Homework assignment: Students go on the Internet and find out about the food, dress and customs of a country of their choice. TO PRACTISE RESEARCH SKILLS

Lesson procedure: Students brainstorm the pros and cons of studying abroad in small groups. TO PROVIDE PRACTICE LISTENING FOR GIST

Homework assignment: Students interview a native speaker about work, home and social life in their country and make a recording of it. TO PRACTISE USING QUESTION FORMS

Textbook rubric: Circle the word in each set which is uncountable. Now write requests with the words you circled using some. TO CREATE A CONTEXT FOR LANGUAGE PRESENTATION

Homework assignment: At home, by themselves, students complete a grammar exercise similar to the one done in pairs in class. TO GIVE INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE OF STRUCTURES

Lesson procedure: Students swap the first draft of creative writing with a classmate and make language corrections and content suggestions. TO DEVELOP PEER EDITING AND CORRECTION SKILLS

Textbook rubric: Read and listen to the questions and mark whether the speaker’s voice goes up or down in tone or stays the same. TO INTRODUCE QUESTION FORMS

Assessment: Students write an email to an adventure sports centre asking about their holiday courses. TO FOCUS ON LEXICAL SET “SPORT”

Assessment: Teacher pulls ten vocabulary items learnt this month from a hat. Students write a defi nition and an example sentence using the word and turn it in. TO MOTIVATE THROUGH A GAME

Textbook rubric: Match these headings to the topic sentence in each paragraph. There is one heading you do not need to use. TO DEVELOP PREDICTION SKILLS

Lesson procedure: Students mingle and ‘Find someone who ...’ using a worksheet about ambitions for the future. TO GIVE FREER PRACTICE OF QUESTION FORMS WITH FUTURE TENSES

Lesson procedure: The teacher tells an anecdote about his life as a university student. The students listen. TO GET STUDENTS ACTIVELY INVOLVED