Cheat sheet for

receptive skills (reading/listening) lessons

Lesson stage Aim My plan

to get the student

interested in the topic
Lead-in and activate their
background knowledge
about it

to introduce the
Orientation reading/listening text

Reading task:
Reading/ students read or listen
listening quickly to get the
general idea of the text
for gist

to introduce vocabulary
Pre-teaching that is needed for the
(if necessary) detail task

Reading task:
Reading/ focussed reading/
listening listening for speci c
details
for detail

Speaking or writing
Follow-up practice
OR OR
Language Focus on language
(grammar, vocabulary,
focus functions) from the text
fi