Parental decisions speaking activity: agreeing and disagreeing

Parental decisions speaking activity offers plenty of opportunities for your students to discuss various problems, negotiate, agree, and disagree. This is a pretty engaging speaking activity for both teenagers and adults. It works best with levels intermediate and above.

I usually use it to supplement chapters on family life / family matters for FCE or CAE students to help them practice for the group discussion part of their speaking exam (Part 3). It is also perfect for conversation classes, for both bigger and smaller groups.

The Task

In groups, students need to find solutions to the problems from the list. They should try using Useful Expressions to agree / disagree and suggest possible solutions.

For more speaking activities see Problem Solving or What’s your excuse.

Personal Experience

I’ve found this activity to be very effective and entertaining. Everybody tends to have opinions when it comes to parenting, there has always been a lot of discussion and plenty of opportunities to use target structures.

Materials

Parental Decisions

Useful expressions table