Getting students speaking can be difficult even at the best of times, and the challenges seem to increase when teaching remotely. However, it doesn’t need to be so difficult. What we need to do is make adaptations to our regular classroom activities and use simple digital resources to work in our favoUr. In this session we will explore some relatively low-tech tools and a wide range of straightforward activities to get students speaking. We will also see how working in these ways can make the assessment of speaking a simpler task.