If you are interested in changing the interaction pattern in your classroom, you might like to try this formation called conveyor belt speaking. It works especially well when you are asking students to give an opinion to a peer or share feedback from an activity or task.

Getting your students on their feet:

1. Put students in two rows facing each other: row 1 and row 2.
2. Ask students in row 1 to collaborate with the person stood in front of them in row 2.
3. After a period of time, ask one student standing at the end of row 1 to move to the end of row 2.
4. Ask students to repeat the process from stage 2 and 3.

Here is a short video clip I made for Twinkl ESL explaining how to do it:

The benefits of this type of interaction:

• It shakes things up and promotes engagement, especially if your students are generally sedentary and only have an opportunity to speak with the person sat next to them.
• As the interaction is repeated, it allows students to recycle language they have previously used.
• It allows students to draw meaningful conclusions by comparing and contrasting their ideas with those of others in their group.
• As a set routine, it can be learnt and repeated in future lessons.

Interested in other ways to get your students up on their feet and talking? Take a look at this:  Class survey (sports)