Presentation, Practice, Production (PPP) Lesson Plan – taken from “How to Teach

English” by Jeremy Harmer.

PPP is similar to the straight arrow ESA lesson. In PPP classes/sequences, the teacher
presents the context/function (describing a robot) for the language, and both explains and
demonstrates the meaning and form of the new language (‘can’ and ‘can’t’). The Ss then
practice with ‘can’ and ‘can’t’ before going on to the production stage, which is a
free/communicative stage. PPP is effective for teaching simple language at lower levels.
It becomes less appropriate when students already know a lot of language, and therefore
don’t need the same kind of marked/graded/scaffolded presentation.

Presentation  Practice  Production

Method Activity Resources Reason Time

Presentation

Practice

Production