Skills

By the end of the lesson the students will have discussed....

For students to talk about….

To gather ideas, plan and write a first draft of a ……………….about…….

For students to practice reading for gist/specific information/detail

By the end of the lesson students will have practiced listening for gist and for specific information

For learners to practice inferring meaning from context in a….(newspaper article)

To provide students with gist listening practice/listening for specific information/detail

Vocabulary

To introduce/revise/extend a lexical set for….

By the end of the lesson students will be able to use a wider variety of ….(verbs) to……(express differing
degrees of likes and dislikes)

To enable students to understand and use lexis to …….(describe illness)

Grammar

To introduce/review and practice…..(the present perfect simple for unfinished past)

For learners to distinguish between……(present perfect simple) and…….(past simple)

To clarify the form and meaning of……(the future perfect)

Phonology

To focus on discrete phonemes which students find difficult, particularly…..

Functions

For students to practice….(giving opinions)

Stage aims

To raise students’ interest in the subject of the text

To lead-in and generate interest and set context

To introduce the topic in a student-centred way

To provide a context for the target language

To introduce the target language

To test students’ knowledge of…(past and participle forms)

For students to check and collaborate on their responses (by checking in pairs)

To help students with meaning/To check students’ understanding of the target language

To help students with form

To help students with pronunciation

To give students controlled practice of the target language

To provide freer practice of all the language

To provide students with an opportunity to use the target language in a less controlled, more personalized
way

For students to practice ….(giving opinions) USE WITH FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE

For students to practice reading for specific information

To develop students’ skimming/scanning skills

To develop students’ skills of listening for specific information/gist

For students to understand lexis in context

For students to become familiar with and interested in the topic

To increase students’ motivation to read the text (by giving them a prediction task in pairs)

To check their predictions

To provide students with an opportunity to correct errors

To praise them for good use of language

To provide oral fluency practice