Providing your students with Talk Prompts can change the quality of talk almost immediately. They also increase confidence to talk, and develop vocabulary. If you haven’t used them before, introduce a few at a time and set up some activities to practice them (e.g. Odd One Out).
If your students are confident with all of them, encourage them challenge themselves to vary the wording or make up some new ones e.g. I would like to respectfully disagree or Personally I would prefer to…
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