This study aims to find out the EFL teacher’s problems in carrying out speaking teaching practices during the COVID-19 pandemic and how EFL teacher overcome these problems. This research uses descriptive qualitative research with semi-structured interviews and open-ended questions as data collection techniques. The participant of this study is an EFL teacher who taught class XI in one of the secondary high schools in Karawang for the 2020/2021 academic year. The results of this study found that the EFL teacher experienced several problems in teaching speaking, there are students who had nothing to say, lack of students' motivation and participation, mother tongue use, and lack of learning equipment in the form of smartphones and the internet quota. To overcome each of these problems, the teacher has their own ways, such as the teacher asking questions to students so that students can talk more or provoke students with grades, motivating students by providing inspirational videos in every online learning and trying to find out more about the causes and the solution by collaborating with the students' homeroom teacher and keep trying to get students to speak in English. In addition, the teacher said that students who do not have internet quotas or smartphones can ask their friends for copies of materials and assignments.