The main goal of today's lesson was the discovery of the Past Perfect Tense and the controlled and freer practice with it. I started with the pronunciation exercise on p. 71, which was a spontaneous follow-up on an exercise that was set for homework. I decided to board and elicit the differences in pronunciation when "the" comes before a word beginning with a vowel and a word beginning with a consonant. I boarded, elicited pronunciation and wrote phonetic transcription for the following words appearing in the exercise: the Pacific /ðə 'pəsifik/ the Amazon /ði: 'æməzon/ the Andes /ði: 'ændi:z/ I successfully elicited the rules for using /ðə '/ before consonants and /ði: '/ before vowels. Next we moved on to the text that served as the starting point for the grammar discovery. I pre-taught vocabulary by writing a few words, expressions on the board and eliciting the meaning ( set off , second-hand , run out of luck , steam ). Th...