Lesson Plan: part # 2

Lecture # 8

Review of Lecture # 7

• Teacher’s preparation is a must for a teacher.

• Lesson plan reflects teacher’s preparation.

• A clear and explicit presentation of aims and the procedure by which they are achieved.

• Preparing a checklist: what and where to teach?

• Time line for each Stage (3P’s)

• A Record for Future Reference and Re-use.

• Aims

• Aids; Anticipated Problems; Concept; Procedure

Influences on the Content of the Lesson

• Students’ views

Influences on the Content of the Lesson

• Despite the enormous variety of published material and teaching aids at the disposal of language teachers;

• There are a number of factors which can severely restrict their freedom of choice of techniques and materials for a particular lesson.

• In general terms, these stem from the physical teaching situations, the nature of the students, the influences of an organization in determining a syllabus and the way in which people are understood to learn language.

Practical Constraints

• Time• Frequency of Lessons• The time of day• The number of students• Availability of aids

The Teacher

• Personality of teacher

• For some teachers role play is an important methodological repertoire…for others it is an unknown area full of risks….

• Attitude of a teacher

The Students

• The need of the students

• Students’ present level of English

• Age and interests of the students

• Students’ language learning background

• Attitude and personality of students

• Mixed-ability classes

Motivation and the Maintenance of interest

• Context

• Relevance and Meaningfulness of lesson

• Motivation and interest

The Influences of Syllabus and Exams

• Student needs→ Syllabus →aims of lesson →lesson procedure →achievement of lesson aims

→achievement of syllabus objectives →satisfaction of students’ needs

Summary

• So we discussed in this lecture

• Despite the enormous variety of published material and teaching aids at the disposal of language teachers;

• There are a number of factors which can severely restrict their freedom of choice of techniques and materials for a particular lesson.

• In general terms, these stem from the physical teaching situations, the nature of the students, the influences of an organization in determining a syllabus and the way in which people are understood to learn language.

• Time ; Frequency of Lessons ; The time of day ;The number of students

Availability of aids

• The teacher

• The students and motivation