Here is a lesson I taught on March 13 at Profi Lingua School of Foreign Languages.
It is a pre-CAE (B2/C1) level class, with 7 students (3 men, 4 women), mostly in their 2os - the topic is government and laws, with the students first doing several reading tasks about the nanny state and later revising the relevant grammar and usage of expression related to expressing permission or obligation, before they use that language to talk about laws. Prior to the GI we checked the previous week's homework. The total class time is 80 minutes.
Part 1 (GI and a gist reading for orientation to topic):
Part 2 (Open class feedback after gist reading, prediction tasks):
Part 3 (reading for detailed comprehension task):
Part 4 (Open class feedback for reading, set-up for next reading task):
Part 5 (Open class feedback for reading, personal response task):
Part 6 (Open class feedback for personal response task, set-up for extension - grammar diagnostic):
Part 7 (Open class feedback for grammar, set-up for clarification task):
Part 8 (clarification task, restricted practice):
Restricted practice was followed by freer practice in which the students talked about specific laws that they would or wouldn't like to see in the country, and what those laws would allow or forbid.
