This document discusses elements that need to be present in a language classroom to help students learn effectively. It outlines the elements of engage, study, and activate. Engage aims to arouse student interest through activities like games, music, and stories. Study refers to focusing on language construction, such as pronunciation practice or grammar rules. Activate describes exercises that encourage students to use language communicatively through activities like role-plays, debates, and story writing. The document also discusses different lesson sequences, such as boomerang, patchwork, and straight arrow, that incorporate these engage, study, activate elements.

1. This elements need to be present in a language
classroom to help students learn effectively.
Engage: this is the point in a teaching sequence where
teachers try to arouse the student’s interest, thus involving
their emotions. Activities and materials which frequently
engage students include:
 Games
 Music
 Discussions
 Stimulating pictures
 Dramatic stories
 Amusing anecdotes, etc.
When students are engaged, they learn better than when
they are partly or wholly disengaged.
Study: means any stage at which the construction of
language is the main focus. Study activities are those where
the students are asked to focus in on language and how it is
constructed.
Some typical areas for study might be:
 The study and practice of the vowel sound in ship and
sheep
 The study and practice of the third person singular of the
present simple

2.  The study and practice of inviting patterns
 The study and practice of the way we use pronouns in
written discourse
 The study and practice of paragraph organization
 The study of the rules for using make and do
Activated: this element describes exercises and activities
which are designed to get students using language as freely
and communicatively as they can.
Some examples are:
 Role- plays
 Advertisement design
 Debates and discussions
 Describe and draw
 Story and poem writing
 Writing in groups, etc.
These ESA elements need to be present in most lessons or
teaching sequences.
ESA Straight Arrows sequence

3. Three different lesson sequences which contain the
ESA elements:
 Boomerang lessons: The diagram for boomerang lessons
represents this procedure in the following way.
In this sequence the teacher is answering the needs of the
students.
 Patchwork lessons: many lessons are a mixture of
procedures and mini-procedures, a variety of short episodes
building up to a whole.
EAASASEA (etc.) Patchwork sequence
 Straight arrow lessons: This consists of the teacher
following the sequence Engage, Study and Activate. This is

4. the best format for the teacher who knows the students
needs. Allowing the teacher to take the students to a logical
point where they can use the language.
In more recent times, there have been five teaching models
which have had a strong influence on classroom practice
and which teachers and trainers still refer to.
 Grammar translation
 Audio-lingualism
 PPT
 Task-Based Learning
 Communicative Language Teaching