Fluency Speaking Activity to Master Articles

As promised, hereโ€™s our speaking activity for Articles (the, a/an) ๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐ŸŽ“ Our goal here is to activate articles in the speech of our students Now do check first out my teaching tips video on a technique for articles: We want to give them ample opportunity to express themselves and to practice using the definite and indefinite articles How are we going to achieve that? ๐Ÿค” When do we clearly differentiate between the uses of THE and A/AN in communication? ๐Ÿค“ Well, this activity is simply called โ€œItโ€™s the one I was telling you aboutโ€ ๐Ÿคฃ Student A is going to draw Student Bโ€™s attention to an item on a card Student B is going to respond with surprise stating that โ€œitโ€™s just a (item)โ€ To which Student A responds โ€œRemember! Itโ€™s the (item) I was telling you about the other day!โ€ Student A and Student B carry on a short conversation with A explaining whatโ€™s so special about this particular item and B asking questions and getting more details Letโ€™s take a pen as an item for ins
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