TeachEngIndia
The British Council, 2015
The United Kingdoms international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
We are registered in England as a charity.
 BLISS: BIHAR LANGUAGE INITIATIVE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

TOP TIPS FOR DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS

PRONOUNCE YOUR
BE CONFIDENT WORDS CORRECTLY
COURAGE
IMPROVE YOUR
FEAR
BODY LANGUAGE th v f
l r w h

Be confident when you speak. Practise consonant sounds which are

Try not to hesitate. difficult for speakers of your first language.
Dont worry too much about Practise pronouncing them loudly and clearly.
what other people think. Think about your tongue, teeth and airflow.

PRACTICE DEVELOP YOUR VOICE

You can practise speaking in a

number of ways. You can work with Improve your intonation by
others in group debate or discussion listening and singing along to songs.
or practise on your own use a mirror!

BE ACCURATE BUT
USE THE RIGHT WORD FLUENT TOO
USE GESTURES

grammer
grammar

Grab a dictionary and learn Read grammar books to help you

one word per day avoid common errors but be confident
develop your word power! and keep speaking!

Dhananjay Pandey, Kharari Higher Secondary School, Rohtas

This poster was designed as part of a competition organised through BLISS: the Bihar Language Initiative for Secondary Schools project.
The competition was organised as one of the continuing professional development activities for Teacher Educators involved in the project.

www.britishcouncil.in/englishpartnerships : https://www.facebook.com/TeachEnglishInIndia
: https://twitter.com/TeachEngIndia
The British Council, 2015
The United Kingdoms international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
We are registered in England as a charity.
 BLISS: BIHAR LANGUAGE INITIATIVE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

TOP TIPS FOR DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS

Avoid
distraction Communicate with
Maintain other people
eye contact

Up your
empathy
Be specific
Group
discussion

Be considerate Be
Positive patient
body Practise
language pronunciation

Dont be afraid of
making mistakes Lead a
discussion
Speak Join an Support words
clearly English club with gestures
Talk to a mirror

Onion
Tell a story
discussion
Read more
and more
Be brief
Interact in
English
Vary vocal pace,
Organise
Use tone and volume
ideas
phrases Be positive logically

Be a Stay focussed on
good the conversation
Ask Be aware of your listener
questions strengths and
weaknesses
Practise with
your friends Be
Record your confident
Describe a
picture you like own voice

Grasp the
opportunity to
speak in No
It can English translation
be fun

Mukund Murari Ram, Plus 2 Uchcha Madyamik Vidyalaya, West Champaran

This poster was designed as part of a competition organised through BLISS: the Bihar Language Initiative for Secondary Schools project.
The competition was organised as one of the continuing professional development activities for Teacher Educators involved in the project.

www.britishcouncil.in/englishpartnerships : https://www.facebook.com/TeachEnglishInIndia
: https://twitter.com/TeachEngIndia
The British Council, 2015
The United Kingdoms international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
We are registered in England as a charity.
 BLISS: BIHAR LANGUAGE INITIATIVE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

TOP TIPS FOR DEVELOPING READING SKILLS

The boy with perfect

reading skills Nose: for sniffing
out interesting
reading material
Head: for generating
positive thinking

Eyes: for making

judgements, decisions
and predictions Reading strategies
Steps to developing
good reading skills
Mouth: for asking
questions during SIMPLE READING
reading and Identifying important
answering them words

UNDERSTANDING
Understanding the meaning
Heart: for active of important words
reading and
visualisation
QUESTIONING
Stomach: an appetite Asking questions
about the text
for daily reading

CONNECTING
Linking new learning to
Waist: always avoiding previous knowledge
wasting time
IDENTIFYING
Identifying the explicit
meaning of the text

Knees: ready to
INFERENCING
bend and become
a flexible reader Inferencing the implicit
meaning of the text

EVALUATING
Forming opinions about
the text you have read

Feet: ready to
put plans into action
and tackle text structure

Sheetal Deva, Mount Litera Public School, Begusarai

This poster was designed as part of a competition organised through BLISS: the Bihar Language Initiative for Secondary Schools project.
The competition was organised as one of the continuing professional development activities for Teacher Educators involved in the project.

www.britishcouncil.in/englishpartnerships : https://www.facebook.com/TeachEnglishInIndia
: https://twitter.com/TeachEngIndia
The British Council, 2015
The United Kingdoms international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
We are registered in England as a charity.
 BLISS: BIHAR LANGUAGE INITIATIVE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

TOP TIPS FOR DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS

SPEAKING LISTENING
COHESION AND LOGIC CONVERSE WITH YOUR FRIENDS

CONTENT
INTERACTIVE COMPETENCE
Organise
TEACHER METHOD STUDENT
your ideas
INTERACT IN ENGLISH logically

PRACTISE PRONUNCIATION AIDS

PAUSE & PONDER PRONUNCIATION,
STRESS, INTONATION & SPEED OF
DELIVERY Be concise
RECORD YOUR OWN VOICE
DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS
MAINTAIN GESTURES AND Be expressive
EYE CONTACT

BE INQUISITIVE - ASK QUESTIONS

KNOW YOUR OWN MERITS Be responsive SPEAKING: LISTENING:

AND FLAWS Content and Listening
ideas are supports
important speaking
Take part in
debates and discussions

The most important Work in groups

thing in communication
is to hear what isnt
being said. Peter Drucker
Participate in role play

TEACHER AND STUDENT

Be imaginative INTERACTION
Effective communication
starts with listening.
Michael Fielding
Individual work
Use a range of tenses
and verb forms
Pairwork

Speech is power: Words have

Speech is to persuade,
to convert, to compel. incredible power Groupwork
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tanushree Chowdhury, D.A.V. Public School, Nalanda

This poster was designed as part of a competition organised through BLISS: the Bihar Language Initiative for Secondary Schools project.
The competition was organised as one of the continuing professional development activities for Teacher Educators involved in the project.

www.britishcouncil.in/englishpartnerships : https://www.facebook.com/TeachEnglishInIndia
: https://twitter.com/TeachEngIndia
The British Council, 2015
The United Kingdoms international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.
We are registered in England as a charity.