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 support the communication goal of each lesson.

Increases students’ awareness of word features that will help them expand their vocabularies.

Promotes accurate pronunciation of spoken English.

Students apply the conversation strategies in free discussions and role plays.

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

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

Clear presentation addresses form, meaning, and use and warns of common learner errors.

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

Presentation includes words, phrases, and collocations. Opportunities to use the vocabulary always follow.

Frequent student speaking models get discussions started.

Intensive and extensive critical listening practice provokes lively discussions.

Discussion activities ensure successful discussion for all learners.

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 students’ confidence and ability to approach academic content.

Build academic and critical thinking skills and promote discussion.

Complete writing syllabus builds key skills.

Make expectations clear.

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

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

Provides additional student and teacher resources.