Procedure
Listen to your partner and be ready to feed his/her opinion back to the class as fully as possible.
Give practice in listenining for detail
Read the story of Jamie and the Bees. Choose the best picture to go with each paragraph.
Practice reading for gist
Students read the beginning of a story and write the ending.
Develop creativity
Teacher dictates a short paragraph with familiar structures and vocabulary and students write it down accurately.
Test spelling
The teacher shows the students a photograph of a famous castle and asks what they know about it.
Generate interest
Read each word, think how to pronounce it and decide whether the word contains /d/, /ð/ or /θ/
Focus on accuracy on pronunciation
Students read a chapter of their graded reader and draw a picture to show what happened.
Extensive reading
Students complete a text about a mountain adventure in which all the adjectives and adverbs have been blanked out.
Assess accuracy on grammatical forms, testing collocations and vocab
The students quickly read a magazine article to check whether it mentions their favourite sports.
Practice reading for specific info
Look at the verbs in this list and write the noun forms of the verbs. Then mark the stronger syllable on each of the words.
Focus on the stress
Students complete seven sentence stems containing newly learnt phrases to produce seven true sentences about themselves.
Practice using collocations and verb patterns
Students take part in a role-play in a classroom fruit and vegetable shop. They take turns at being the customer.
The teacher asks the students to predict what grade they will get in the spelling test next day.
Listen and mark Jim’s route to work on the map (1) when he rides his bike and (2) when he takes the bus.
Provide listening for detail practice
Students match some definitions to the underlined words in a text which was read for general understanding in class.
Practice deducing meaning of unknown words in the context
Students tell a story based on a sequence of four pictures. The teacher listens and encourages.
Test fluency
Students mingle and ‘Find someone who ...’ using a worksheet about ambitions for the future.
Give freer practice of question forms in future tenses
Listen to the conversation again and decide, based on his intonation, whether Mark feels positive or negative about each of the life changes he mentions.
Practice inferring attitude
Students go on the Internet and fi nd out about the food, dress and customs of a country of their choice.
Practice research skills
Students compare and contrast two photographs of landscapes and say which they prefer and why
Test ability to express opinions clearly