Assures students of what they’ll achieve in this two-page lesson.

Provides a memorable and practical model of social language and essential conversation strategies.

Presentations include words, phrases, and collocations. Opportunities to use the vocabulary always follow.

Frequent opportunities are provided to apply new language to students’ own lives.

Students apply conversation strategies and new vocabulary.

Illustrates grammar in context and provokes interest in the topic of the lesson.

Clear presentations address form, meaning, and use and warn of common learner errors.

Promotes accurate pronunciation of spoken English.

Gives additional explanations, charts, and reviews as well as more practice.

Offers students an opportunity to engage in discussion using the target grammar.

Builds expectations for better reading comprehension.

Substantive readings build academic skills and provide information for interesting discussions.

All readings come from authentic sources and build confidence and the ability to approach academic content.

Build academic and critical thinking skills and promote discussion.

Help students organize their thoughts before discussion, ensuring success for all students.

Authentic dictionary entries build students’ academic skills.

Intensive and extensive critical listening practice provokes lively discussions.

Step-by-step discussion activities ensure successful discussion for all learners.

Frequent student speaking models get discussions started.

Complete writing syllabus builds key skills.

Helps students generate ideas and builds the habit of editing their own work.

Make expectations clear.

Integrated-skills checkpoints permit students to consolidate, review, and confirm what they’ve learned.

Provides additional student and teacher resources.