"Let’s Talk" is a Ministry of Education initiative for 7th grade classes that systematically teaches speaking skills. The objectives of the program are to promote oral language and presentation skills among 7th graders while using engaging activities, to improve oral proficiency language teaching and address needs in classroom management, and assessment.
The US embassy has also been a part of this project, contributing to the materials, and providing enrichment for the majority of the schools.
The program includes:
Chants, cheers, songs, tongue twisters, pronunciation, intonation and reader’s theatre
A. Speaking games of varying levels
B. Role play themes for heterogeneous groups, each accompanied by vocabulary, clips, transcripts and numerous activities.
The materials, which are free and downloadable (crediting the English Inspectorate), are suitable for any junior or high school class, and are recommended for anyone working on oral proficiency.
What are teachers saying about Let’s Talk? These (anonymous) quotes have been collected by the Levinsky research team as part of assessment of the program, in conjunction with the US embassy and Amal network. We’d like to thank Risa Levy and the US embassy along with Dr. Rachel Tal and Dafna Hillel from Amal network for their ongoing support.