PPP

It means presentation, practice and production. The production stage aims to provide opportunities for learners to use the target structure. Criticism of this paradigm argues that the freer production stage may not elicit the target language as it is designed to do, as in this meaning-based stage, students communicate with any language they can. It is not clear that forcing students to use certain structures to communicate in a practice activity will necessarily mean they will use these structures spontaneously later.

Example

The teacher presents and illustrates the communicative purpose of a new structure 'If I was you…' for advice. Then learners practise the structure using prompts to complete sentences with the correct forms of the verbs. They produce the new structure in an activity in which they give each other advice.

In the classroom

Despite current doubts about the usefulness of the practice stage in the PPP model, it is still a common framework to find in classes and in materials.

Further links:
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/planning-a-grammar-lesson
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/checking-understanding
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/a-task-based-approach
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/david-petrie/david-petrie-space-spontaneity