Speaking (A2 Pre-intermediate) English Readers English for Life Classroom implementation

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Speaking (A2 Pre-intermediate)
English Readers
English for Life
Classroom implementation
Speaking
aims to help students improve how they read in 
practical real-life situations and to widen students’ range of 
vocabulary in line with A2 expectations. 
The book contains twenty units, each of which can provide 
the basis of a lesson. They are divided across fi ve sections:
1.
What’s your news?
Meeting and describing people, 
talking about things and places.
2.
What do you fancy?
Making arrangements and requests, 
being a customer and speaking on the phone.
3.
What do you mean?
Developing conversations and 
checking understanding.
4. 
What’s wrong?
Complaints, problems, apologies and 
thank-yous.
5.
What do you think?
Agreeing, disagreeing, and giving 
opinions and feedback.
All the units in 
Speaking
have the same structure and once 
you get to know the sections you will quickly be able to 
create your own lesson plan. Each time you see this symbol 
in the explanations below, it indicates a new section of 
the unit.
 GETTING STARTED
What is it?
Each unit begins with two or three simple
 Getting Started
questions directed at the student. The aim of the questions 
is to introduce the topic and prepare for the material which 
will follow.
Suggested implementation:
1.
Direct the questions at the class, personalizing the theme 
for the students and getting them thinking about the 
topic – which you can then discuss or brainstorm for 
vocabulary.
2.
Get students to ask the questions of each other.
3.
Get students to think of additional questions on the same 
topic. They can then ask these questions of their partners 
or the group and use these as the basis of a survey.
4.
Create a mingle activity by distributing students’ secret 
written answers to other students and getting them to 
fi nd the student whose answers they have.