On Having an ‘Overt Language Agenda’ (Too Early on) in a Lesson

Check a course book you have recently been teaching from. Does it tend to start out its lessons with an ‘overt language agenda’?

If so, how might you improve some of its lead-in tasks or instructions, to make things more communicative?

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