Learning Style: How do like to learn best? Are you a visual learner, or do you like to learn by hearing? Do you like clear rules and a lot of repetition, or do you like to be creative?

Learning Activity: Something that we do in class to learn and practice English. For example, role-plays, listening activities, problem solving and discussion activities, partner exercise, feedback and evaluation exercises.

Language Situation: A place and time for using English. For example, taking a taxi, checking into a hotel, giving a presentation at a business meeting.

Context: Who are the speakers in a Situation? What is their relationship? Where are they? What is their Purpose?

Level of Formality: How polite or casual is the language in a Situation or Context?

Appropriate Language: Language which is right for the Situation or Context. Do you use the same kind of language at a football match as you do when you're talking to your bank-manager?

Expectations: What kind of language do you expect to hear or use in a Language Situation? What kind of words do you expect? What kind of questions do you expect? Do you expect formal language or casual language?

Why are you speaking? What do you want to do? Do you want to persuade someone, or give them advice, or ask for their phone-number?

Why are you listening? What information do you want to hear? Are you listening for the weather on the radio, or listening for an opinion in an argument, or taking part in a conversation?

Why are you studying English? When do you want to use English? What kind of language will you need? What kind of skills do you need? What Functions or Strategies do you need to learn? What kind of Learning Activities will help you?

Language Function: Something you can do in English. For example, starting a conversation, asking someone for information, agreeing and disagreeing.

Strategy: A plan or technique for solving a problem.

Learning Strategy: A learning method. A way of learning better. For example, having a clear purpose, deciding how you want to learn, making a list of your resources.

Listening Strategy: A listening method. Something you can do to make listening easier. For example, having a clear purpose, using your expectations, recognizing different kinds of listening, cooperating and giving feedback.

Conversation Strategy: A way of doing something in a conversation. For example, how to interrupt and ask for clarification, how to give feedback that shows you understand, how to end the conversation smoothly.