Module 1 – Grammar

Lead-in 
noun
, lead in
verb 
The activity or activities used to prepare students to work on a text or main task. A lead-in often includes an 
introduction to the topic of the text or main task and possibly study of some new key language required for the text or 
main task. 
Main aim: see aim. 
Pace 
The speed of the lesson. Teacher can vary the pace in a lesson by planning different activities in order to keep the 
students’ attention.  
 
Peer feedback: see feedback. 
 
Personal aim: see aim. 
 
Pre-teach (vocabulary)
Before introducing a text to students, the teacher teaches vocabulary from the text which they think the students do 
not already know.
Procedure 
The details of what is going to happen in each stage of a lesson. 
 
Raise awareness
To help students understand something that they may not already know. For example, if you teach learning 
strategies, it can raise students’ awareness of how they learn.
 
Recycle
To teach words or structures that have been taught before, for revision and more practice.
 
Reflect on teaching 
To think about a lesson after teaching it.  
 
Reinforce
To
make a student’s understanding of the target language more complete by going over it again. See consolidate.
 
Scheme of work 
A basic plan of what a teacher will teach for a number of lessons. 
Sequence 
noun + verb 
A sequence is a series of things, e.g. activities in a lesson. Students can sequence pictures in a story i.e. put them in 
order.
Set a question, task, test 
To give students a task or test to do or a question to answer.