To Give students a matching, categorising, ordering, gap-fill etc. task to check what they already know. For example, if your target language is 10 vocabulary items, you could get students to match the words with the correct definition.

Check meaning, form and pronunciation of target language presented in the text. (Guided discovery tasks work well with text-based presentations)

CORRELATED EXERCISES FROM THE TEXTBOOK/ONLINE/BOOKS (gap fills, sentence completion, multiple choice, etc)

To give the learners a chance to use the target language in a less controlled context.

short task based on general understanding of the text as a whole. For reading texts, the gist task is often timed. Students compare their answers together (pairs/groups) first before class feedback.