There are many speaking activities, such as: Discussions or Brainstorming, Role Plays, Interviews, Debates, Information Gap, etc. The activity I would like to use is Information Gap

In this activity, teacher divides students in many pairs.  I will create two different versions of a dialogue and hand out version A to Student A and version B to Student B. The idea behind this is all the B section sentences that are missing on version A appear on version B; and vice versa.

 Example:

Version A

Student A: What's your name?

Student B: _____________________!

Version B

Student A: ____________________?

Student B: My name is Lan ! 

During the speaking task, students have to read out loud and listen to and write down sentences from the other student’s paper. Teacher has to make sure  that students are really having a conversation and not just sharing and copying each other’s dialogues.