Talk online to improve speaking skills

This site allows you to talk to someone online in English. It's fun, it's easy and in some cases its free. You can talk to a conversation partner, a trained native English speaker, a personal tutor, a volunteer, or a language exchange buddy. Speak with new friends for free, or get a qualified tutor for a small fee.

Conversation topics to practice with friends

This site has a range of interesting topics to practice conversation from hypothetical situations (what would you do if...) situational conversation, descriptions, narrations (story telling), opinions, and instructions. Try then out with your friends to improve your speaking skills.

Giving an opinion (useful language).

This site has many useful links including this one that gives you the language to make a concession when agreeing that the person you are talking to has made a valid point but you still think you are right overall. This next page gives language used to give your opinion and support it and ask for details when the person you are talking to is giving their opinion.

Giving an opinion and other oral language skills

Here is a site that has pod casts of people giving their opinions on a range of topics. It will give you ideas for giving your own opinion (either spoken or written) and give valuable practice in listening to the opinions that other people give. Make notes as you listen so that you can report to a friend the opinions that people had on the topic being discussed. These pod casts are long (some 60 minutes) but still great listening practice all the same. Have fun with your listening.
Click on the word links at this site for more excellent educational links. See the drop down list. Try exploring the link for video lessons. there are very good clips for pronunciation, listening and speaking vocabulary and learning phrases, starting conversations greetings etc. Pause the video clip and repeat after the presenter until you can say the phrase easily.