4:48 PM Lesson Plan Aims | |
A successful lesson is all about setting realistic aims that meet the students' needs and achieving them! Here's a list of aims and sub-aims, by no means exhaustive: 1. Introducing and practising new vocabulary. 2. Revising previously taught vocabulary. 3. Introducing a new grammatical point. 4. Introducing new functional language. 5. Revising or reviewing one or more grammatical points. 6. Revising or reviewing functional exponents. 7. Giving controlled/less-controlled/freer practice of a language point. 8. Contrasting two (or more) grammatical points. 9. Contrasting two (or more) functional exponents. 10. "Warmers/icebreakers" - getting to know your students. 11. Raising awareness/ear training and/or practising aspects of phonology: a) pronunciation of phonemes/individual sounds b) word stress c) sentence stress d) intonation e) features of connected speech 11. Error correction work (usually revising previously taught language) 12. Self-access work. 13. Learner training. 14. Developing reading skills - prediction/skimming/scanning/inferring, etc. 15. Developing listening skills - prediction/gist/for specific information/inference, etc. 16. Developing speaking skills - fluency/accuracy practice/ consolidating recently taught language. 17. Freer speaking (e.g. role play) for revision of previously taught language. 18. Developing writing sub-skills - paragraph-writing/focus on linking devices, etc. 19. Developing study skills - note-taking/summarizing. 20. Developing dictionary skills. 21. Promoting interest in the culture. 22. Using video to build awareness of non-verbal communication. 23. Integrating the four skills. 24. Simulations for revision of previously taught language / for fluency practice. 25. To create a relaxed, non-threatening atmosphere in the classroom. By Ruth Hamilton (Phil's EFL Support Site for English Language Teachers studying for Masters or Diplomas). | |
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