Task-based or Procedural

Situational

Topic-based

Learner-generated

Structural

Skills-based

Cultural

Functional / Communicative

Mixed

Lexical

Containing items like the present perfect to describe experience

containing an item such as gardening

containing an item such as deciding on the design of a school

containing an item such as in the supermarket

containing an item such as Shakespeare's heritage

drawing on what the learners think they need to learn

based on corpus linguistics to teach patterns of words

focused on things such as skimming and listening for gist

containing an item such as making excuses

combining a range of syllabus types