Group and Pair Work

Group and Pair Work
Group and pair work, or giving students an activity to do together
while you circulate to make sure everyone is staying on track, serves
many purposes in the EFL classroom. It gives students significantly
more time to practice speaking. Group work also allows students time to
develop answers to questions, rather than responding spontaneously. If
you provide worksheets with practice dialogues and replacement words,
students can start by reading to each other and slowly weaning
themselves from the written word. If each worksheet only has the lines
of one of the characters in the dialogue, students can gradually move
from reading their part to exchanging sheets and having their partner
test them. For example: