ESA Flashcards
ESA stands for
Engage - Study - Activate
Tham gia, học, hoạt động
This procedure is introduced by …
Jeremy Harmer
In Engage, the teacher tries to …. As a result, the lesson will be …
arouse students’ interest
fun and stimulating
Suggested activities for Engage are …
games, music, discussions, pictures and stories
In the stage “Study”, the students will focus on … and how …
language
it is constructed
Recommended activities for the stage “Study” are:
- Practice of sounds
- Practice and examination of verb tense
- Explanation of grammar
In “Activated” stage, the students are encouraged to use the language …
Freely and communicatively
Recommended activities for the “Activate” are
Role play, debate, discussion, story, writing
ESA allows for three basic lesson procedures:
- Straight arrows
- A boomerang procedure
- Patchwork lesson
A Straight Arrow lesson is where the teacher takes the lesson in the … order
ESA
Straight Arrow: First, the teacher Engages the students
Then, they Study the language
Finally, they try to Activate the language by …
Putting it into production (students will be able to talk about what people and animals can and cannot do)
Boomerang ESA: job interviews
- Engage: discuss about jobs,…
- Activate 1: role play a job interview
- …: do some controlled practice
- Activate 2: role play another job interview
Study
Patchwork ESA: traveling and holidays
- Engage
- Activate (2)
- Study
- Activate
=> first ESA - Engage
- Study
- Activate
=> second ESA
Many lessons aren’t straightforward as in Boomerang and will require a lot of mini-sequences building to a whole.
Patchwork (first ESA)
1. Engage: holiday photos
2. Activate: comment how they feel and which they choose through extracts from a travel brochure
3. Activate: role play (travel agent vs …)
Customer
Patchwork (first ESA: 2)
- Study: …
- Activate: students design their own hotel/tour to add to travel brochure
The teacher goes through vocabulary regarding holidays
