Everyday Speaking Skills in English Printable Teacher Resources

This free course provides interactive lessons in functional speaking language across CEFR levels, from absolute beginner through to intermediate. Each lesson targets one communicative function — such as introducing yourself, giving an opinion, or hedging an uncertain answer — giving learners the language they need to participate naturally in real spoken English, not just the vocabulary and grammar to understand it.

The course is designed to be used alongside any coursebook, in class or for self-study, and is particularly suited to learners who can read and write reasonably well but lack confidence speaking. It works equally well for young learners, adult beginners, and intermediate learners who are ready to add nuance to their spoken English.

Each lesson follows the same structure. The vocabulary section presents phrases grouped by function, graded to the level of the lesson — short, high-frequency expressions at A1, building to more natural and nuanced phrases at B1 and beyond. The listening section features a short, level-appropriate conversation modelling the target language, with comprehension questions that scale in difficulty across the levels, from simple factual recall at A1 to attitude and inference questions at B1. Five further exercises — multiple choice, matching, gap fill, choose the right phrase, and error identification — build accuracy. The lesson closes with a complete-the-dialogue task requiring learners to apply the target phrases in a full conversation.

The choose the right phrase exercise develops genuine communicative judgement rather than vocabulary recognition. Each item presents a sentence that is wrong for the situation — too blunt, too repetitive, grammatically incomplete, or otherwise unsuitable — and asks learners to identify the correct alternative from four options, with an explanation provided after checking.

Every lesson is paired with a downloadable PDF containing a full student worksheet and a teacher answer key clearly marked as not for distribution to students. All exercises in the interactive lesson and the PDF use identical data.

The course currently includes lessons at A1 (introducing yourself and asking simple questions; giving opinions and agreeing or disagreeing) and B1 (giving opinions and agreeing or disagreeing; hedging and expressing uncertainty), with further levels and topics planned, including emphasising and softening, managing conversation, asking for clarification, discussing problems and solutions, and formal versus informal register.