164 Advances in spoken discourse analysis
Here we see the lesson beginning on the Outer level, the teacher finding the
page and establishing the picture, setting up the activity, the student checking
that he has got the correct picture—all this is Outer and forms the framework
for the Inner level; it is all naturally occurring language, and truly interactive.
Normal exchange structure occurs throughout: after the initial Boundary
exchange (1), there is a Teacher-Elicit exchange (2), with the typical three
Example 1