Lesson Plan Format

Lesson Plan Format

1. Phases

   • 1. WARMING-UP
     • ice-breakers, asking about latest news, exploring students’ needs and likes, vocabulary games, puzzles, riddles, brainstorming on a topic, asking around, 5-minute games
       • 5-10 minutes
     • 2. ENGAGING
       • smartboard activities, videos, illustrations, songs, asking questions, charts, reading a text, comic strips, quick class surveys, brainstorming
         • Introduce new topic
       • 3. EXPLORING
         • probing questions
         • 4. CONSTRUCTING
           • students’ reports on the learning topic(s)
           • 5. PRACTICING
             • multiple choice, gap-filling, cloze, matching, open questions, error correction, dictations, ordering words/phrases, sentence construction
               • Teacher/self/peer correction
             • 6. EXTENDING
               • creating presentations, role-plays, stories, essays, debating
                 • Independent tasks
                 • Real-life situations
               • 7. WRAPPING-UP
                 • a summary of what was practiced in the lesson, a quick discussion about what students learned, open-ended questions, student evaluation of their progress, discussing students' difficulties and challenges, exit ticket
             • task-based activities: ordering and sorting information, matching captions / texts / recorded extracts to pictures or short notes, comparing / finding similarities and differences in texts, pictures, places or events, solving problems, storytelling, discovering or finding something new
           • teacher directly introducing, modeling and /or demonstrating a concept OR presenting a finished product as an example of an expected learning outcome
             • Explanation
   • Materials and time allocation

2. Header

   • date, program, name of the teacher, course number, performance indicator