Stages of

lesson
Greeting.
Attendance.
Revision of
previous
knowledge
Warm-up
activity

Pre-listening
activity

Listening
activity

Introducing
vocabulary

Presentation of
new
vocabulary
(idioms)

Reinforcement
of vocabulary

Activities students and

teacher
The teacher takes the attendance.

Reasons for activities

Materials
Register.

Timing

2 min

The teacher asks the pupils what Catching pupils

was their previous lesson about.
attention.

1 min

The teacher asks the pupils Introducing pupils to the

questions concerning holidays.
new topic. Preparing
them for the activities to
come.
The teacher gives the pupils Presenting and discussing
pictures illustrating different the topic in question.
types of holidays. The pupils are
asked to work in groups of 4 and
discuss the pictures: whether the
holiday is interesting and why,
whether they would like such a
holiday and why. Afterwards, the
teacher asks the pupils to report.
The teacher gives the pupils some Developing pupils
tips for the activity. The pupils are listening and
asked to read the options for the comprehending skills.
answers. Then, the teacher plays Practising pupils ability
the CD twice in order for the to identify requested
pupils to check their answers. The information in an audio
teacher checks and corrects the text.
pupils answers.
Pupils are asked to solve an Introducing new
exercise from the coursebook vocabulary.
related to the listening activity
and introducing idioms. They are
asked to choose the correct
meaning of some idioms.
Pupils are asked to solve the
Clarifying the meaning
exercises related to idioms in
of the new vocabulary.
their books at page 43. The
teacher checks the answers in
class and gives further
explanations.
Pupils are asked to work in Practicing the new
groups of 6. Each member of a vocabulary.
group is given an idiom. Each
member writes a sentence with
his idiom so that the 6 sentences
form a story. Pupils are not
allowed to talk during the activity.

1 min

Pictures.

7 min

Coursebooks,
CD.

15 min

Coursebooks.

2 min

Coursebooks,
blackboard.

8 min

Pieces of paper,
each with an
idiom.

8 min

Warm down

After 4 minutes, one member of

each group will read that groups
story.
The pupils stay in the same group Revising the main points
formation. The teacher asks the of the lesson.
pupils to imagine that they work
for a travel agency and they must
promote tourism in London. They
have to write a tourist brochure.
The teacher gives the instructions.
The pupils will have 4 minutes
for the writing of the brochure.
Then, they will read them in the
class.

8 min