How to Plan a Lesson????
Below are my tips for a good planning.
Remember that a great lesson starts with a good planning.
PLANNING AND
PREPARING A LESSON OR SEQUENCE OF LESSONS
IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING AIMS
How do we
identify and select aims?
AIMS – What we want our learners to be
able to do at the end of the lesson
To identify
and select the most appropriate aims, we need to ask ourselves two questions:
1. What do my learners already know?
2. What do they need to know?
MAIN AIM – Describes the most important
thing we want to achieve in a lesson or sequence of lessons.
For
example:
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We may want learners to understand and practice
using new language;
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We may want to reinforce or consolidate (make it stronger) the use of language they already know by giving them further
practice,
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We
may want to revise language they have recently learnt
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On
a lesson plan, the main aim should also include an example of the target
language we are planning to teach.
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The
aims should not be too general. “To teach the past simple”, or “To develop
learners’ reading skills” do not say enough about of the purpose of the lesson.
More specific aims might be “to introduce and practice the past simple for
talking about personal experiences.
SUBSIDIARY AIMS – Shows the language or skills
learners should be able to use well in order to achieve the main aim of the
lesson.
For
example:
Main
Aim - Teach students to make polite
requests
Subsidiary
Aim – The language and skills that learners will need to make these requests.
Stating
both Main and Subsidiary Aim is a good way of making sure that our own lesson
plan focuses on what we want our learners to learn, or to be able to do.
PERSONAL AIMS – Show what we would like to
improve or focus in our own teaching. Here are some examples:
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To
try different correction techniques
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To
remember to check instructions
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To
write more clearly on the blackboard/whiteboard
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To
make more use of phonemic chart
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To
get learners to work with different partners
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To
get quiet learners to answer the questions
TEACHING AIDS – Things /Materials we can use to
support our teaching in the classroom.
PROCEDURES – What the learners and students
will do at each stage of the lesson.
Important
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We
should not plan to do too much in a lesson. The amount we plan to cover will
depend on the length of the lesson and on the learners’ level.
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Learners
also need to know what the lesson is going to be about. It is often helpful to
announce our aims (or write them on the board) at the beginning of a lesson,
and/or to repeat them at the end.
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Learners
of all ages find it helpful to know why they are doing things. For younger
learners the aims of a lesson can be described in very simple language,
focusing on the things they will do in the lesson and in the language knowledge
they will take away with it. (For example, “Today we’re going to read a story
and learn how to describe people in English.)
TIMING – length of time needed for each
stage
INTERACTION
PATTERNS –
ways in which learners work at different stages, i.e. individually, in pairs,
in groups, as a whole class.
LEVEL – Who are we planning the lesson
for.
TIMETABLE FIT – How the lesson is connected to
the last lesson and or the next one.
KEY WORDS -
The words you are going to teach.
LANGUAGE STRUCTURE – The structure you are going to
practice in this class.
EXTENSION IDEIAS – Possible ideas and extra activities that you might want to include in
case you have an extra time.
ENGLISH
LESSONS PLANNING FORM
TOPIC:
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Timing and Material
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What the teacher does
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What the children do/ Interaction
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Source: Tkt (Inspiration)
