Students write the draft of their speech, using the SEXY structure for each paragraph. Teacher returns to original text of prepared speech. Students listen to it again and read it again, this time looking for distinctive features of language. Discuss with partners, then teacher-led discussion about features of oral language eg. Teachers may wish to provide another contrasting example.
Students return to draft of speech.
They now write a 2nd draft, keeping the SEXY structure but adding 2 features of oral language from the list. They share this with their partner and the partner offers the suggestion of one more feature. This is added to the speech. Students write a 3rd draft of their speech and show it to their partner. If both are agreed that the speech has a SEXY structure and that it has at least 3 features of oral language , student writes their speech on to cue cards.