It is a good idea to bring to the classroom lots of oral activities, so that the students can work in pair, group or individual.
For individual work, give them something purely subjective to speak about 2 minutes, for instance, sharing personal hobbies and interests, aspirations and dreams, opinion on a particular political, economic, social, educational, moral subject or issue, or, anything relating to hypothetical situations using "Conditional Sentences - IF."
For pair activities, they can practise role-play, or activities that could include group discussions on current affairs, general topics, debates, picture description, reading comprehension tasks, games like spotting the differences between two similar pictures, quiz, dumb charades, twenty questions, and so on. Bring local newspaper to the classroom, and you also can let them choose the news that was the most interesting. They are supposed to support their opinions, and for sure they are going to express themselves with sincerity.
Help them giving language hints, structures and lexis on board or in hand outs.
Don't forget. Teacher talk should ideally be kept to the minimum, and, you must encourage them to talk in the target language as much as possible with your gentle guidance and help.
In a typical Communicative English class,especially for the age-group you're going to cater to, the teacher should act more like the facilitator, friend, and, moderator rather than the traditional authoritative figure that he/ she usually represents.
Books might help, I personally consider them a guider line, you don't get lost. Use audio material for listening and it is always a good source to help a second language acquisition, as well for group discussion.
Don't focus too much on accuracy. The thrust should be more on appropriate of structure,form and function, and, overall communicative competence or fluency. And, of course, give them topics that they would be interested in and feel comfortable with.
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