Teaching speaking and

writing skills

Production Phase
Practice Phase
Presentation Phase
Confidence/interest grow,
More towards less guided
Start: guided and less-guided activities will
and more student-centered
controlled activities encourage them to speak
and creative activities
and write more confidently.

present or revise the Give students practice with

language that the students
will need in a controlled
situation. Remember: do
not teach new structures
and new vocabulary in the
same time.
Let students freer practice
the language they will
in pairs or groups, to
need, moving from
personalise and practice
controlled practice
producing language
(drilling/ written controlled
fluently or doing extended
practice) to guided
writing.
practice.
 Lesson for presenting new
grammar, with activities to
improving language skills.

(present continuous to
describe present action)

Production Phase
Presentation Phase
Practice Phase
explain new language with In pairs or groups, students
class drills, using word mime various activities and
action pictures, then check
prompts and then picture the others have to guess
meaning, use and
word prompts what they are doing.
pronunciation.