The fossil clinic: errors that survive to B2

Your goal for The fossil clinic: errors that survive to B2

The fossil clinic: errors that survive to B2: Persistent errors improve when they are specific, counted and practised in meaningful sentences. Success means that the learner names own top five persistent errors from transcripts and applies the repairs.

Make a first attempt before reading the models

Respond to this prompt in two or three sentences: The fossil clinic: errors that survive to B2. Keep the attempt. You will compare it with a second version after the lesson.

Four models with different jobs

Listen to the models

What an effective response is doing: The fossil clinic: errors that survive to B2

A vague goal such as improve grammar is not actionable.

1. Use time limits to reveal retrieval problems, not to punish hesitation.
2. Measure one feature at a time across repeated attempts.
3. Keep a stable task so the comparison means something.

Return to your first attempt. Underline the part that meets the outcome, then identify the exact place where the listener or reader may struggle.

Read the context before choosing the language

The technically correct sentence is not automatically the best sentence. Consider who is listening, what they already know, how much certainty you have and whether the moment calls for directness or explanation.

For The fossil clinic: errors that survive to B2, keep the factual meaning stable while changing detail, register or pacing for a class discussion, a friend, a public presentation or a written response. Do not make a claim stronger than the available information.

Two errors that change the result

Move from recognition to production: The fossil clinic: errors that survive to B2

1. Explain why models one and two are different.
2. Complete one controlled sentence using the lesson pattern.
3. Change the audience and rewrite the sentence without changing its central meaning.
4. Complete the production task: Names own top five persistent errors from transcripts and applies the repairs.
5. Compare your two attempts for accuracy, organisation and ease of understanding.

Check the target English

Production task and self-check: The fossil clinic: errors that survive to B2

Names own top five persistent errors from transcripts and applies the repairs.

• The response completes the named task, not a different easier task.
• The main idea is identifiable in the opening sentences.
• Examples support the central point.
• Grammar errors do not hide the relationship between ideas.
• The second version improves one measurable feature.

Connect The fossil clinic: errors that survive to B2 to earlier English

Say Target: missing third-person s in recorded speech. from memory. Add one clause, contrast or time marker from the previous lesson. Keep the addition only if it makes the meaning more precise.

Change the audience, keep the meaning

Rewrite Practice: ten true sentences about another person's routine. for two settings: a conversation with a friend and a more formal class or community discussion. Notice which words change and which facts must remain stable.