The students are given a table of the disadvantages and advantages of technology. They are in pairs. Instruction: Write 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages of technology. You are in pairs. You have five minutes

The students are given the reading. They read and check their guesses. Instruction: You have 5 minutes to read. Are your guesses correct? Quick Feedback: Who guessed all of them correctly?

The students are alone. They match different bodies of the essay to its names. They peer-check each other. One of the students write the answers to the board. Instruction: Look at exercise C. Match paragraphs to definitions. Do it alone. ICQ: Are you alone or in pairs? Instruction: Check your answers with your partner.

The teacher teaches the coursebook phrases such as "introduce", "contrasting", and "additional". The teacher elicits the meanings of the phrases. She makes notes on the board. This will later help with the activity.

The students fill in the table with the underlined discourse markers in pairs. Instruction: Fill in the table with the underlined words on the text. ICQ: What are the underlined words? (T nominates a student)

The students group the discourse markers on the board with a technological game. https://wordwall.net/resource/30014208

On the board, three modal sentences from the book are written. The teacher asks concept check questions and also shows the intonation of the discourse markers.

The students change their partners. They choose the correct discourse markers on the text. Later, the teacher gives a whole class feedback. Instruction: Look at exercise B. Circle the correct options. Work with your pair. You have 5 minutes.