Handling Mistakes

A2 · Elementary57 minBasic BasicsLesson 4 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: make a mistake, fix it with “I mean…”, and keep talking — mistakes don't stop you any more.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Mistakes that don't stop you

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Mistakes Are OK

    Read a 150-word text about Mistakes Are OK

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Handling Mistakes

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Self-Correction Phrases

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Common Learner Mistakes

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Making and Fixing Mistakes

    Role-play: You are talking to a friend and practising self-correction (6 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: fix it and keep going

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

correctI meansorryunderstandkeep goingwhat I meant was

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