Beginner Speaking Practice 2
Level: A1
Skill: Speaking
Topic: Wild Weather
Time: 25-30 minutes
News Channel: River Run Rangers
exercise 1: pronoun cycle
Say one cycle for each vocabulary.
It …
We …
You …
They …
overflowed / fell / flooded / arrived
Repeat until comfortable.
exercise 2: substitute
Say the sentences.
Repeat each sentence three times.
The river overflowed. (rain / fell)
The rain fell. (town / flooded)
The town flooded. (rescue team / arrived)
The rescue team arrived. (people / survived)
The people survived.
Repeat until comfortable.
exercise 3: pronoun cycle
Say one cycle for each vocabulary pair.
It …
We …
You …
They …
overflowed heavily / fell continuously / flooded terribly / arrived swiftly
Repeat until comfortable.
exercise 4: expand
Say each sentence. (add as we go)
Repeat the full sentence three times before saying the next.
The rain fell.
The rain fell continuously.
The rain fell continuously over the town.
The rain fell continuously over the town, and the river overflowed.
The rain fell continuously over the town, and the river overflowed heavily.
Now repeat each sentence one more time. No mistakes!
The river overflowed.
The river overflowed heavily.
The river overflowed heavily into the town.
The river overflowed heavily into the town, and the town flooded.
The river overflowed heavily into the town, and the town terribly flooded.
The town flooded.
The town terribly flooded.
The town terribly flooded, and people were stranded.
The town terribly flooded, and the people were desperately stranded.
People were stranded.
People were desperately stranded.
People were desperately stranded, and the rescue team arrived.
People were desperately stranded, and the rescue team arrived swiftly.
The rescue team arrived.
The rescue team arrived swiftly.
The rescue team arrived swiftly, and searched for stranded people.
The rescue team arrived swiftly, and desperately searched for stranded people.
Repeat each sentence one more time. No mistakes!
exercise 5: transform
Change from present simple to past simple.
Repeat each pair three times.
The river overflows. → The river overflowed.
The rain falls. → The rain fell.
The town floods. → The town flooded.
The rescue team arrives. → The rescue team arrived.
Now repeat each sentence pair one more time, without any mistakes.
exercise 6: transform
Change from present simple to past simple with adverbs.
Repeat each pair six times.
The river overflows heavily. → The river overflowed heavily.
The rain falls continuously. → The rain fell continuously.
The rescue team arrives swiftly. → The rescue team arrived swiftly.
Now, one more. This one is different – notice the change!
The town is flooding. → The town is flooded.
(flooding = happening now / flooded = the result)
Repeat three times. What do you notice?
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