🇬🇧 London Speed Dating Discussion – Speaking Activity

Bring London into your English classroom and get your students talking! 🗣️🇬🇧

This London Speed Dating Discussion is a communicative speaking activity that encourages students to speak English spontaneously, express their opinions and interact with different classmates.

The material includes:

✨ an illustrated cover
📋 a clear instruction sheet explaining the Speed Dating activity
💬 useful phrases for giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing
❓ helpful follow-up questions
🇬🇧 24 London Discussion Cards with varied conversation prompts

The questions cover different aspects of London, including famous landmarks, sightseeing, public transport, city life, tourism, food, culture and personal opinions.

How it works

Students sit opposite a partner and discuss one of the London cards for approximately 2–3 minutes. When the time is up, they change partners, take a new card and start another conversation. This creates lots of speaking time and gives students the opportunity to communicate with several classmates.

The useful phrase sheet provides additional language support and helps students keep their conversations going independently.

🎯 Skills: Speaking · Interaction · Giving opinions · Asking follow-up questions · Fluency

📚 Perfect for:
English lessons · London units · UK units · Speaking practice · Warm-ups · Revision · Lesson starters · End-of-unit activities

A motivating and low-prep activity for getting students to talk, discuss, share and practise real English! 🇬🇧💬