The teacher checks that all learners can hear.

The teacher writes examples of language on the board for learners to say in an activity.

Learners use pictures in the coursebook as they play a guessing game.

The teacher teaches/reviews vocabulary before learners interview their partner in pairs.

The teacher gives learners time to prepare an interview before they perform it in front of the class.

Two learners demonstrate a role play before everyone does it in small groups.

The teacher pauses during an audio recording and repeats sections.

As learners practise a dialogue in pairs the teacher makes notes of mistakes to deal with after the activity.

The teacher asks learners to guess what a word means.

Learners are going to hear a dialogue about an unfamiliar topic. The teacher prepares them by getting them to talk about it in their first language.

The teacher plays a podcast. Learners write answers to questions about it.

Before the teacher tells a story, she shows a picture from the story to the class. She asks questions about the picture, and learners answer in their first language.