Food and Culture Speaking Mats | Oral Language Activities for English Learners

Description

Speaking Activities for the ESL classroom – Are you looking for structured activities to build oral language with your English learners? These differentiated Speaking Mats are designed to get students talking by asking and answering targeted questions using picture prompts and question cards. Sentence stems provide support to beginning and intermediate level students. This unit’s topic – Food and Culture

The Speaking Mats are formatted for partners AND small groups (4 students). Each format comes in 2 differentiated levels.

Four “Roll & Talk” mats are also included! Your students will love “playing” and practicing their oral language skills with this fun activity.

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What’s Included:

– “Food and Culture” Topic Posters (2) for activating background knowledge and vocabulary

– Speaking Mats – partners, 2 students

– Speaking Mats – small group, 4 students

– Differentiated Mats

– 20 engaging photo prompts of people and food from around the world

– PLUS – 4 “Roll & Talk” Mats with 16 question card prompts

Get students talking! Great for a wide range of grade levels!

🗨️ WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING

Reviews from verified TPT purchasers. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I love the real photographs, sentence frame supports, and the structure of your speaking Mats. They have become a routine in our classroom!

A fantastic resource to use with my multilingual students when teaching them about food and culture because this resource encourages discourse about the related vocabulary. Real life photos make the resource even better.

This was a fun & engaging way to get my students talking with each other, using descriptive words, & learning new food words.