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Speaking Space

English Speaking Practice

Speaking
Space

Speaking Space is a supportive English speaking-practice program where students build confidence through real conversation, peer encouragement, and guided small-group activities. It gives learners a safe, friendly place to speak, listen, ask questions, and grow together.

Starting Date
Days Monday to Wednesday
Time 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Room Classroom 2
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Program Purpose

Practice English in a safe, student-centered community

This program is designed as a low-pressure learning space where students can make friends, share ideas, and improve spoken English through meaningful interaction. The focus is not on perfect answers. The focus is on participation, confidence, listening carefully, and helping one another speak more naturally.

Each session combines guided pair work, small-group discussion, friendly debates, speaking games, and reflection. Students learn from peers as well as instructors, so the classroom becomes a community where everyone has a voice and every mistake can become part of learning.

Student-centered practice

Students speak more, ask questions, choose ideas, and practise language through topics connected to their own lives.

Peer-based learning

Learners support one another through pair work, small groups, feedback, and shared responsibility for communication.

Confidence through conversation

The program helps students reduce fear, build fluency, and use English for real communication step by step.

Three-Week Discussion Plan

Prepared weekly topics for Speaking Space classes

Each class day is now shown as an individual topic card, keeping the section easy to scan while avoiding deep nested panels.

Week 1 · Day 1

What is your favorite book?

Daily Favorites and Habits Students practise simple present tense, personal preferences, reasons, and group reporting through familiar daily-life topics.

  1. What is the title of your favorite book, and who recommended it to you?
  2. What kind of book is it, and why do you like it?

Group Representative: Ask each group member to name one favorite book and one reason for choosing it. Share the most interesting recommendation with the class.

Week 1 · Day 2

What do you usually do in your free time?

Daily Favorites and Habits Students practise simple present tense, personal preferences, reasons, and group reporting through familiar daily-life topics.

  1. What is your favorite game, sport, or hobby?
  2. Do you like to spend your free time alone in your room, or outside with your friends? Why?

Group Representative: Ask everyone about their hobbies. What are the top three hobbies in your group?

Week 1 · Day 3

Who is an important person in your life?

Daily Favorites and Habits Students practise simple present tense, personal preferences, reasons, and group reporting through familiar daily-life topics.

  1. Describe a good friend on campus, a family member back home, or someone you admire. What are they like?
  2. Why is this person helpful or important to you?

Group Representative: Listen to everyone's answers. What are two good qualities, such as being kind, funny, patient, or helpful, that your group likes the most?

Week 2 · Day 4

What is your favorite place at UGP?

Our Campus and Environment Students describe places, routines, preferences, and campus life while building confidence with follow-up questions.

  1. Where do you usually go on campus to study quietly?
  2. Where do you like to sit and talk with your friends after class?

Group Representative: Imagine a new student moves into the dorms today. Which two places will your group show them first?

Week 2 · Day 5

What is your favorite time of day?

Our Campus and Environment Students describe places, routines, preferences, and campus life while building confidence with follow-up questions.

  1. Are you a morning person or a night person? Why?
  2. What do you usually do in the evening after dinner?

Group Representative: Count the answers. Do most students in your group prefer the mornings or the evenings?

Week 2 · Day 6

What do you usually do on the weekend?

Our Campus and Environment Students describe places, routines, preferences, and campus life while building confidence with follow-up questions.

  1. Do you like to rest, study, or play sports on Saturday and Sunday?
  2. Do you ever leave the campus to go into the city? Where do you usually go?

Group Representative: Take a vote. What is your group's favorite weekend activity?

Week 3 · Day 7

If you could improve one thing about UGP, what would it be?

Dreams, Improvements, and Values Students practise polite opinions, suggestions, feelings, support language, and future goals in a respectful way.

  1. What is one thing you already love about living and studying here?
  2. What is one new thing you want to add to the campus, such as a new sports area, different food, more trees, or another useful idea?

Group Representative: Talk about the changes. Choose your group's one best idea to share with the class.

Week 3 · Day 8

What usually makes you feel happy and peaceful?

Dreams, Improvements, and Values Students practise polite opinions, suggestions, feelings, support language, and future goals in a respectful way.

  1. What is one simple thing you do every day that makes you smile?
  2. Living together can be noisy. How do you find peace and quiet on campus?

Group Representative: Share the ideas. What are the best ways to support a roommate or classmate who feels nervous or stressed?

Week 3 · Day 9

What is your biggest dream or goal for the future?

Dreams, Improvements, and Values Students practise polite opinions, suggestions, feelings, support language, and future goals in a respectful way.

  1. What new skill or subject do you want to learn next year?
  2. What is your dream job after you finish studying, or what kind of work would you like to try?

Group Representative: Listen to all the goals. Summarize the different dreams in your group to share with the class.

Conversation Starters

Beginner-friendly prompts for supportive speaking practice

These cards give students simple starting points for pair work and small-group discussion. Each prompt is short enough for beginners but open enough to invite follow-up questions, personal stories, and peer support.

Topic 1

Food and Local Favorites

  1. What local snack or meal would you recommend to a visitor?
  2. What local food in Mandalay would you recommend to a visitor?
  3. Do you enjoy cooking? What dish can you cook best?
  4. What food reminds you of your hometown?
  5. Do you prefer sweet, spicy, or salty food? Why?
Topic 2

Daily Life and Hobbies

  1. What do you usually do in the morning before class?
  2. What do you like to do on rainy days?
  3. Do you prefer listening to music, watching videos, or reading?
  4. What kind of games do you enjoy playing?
  5. Do you like taking photos with your phone? What do you usually photograph?
Topic 3

Campus Life and Learning

  1. What is the most interesting class you are taking this semester?
  2. Why did you choose your current major or program?
  3. Do you prefer studying in the morning, afternoon, or at night?
  4. What is your favorite place on campus to relax?
  5. What advice would you give to a new student?
Topic 4

Travel, Places and Culture

  1. What is the most beautiful place in Myanmar you have visited?
  2. Have you ever traveled to Taunggyi or Shan State? What was it like?
  3. What is a popular place in your hometown that visitors should see?
  4. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
  5. What three things would you take on a long bus trip?
Topic 5

Dreams, Ideas and Imagination

  1. What new skill would you like to learn this year?
  2. Who is someone you admire, and why?
  3. If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
  4. What would your perfect weekend look like if you had no homework?
  5. What is one dream you hope to achieve in the future?
Topic 6

Friendship, Values and Community

  1. What makes someone a good friend?
  2. How can students help a new classmate feel welcome?
  3. What small habit makes your day better?
  4. What is one thing you would like to improve in your community?
  5. What is a kind thing someone has done for you recently?
Schedule and Inquiries

Join a welcoming space for English conversation

Starting Date
Program Days Monday to Wednesday
Program Time 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location Classroom 2

Register online before joining. Select Register Now and confirm your student information. This helps the program team arrange seating, materials, discussion groups, debates, and games smoothly.

Register Now Call 09 777 770 248 speakingspace@ugp.edu.mm
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