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This structure works for any new language: students learn a language feature, analyse its
form, meaning and pronunciation, and then practise it. Make sure practice takes up at least
half of the class. The model plan below uses a context a real-life situation that you create,
with a location and characters to elicit the target language. However, you can also elicit the
target language from a reading or listening text.
Aim: Students learn and practise X (e.g. telling the time or present perfect for life
experience)
Target language: (Describe exactly what details of X you will teach: e.g. hours, a quarter
past, half past; no minutes)
Level: All
Time: 60 mins
Assumptions:
This is what students can do already e.g. they already know numbers up to 12
This is what you think students will have trouble with, and what you will do to help them.
Usually this will be what they confuse the target language with i.e. something similar in English
or in their first language. Think of questions that will clear up this confusion e.g. write 3.15
on the board and ask Is this a quarter past three, or a quarter to three?
Main Stages
Microstages
Sample Activities
(Just choose one or two at each stage)
Presentation
Aim: Students learn form, meaning and pronunciation of the target language
Time: 20 minutes
Set context
Aim: Students understand what the target language means and where it is used
Aim: Students understand the form, meaning and pronunciation of the target language
Controlled practice
Aim: Students are confident and correct producing the target language
Time: 20 minutes
Whole class
Pairs
Students practise sentences in pairs, with substitutions (e.g. on cards or on the whiteboard)
Free practice
Time: 20 minutes
(There could be several activities as long as they are free practice activities