Lesson 5 development
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Introduction (prior knowledge)
10 mins 
Teacher-Learners
Teacher elicits learners’ prior knowledge about the ‘book report’ genre.
10 mins Learners-Learners
Teacher shows Activity 2, which contains expressions formed by two or more words (expressions or collocations), and asks students to do a matching activity.
Development (getting to know COCA)
30 mins Teacher-Learners / Learners-Learners
Teacher introduces COCA so that learners can search for the expressions they have previously studied.
20 mins Teacher-Learners
Groups share the information found with the whole class.
Development (corpus research)
40 mins Learners-Learners
Learners explore the use of adjectives and fill the table with the frequency and context of such words.
In groups, learners use COCA to explore the concordance lines.
In groups, learners use their previous knowledge and match the sentences from Activity 2 to the definitions of Activity 6.
Application (use in writing)
20 mins Teacher-Learners
In groups, learners discuss useful questions for the preparation of a book report.
30 mins Learners-Learners
In groups, learners discuss useful questions for the preparation of a book report, based on the expressions learnt in class.
Conclusion
20 mins Teacher-Learners
Teacher provides learners with feedback and discusses learners’ perceptions of the class and COCA.
Assessment
The assessment will be formative and will take place throughout the process of the activities by the analysis of learners’ engagement with the activities and the data collected from COCA as the final activity.
