ELT365 · Day 211 — Designing a Productive-Skills Lesson from Scratch

Idea — A productive-skills lesson follows: lead-in → model and analyse → prepare → task → content feedback → language feedback. Skip language focus and learners repeat errors; skip content feedback and they feel unheard.

Example — A writing lesson that jumps from model to task skips the “prepare” stage — learners write without planning, which is the habit the lesson should break.

Try — Take a productive-skills lesson you teach regularly. Map it against the sequence above. Which stage is shortest? Extend it by two minutes next time.

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