Hmm, lesson plans. They're so important aren't they for a well-prepared and
smooth running lesson I'm going to share with you today not only what a perfect
lesson plan looks like but we're going to do a bit deeper together a different
approach to planning want to find out more
I'm Deirdre Nicholas from palm tree teaching TV teacher speaker and your
personal English language coach so the perfect lesson you'll be a lot closer to
having a perfect lesson with a plan of course there are lots of ways of
creating lesson plans I've known teachers who've written a
whole lesson plan on a little scrap of paper and others who've made much more
complicated ones as well I've seen lesson plans that are about 35 pages
long but I'm not suggesting you do that for every lesson now I know that you
know how to create a great lesson plan but before we go on to the more advanced
stuff let's just have a very quick look at planning firstly of course make sure
you have a good lesson plan template that you enjoy working with everyone
varies so you just choose one for yourself a great way of planning your
lesson is to think of your lesson as having a great meal in a restaurant
people come to the restaurant because they're hungry and that's just like your
students for English so you offer them a great satisfying meal with a starter a
main course a dessert and if they're really lucky cheese and biscuits and
coffee too so your starter in your meal is your warmer to get your students
engaged in the lesson get them moving around and get the brain cells starting
to work in English and then of course the main meal or the main body of the
lesson it may be a P P P lesson where you present the new material and then
you get your students to produce it and practice it in a controlled followed by
a freeway which is your dessert you could of course use a different lesson
plan model and doesn't have to be presentation production and practice
it's entirely up to you and then of course the very best meals and your
lessons have a little something to finish with which is cheese and
get sand coffee and in your case it's you're rounding up of what the lesson
has contained your plenary so the idea is that in the same way that people
leave a restaurant full happy and satisfied but wanting to come back again
because it was so good this is the same as your students will feel after your
lesson okay so far so good but let's look beyond the mechanics of
the lesson planning and let's look at it in a more advanced way Oh before I go on
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what are you trying to achieve in this lesson and how are you going to do that
here's some points to consider when you're planning your lesson one
make sure your activities that you plant a link be clear and make your students
clear about what the main topic of the lesson is if you link the activities in
a logical way they will follow you through the lesson and learn with you
number two ask yourself how can I arouse their interest involve your students as
soon as the class starts you could show them a picture a photo or an object
connected with the topic of the lesson of course get them interested get them
asking questions make sure that you include plenty of opportunities for your
students to practice using the target language in free practice because after
all that's what they're going to need in real life
number three pace now this is linked as well to engaging your students vary the
pace of your lesson and your activities so if you have a calm quiet activity
like for example reading and then comprehension questions make the next
activity really Lively maybe for example a run to the board
activity or the jumping game to give feedback number 4 how can you challenge
your students every student of every level needs to be challenged if not they
lose motivation and there will be very little learning build on what they
already know and stretch them number 5 make sure that every student can access
something in the lesson now what I mean by this is while you challenge the more
able students don't let the less able students feel left out
make sure that you've also got materials and activities in your plan
that the less able people can do as well of course if they start to feel left out
they lose motivation and that of course is where you start to get behavioral
issues number 6 lesson objectives when you plan think about why those students
are doing those particular activities that you've planned how do these
activities contribute to the objective of the lesson if they don't get rid of
them number 7 explain clearly think about how
you're going to explain each activity explanations should be short clear
visual and simple I've seen trainee teachers explain the activities in more
complicated language than the actual activity and this is let the students
are bit confused check understanding by getting a student
to demonstrate to eight plan your board work make sure that your board work and
your writing are clear and big enough you can make a diagram before the lesson
of how you're going to plan out the board number nine what vocabulary do
your students need to complete all the tasks in your lesson so prepare before
the lesson all the vocabulary that your students will need to complete all the
tasks and all the activities effectively so if they need more how you're going to
present that in an engaging way don't just give
them a list so finally number 10 plan for problems now I know this is a
difficult one but you can certainly plan for some problems for example if you're
not sure if an activity will work think about how you can solve this problem
perhaps it's too hard to complicate it now you can't solve the problem don't do
it or maybe try it out on another group first okay so now you're all set for a
fabulous lesson don't forget to reflect afterwards of course if something went
particularly well make a note of it use it again now I've got lots of other
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