Stage Aims Procedure

1 To generate interest in the topic of Chat about the topic by asking the students
the passage. questions. Relate these to the students’ personal
lead in experience where relevant. Or show pictures,
headlines etc. to get their interest.

2 To pre-teach a few essential Elicit from pictures, definitions, situations,

vocabulary items. brainstorming etc. Otherwise give the words and
Pre- check understanding. Matching exercises are useful.
teaching
of
blocking
vocab

3 To give students a reason for
reading/listening e.g.
Set skim-
ming task To help students understand the
gist OR specific information
relevant to the text (e.g. lessons
the boy has on Mondays, animals
mentioned in the text.)
Pre-set a few questions aimed at gist or extracting
relevant information. Or elicit questions from the
students that they would like to know the answers
to.
(It helps to give a time limit here, or students may
try to read the entire text word for word.)

4 To give the students practice in Play recording through once / students read
the skill of listening or reading. through text once, focusing on answers to initial
Reading task. Teacher sits still!
for gist

5 To give students confidence and Students check their answers in pairs.

allow them to discuss their
Comparin answers together.
g answers
in pairs

6 To check that they have
understood gist or found the
Feedback required information, and can tell
you in their own words.
Get answers to questions. Encourage other students
to say if they agree or disagree, and get students to
justify their answers. It may be necessary to replay
part of the tape or reread when students disagree or
have no answer.

7 intensive To check students’ deeper Set another task relevant to this aim (e.g.
reading understanding of the text or comprehension or grammar questions). Students
highlight a particular language may discuss questions together. They read or listen
point. again to answer the questions (perhaps with a time
limit again) and follow this with peer check and
feedback.

8 follow To exploit text/topic and allow Set up freer speaking activities e.g. discussion, role-
up: students to express themselves. play in pairs or groups, OR freer writing activities
speaking/ e.g. writing a response to the article/letter
writing