How it works

Speakster is a set of four free tools for teachers of English, Spanish and German. Nothing to print, no account, no payment. Open it on your phone or put it on the screen and run the lesson.

Four tools

To open

Generator

Draws a speaking question, a vocabulary item, a grammar gap-fill, a riddle, an idiom, a tongue twister and more, matched to the age of the group and a level from A1 to B2. Tap the bubble to reveal the translation or the answer.

Open the Generator
For energy

Draw & guess

A one-screen game. A student peeks at the word, draws with a finger, the class guesses, and the score and the clock run themselves. Works on tablets, phones and projectors.

Play Draw & guess
To close

SOS

Lesson finished too early? Set how many minutes are left before the bell and get three activities whose combined length fills it exactly. No prep, no handouts, no equipment.

Open SOS
For fun

Rebus maker

Type a sentence and known words turn into emoji. Download the picture or print it as a ready-made puzzle.

Open the Rebus maker

Two languages, two switches

1

Choose the exercise language first

On the first visit in a session, the logo appears with a typewriter tagline. After the animation choose English, Español or Deutsch. With reduced motion, the choices appear immediately.

2

Exercise language: EN / ES / DE

This sets the Generator, Draw & guess, Rebus maker and examples in SOS. Change it in the header at any time. Your browser remembers your choice.

3

Instruction language: globe menu

The site defaults to Polish. The globe menu changes buttons and descriptions to Polish, English, German or Spanish independently of the exercise language. A hand-drawn arrow points to it on the home page. Some card translations and explanations stay in Polish.

If exercises fail to load

Check your connection and select the language again. A failed change keeps the previous language; it does not switch to English automatically.

Using the Generator

1

Pick a card type

Questions for speaking, Vocabulary with a Polish translation on the back, Grammar with a sentence to complete, Would you rather with dilemmas to argue about, and more.

2

Match it to the group

Kids, teens or adults, and a level from A1 to B2. Items do not repeat until the pool runs out.

3

Draw and flip

Hit Draw or press the space bar. Tapping the bubble flips it: on the back you get vocabulary, a translation or the correct answer.

What to use it for

Warm-up

Two or three questions to get the group talking in the first minutes.

Mid-lesson reset

When energy drops halfway through, one question changes the mood.

Pair speaking

Every pair draws their own question, then reports what their partner said.

Exam practice

Free answers against the clock, useful before oral exams.

Vocabulary mode

A student draws a word and builds a sentence or a short story with it. The back of the card carries the Polish translation for the learners.

Grammar mode

A quick structure review on the board or in pairs, with the answer always at hand.

Would you rather

Dilemmas for discussion, with phrases for justifying a choice on the back of the bubble.

Covering a class

You walk into someone else's group with nothing prepared: Generator to open, Draw & guess in the middle, SOS at the end.

All the tools are free. Speakster is made by Joanna Patyk-Taous, a teacher trainer based in Poznań, Poland. Her teaching materials live at patyczanka.pl, currently in Polish.