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I'd like to know if anybody knows some games to practice speaking, I think it's better competitive games in order to motivate the students.
Thank you in advance

It depends on their ages I guess.
The younger my students are the more competitive they are!

Siân

BINGO
Pictionary
Charades
Talkopoly (from the book Talk A Lot)
versions of Snakes and Ladders

Hi, the best game I've used for getting students to speak is Distractor, it works for all levels except complete beginners and especially good with children/young learners. Choose a fairly strong student, get them to do a simple 5 minute task such as looking up a list of words in the dictionary and copying out the definitions, or even a simple gap-fill from a text book. Give him/her a time limit and meanwhile the other students have to "distract" him by asking as many questions as possible, "what's your name, do you like cheese, No? why not? etc. etc. " and the student has to reply. The idea is to prevent him from finishing the task and normally he doesn't. Can be repeated, using other students as volunteers.

I have just seen talking dice demonstrated. They are dice with different pictures on each face and related to a particular theme.
I bought a set.
Try www.talkingdice.co.uk

For small classes, carnival-type games are awesome. For example, take a large denomination coin and have the students stand at the other end of a table and try to toss it on a plate after asking a question. Someone has to answer the question before the student can toss the coin. If the coin lands on the plate, the student gets to keep it. Don't worry, I never lost any money. Other ideas could be bean-bag toss, ring toss, pin-the-tail (or place the teacher's head on a written body) following the same Question, Answer, Action format. Dice are also very useful, with certain numbers corresponding to specific commands and one number being a "free" spot so that person doesn't speak. Hope this helps!