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Main aim

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  To develop students’ ability to talk about past habits using used to in the context of childhood and addictions.
  

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  Students will, during the less restricted practice stage, use the target language with sufficient accuracy for their partner to understand their past habits.
  

Subsidiary aims To develop students’ ability to listen for the main ideas in a text. To improve students’ ability to talk about the topic of addictions by introducing an addiction lexical set.

Personal aims Give students more time to discuss in pairs after a listening activity before feedback.

Materials Realia – chocolate, cigarettes, coffee, a PC Pictures or short video clips of children playing on swings, dressing up for Halloween, studying at school. Listening CD and photocopies of tapescript from Language To Go Intermediate (Longman, 2002) lesson 11. Photocopies of handout for each student.

Anticipated problems and solutions Problem: Students may be unable to think of three things they did as a child but don’t do now on the spur of the moment. Solution: Provide prompts and examples if necessary. Problem: Students will not be familiar with “to give up”, to quit”, “to cut down on” in the listening text. Solution: Elicit these items in the context of addictions. Problem: Students will be unfamiliar with the pronunciation of “used to” – /juːstə/ Solutuon: Drill in affirmative, negative and question forms