Lesson planning

Milly is asking for help from her Director of Studies: I’m going to teach this lesson using a reading text. The students will spend quite a bit of time reading, doing some comprehension excercises and then working on vocabulary-in-context. The only thing is there are some really good examples of the past continuous in the text. I want them to underline these verb forms because we studied them last week and it would be good revision. The problem is I’m not really sure what my main aim is?

• reading

• grammar

• vocabulary

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1. For learners to distinguish between ‘will’ and ‘going to’ used to make spontaneous decisions in the context of stating intentions after a lottery win.

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2. By the end of the lesson learners will have had practice in using strategies to guess the meaning of new vocabulary.

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3. To clarify the present perfect continuous using a recorded dialogue.

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4. For learners to practise the present continuous with the attached picture.

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5. To provide practice in scan listening skills in the context of listening to flight departure information at an airport.

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6. By the end of the lesson students will have had speaking practice and clarification of some tenses.

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7. To provide freer writing practice in the context of mini paragraphs.

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8. To clarify the form and meaning of the future perfect in the context of speculating about technology in the future.

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9. By the end of the lesson learners will have done a great variety of reading practice around the topic.

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