Planning Lessons and Courses

Planning Lessons and Courses

1. Planning is a thinking skill

   • There are a number of general areas to think about
     • * Atmosphere: visualise the characterisitic and imagine the experience of the lesson
       • * The Learners: engage, enjoy and benefit from it?
         • * The aims: achieve or hoping to achieve
           • * The teaching point: subject matter of the lesson or languages will be studied.
             • * The Challenge: challenge the learners
           • * Classroom management: what are you saying, sitting stage take minutes, working in the class
       • * The tasks and teaching procedures: things the learners will do, what use and sequence come in
         • * Materials: what they will use?

2. How do people learn language?

   • Exposure - it comes from a text that is realistic
   • Authentic exposure - it is being used fairly naturally.
     • Reading magazines, books,etc. Listening to recordings, radio,etc.
       • Output - makes the load on the learner less demanding
         • Authentic output - Speaking or writing
           • discussions meetings
           • small talk writing a postcard
           • negotiations chatting in class
         • Restricted output - that makes the load on the learner less demanding
     • Watching English videos or news. Living where the language is used.
   • Restricted exposure - simplified graded language

3. Sequencing lesson components - Focus on language study.

   • Restricted exposure
     • Clarification
       • Restricted output
         • Use language for themselves
       • Focus in on a piece of language
     • Get to see or hear examples

4. Formal Lesson Planning