You Are The Course Book Outline of Modes 1, 2, and Mode – Part 1: Warmer Vocabulary Text 2.1 Original Text 2.2 Corrections 2.3 Improvements Grammar Point Verb Forms Revision Personal Study Mode – Part 2: Warmer Pronunciation Free Practice Personal Study Mode – Part 1: Warmer Vocabulary Text Grammar Point Verb Forms Revision 2.2 Corrections Mode – Part 1: Warmer Discussion Vocabulary Q & A Sentence Building Pronunciation Personal Study Personal Study Mode – Part 2: Warmer Vocabulary Revision Free Practice – Activity Free Practice – Activity Mode – Part 2: Warmer Pronunciation Free Practice Personal Study Personal Study This is the general order of activities for each mode I would suggest a time period of around 90 minutes for each part, although this is absolutely flexible, of course If you did each part above in 90 minutes, the three modes together would fill nine hours of lesson time You could follow the three modes with an input lesson (of 90 minutes) on one of the topics that would be most useful to your students, e.g Clear Alphabet, or Using Articles, then start again at Mode The order generally works because the VOCABULARY either comes from the TEXT, or is used to create it; work on the text leads naturally into the GRAMMAR POINT – where you can study grammar problems that have arisen From the grammar point we move seamlessly into VERB FORMS REVISION, then there is a break If the lesson finishes, SS could continue working on topics and material thrown up by the lesson in PERSONAL STUDY time (or homework, as you might prefer to call it) The sentences used to study PRONUNCIATION come from the text, and the topics and material used for FREE PRACTICE also spring naturally from the text and vocabulary stages By this time, SS have worked really hard, so it is only fair to give them some free practice activities during which time they can let their hair down a bit – as well as practise everything they have been learning during this process Again, the work SS have done is reinforced during personal study time, where they could written work – WRITING is the seventh stage of YATCB Modes and – hidden under the banner of Personal Study, because it is not done in class It would be good practice to begin each part with a 10-minute WARMER You Are The Course Book – Lesson Plans 20