Chris Stolz’ article on thematic units is brilliant and highly recommended to the group. The link should be sent over to the Language Educators group, really, even if that thread was snuffed out by the huffing and puffing wolves over there a few weeks ago.
Here is my favorite quote from the article:
…when was the last time you spent three weeks talking about one subject– food, say– in one verb tense, using one or two new grammar tricks and say forty words? Never? Why not? Cos it’s totally BORING, that’s why not!…
Here is the link: