This activity is a good one to try if your students are happy talking among themselves but are a bit nervous speaking in front of a class.

Split the class into pairs.

Ask each pair of students to discuss their weekend with each other.

Use only English!

You need to be observant with this type of activity. Keep an eye on each student’s talk time. If some students are much more talkative than their partners, you might want to set a time limit for how long each student can talk for before switching. This ensures that everyone gets a fair chance to practice.

Example: You have two minutes to talk about your weekend in pairs, using only English. Each partner gets one of those two minutes.

Variations

You can specify which weekend is being discussed (past or future), or even have them pretend that today is the weekend and have them talk about what they are doing right now.

If you have time, you can have them do this activity (with different partners) three times:

  1. Last weekend I (ate this, watched this, played this, found this…)
  2. Next weekend I will / I am going to (eat this, watch this, play this, find this…)
  3. This weekend that’s happening right now I am (eating this, watching this, playing this, finding this…)