Lesson stages and aims

To Give students a matching, categorising, ordering, gap-fill etc. task to check what they already know. For example, if your target language is 10 vocabulary items, you could get students to match the words with the correct definition.

• lead in

• Diagnostic test

• controlled practice

• clarification

• cool down

Check meaning, form and pronunciation of target language presented in the text. (Guided discovery tasks work well with text-based presentations)

• clarification

• diagnostic test

• controlled practice

• freer practice

CORRELATED EXERCISES FROM THE TEXTBOOK/ONLINE/BOOKS (gap fills, sentence completion, multiple choice, etc)

• Lead in

• Warm up

• Fluency

• Controlled practice

To give the learners a chance to use the target language in a less controlled context.

• Freer practice

• Controlled practice

• Cool down

• Lead in

short task based on general understanding of the text as a whole. For reading texts, the gist task is often timed. Students compare their answers together (pairs/groups) first before class feedback.

• Diagnostic test

• Lead in

• Gist task

• Follow up activity

set a task based on detailed comprehension (formats might include gap fills, ordering events, true/false, etc). Students compare their answers together (pairs/groups) first before class feedback.

• Warm up

• Pre-teaching

• Gist task

• Detailed task

Introduce the new topic you're teaching. Show a picture, tell a story, ask what students can see and elicit necessary language

• warm up

• freer practice

• lead in

• clarification

• Pre-listening