To check learning and accuracy of production of the target language.

To give learners the chance to deploy the language independently.

To provide a real information gap to bridge.

To make sure that the learners can handle the reading text.

To ensure some variety and peer-to-peer co-operation.

To make sure that the learners are reading for a reason.

To allow the students practice in using the core lexis orally.

To provide a further opportunity to reinforce the targets.

Divide students into three groups: a, b, c and explain the task. Then give out worksheets.

Re-group students: abc, abc ... . They have different information.

Students feedback their decision as a group. I monitor for error and intervene to check and correct.

Introduce the lesson and present new lexis in the context of my accident.

Students speak together to exchange information and decide whose fault the accident was.

I correct serious errors in plenary using the whiteboard and drill where necessary.

Hand out the homework writing task.

Students do reading in groups and complete grids with the information they gather.