I was not able to really modify my lesson for the classes in the second half of the week.  I spent about a half-hour reviewing the opinion making exercises building on what we covered last time.  After that I reviewed a bit of the listening last time, had the students creat some questions they would ask if they interviewed someone who had run a marathon before listening to the interview.  Then we listened.  I checked comprehension using the questions we made. We worked from the general to the specific It took a while and we rushed through the rest of the class, barely covering everything we needed to in order to prepare them for the mid-term.

It seems to be effective to have a lot of warm up and activation but very time consuming.  In the future I would like to deviate from the book and use more interesting material.