Language Teaching Lesson Plans

Start with lesson aims

Begin with Creating Effective Language Lessons for an overview of a positive learning environment, learner-centered teaching, and planning and reviewing lessons. It offers a place to think about how the parts of a language lesson fit together.

Then move to Lesson planning and use of resources for language teaching. The maps with this title look at selecting aims and identifying the components of a lesson plan. They also ask what learners already know and what they need to know. Use those questions to frame the aims you want to work on.

Follow the plan through

The flowchart on the English lesson plan describes a plan as a guide for running a lesson. It includes the lesson goal and how that goal will be reached. After looking at the maps on aims, use the flowchart to follow the connection between a goal and the lesson itself.

Another mind map considers the introduction, objective and purpose of an English lesson taught as a foreign language. Its ideas include preparing learners for new topics and helping them feel relaxed and interested. Compare these ideas with the learner-centered points in the opening map.

Use the quiz alongside the maps

The quiz concerns the nature of approaches and methods in language teaching. Try it after exploring the planning maps, then return to the maps to consider how aims, learner needs and lesson components relate to your planning. The maps provide different starting points, so you can move between them as you work.

Place the topic in the unit

Language Teaching Lesson Plans is part of Lesson Planning in Education and pedagogy (incl. teaching methods, curriculum, educational psychology). Within this section, the resources offer different views of planning, from selecting aims to making a lesson or self-study guide communicative.

Choose a resource and use it to organize your next lesson-planning session.