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Planning Awesome Lessons
Ashley Levin November 15, 2013
AgendaYour role in teaching English communication
Basics in creating an effective lesson
How to input effective pictures
How to expand a topic into multiple lessons
Sample lesson plans
General tips for challenging classes
Q&A
My School Izu Sogo Koko-Half Kogyou (vocational training), half
Sogo (general/academic course)
Teach 250 students total, class average is 20 students
Multi-media is not standard at my school. Projectors and TVs are unavailable
No textbook or existing curriculum in my class, so what should I teach?
Answer: Not grammar, writing, reading, but English Communication!
What does “Teaching English Communication” mean?
Your class is a break from normal textbook-based classes with the JTEs
The level of English in your classes should in general be lower than their other classes
Your class is a chance to apply what they know
What’s the target?
For my school, it’s for the students to come away thinking English is fun and practical
Basic Lesson Model
10 minutes- warm-up or review game
15 minutes- learning vocabulary
10 minutes- listening activity
15 minutes- competition/group activity
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50 minutes
Warm-up Activities Examples
Get students out of their chairs or have them move their desks
Use the black board (ex. whiteboard relay race, spelling competition)
Crossfire
Review Karuta
Basic Lesson Model
10 minutes- warm-up or review game
15 minutes- learning vocabulary
10 minutes- listening activity
15 minutes- competition/group activity
Introducing VocabularyUsually I have students match: Pictures with English wordsSentences (in English) with English wordsEnglish words with Japanese words
From EFL Press Books
Car Parts Vocabulary Example
Basic Lesson Model
10 minutes- warm-up or review game
15 minutes- learning vocabulary
10 minutes- listening activity
15 minutes- competition/group activity
Listening Activity Examples
Students will listen to a dialogue/monologue and: Fill-in-the-BlankCircle items from a listIdentify pictures
From EFLPressbooks
Listening Activity Example
From EFL Pressbooks
Basic Lesson Model
10 minutes- warm-up or review game
15 minutes- learning vocabulary
10 minutes- listening activity
15 minutes- competition/group activity
Competition/Group Activity Examples
Competition and games is the key to motivating low-level students!
Read and Run
Writing on Mini-Whiteboards
Board Games
Karuta
Read and Run: Competition Activity
Example
Board game: Example Group Activity
From EFL Press Books
How to expand on a lesson topic
Try to avoid one topic per lesson
Focus on topics that can be extended to several lessons
Example: The first lesson on a topic may focus on learning
and listening to vocabularyThe second lesson focuses on sentence structure
and writing/applying the vocabulary
Cooking Week 1Example lesson plan
Warm-up (5 minutes)
Vocabulary (20 minutes)Kitchen Vocabulary--students match pictures with words
Cooking Verbs--students match pictures with sentences
Listening (15 minutes)ALT reads a recipe dialogue with the JTE, students fill-in the blank
Competition (10 minutes) ALT reads recipes-students guess the dish they make?
Introducing Kitchen Vocabulary
Introducing Cooking Verbs
Cooking Listening Activity
Cooking Week 1: Competition Activity
Example
ALT reads, “Drop the spaghetti into the boiling salted water and cook for 6 to 9 minutes.
While the pasta cooks, combine the eggs, cheese, cream and olive oil in a bowl and stir until completely mixed.
Drain pasta, toss with the egg and cream mixture, then add the cooked bacon and chopped parsley. Serve right away, with additional grated cheese.”
Who can guess the dish this recipe makes?
Cooking Week 2:Example lesson plan
Warm-up (5 minutes)
Review Vocabulary (15 minutes) Crossword-can be done in teams or individually Word search for students who finish early
Reading Recipes (15 minutes) Students read sample recipes, fill-in missing
vocabulary Students read sample recipes then put them in order
Writing Recipes (10 minutes) Students write their own recipes
Cooking Crossword: Example Review Activity
Putting recipes in order: Example Activity
Worksheet modified from ISLcollective.com
Example StudentRecipe
Cooking Review Week Example Activity: Karuta
Review all vocabulary with Cooking Karuta picture cards
Also can be used to play Bingo
Tips
Tips: Dealing with mixed level classes
Always bring something extra! Especially for advanced classes
Crosswords and word searches--can be made easily from online generators
Extra activities give you peace of mind
Activities you don’t get to can be used for review the next lesson.
Tips: When a lesson doesn’t go as planned
Don’t get discouraged over failed lessons. Can be due to a number of factors: It takes time to learn students’ level Students performance in class can be due to other
factors
Don’t drive yourself insane trying to fix a lesson which failed
Things to improve for next time: Clearer explanation Giving more student and teacher demonstrations Check understanding before starting the activity
ConclusionDevelop your lesson format which can be
applied to any topic
Focus on topics that can be extended to several lessons
Focus on building on skills and previously learned vocabulary
Give lots of opportunities to review
Remember the target is for students to walk away thinking English is fun
Recommended Resources
ISLcollective.com, all worksheets can be modified
EFL Press books--great for pictures, activities and adopting whole lesson plans. Can order free samples easily online
Snagit-application for taking screen shots which makes editing pictures much faster
Q & A
Shuzenji, Izu-shi
Appendix
Determine what kind of test you’ll have
Listening- Pre-recorded CD or live. Examples include: dialogues with JTE, fill in the
blanks/dictation, circling pictures.
Speaking- Students have an interview with the ALTNeed to start early--usually a full semester projectStudents need a lot of practice time
Performance Test: Students write a 1-minute speech to recite in front of the ALT
Usually in addition to a listening/writing-based test
Health/body parts vocabulary example
Modified from ESLPress Books.