LESSON PLANS
Teaching lesson plans and tips
Here you will find tips, ideas for English language teaching lesson plans and activities.
Introducing-oneself-activity as an icebreaker
The most important issue an efl or esl teacher faces in the first day of school is to alleviate the stress generated by the encounter. I suggest an activity for the students to introduce themselves to each other.
These activities can be used to refine understanding of students vocabulary schematic knowledge and activate vocabulary related to the same semantic network. They can be done as pre-reading activities or as a game.
Teaching restrictive vs non restrictive relative clauses
This activity requires that students have some knowledge of relative clauses. The aim of the activity is to help students distinguish restrictive (defining) relative clauses from non restricitive (non defining) clauses.
Dictogloss – Another Variation of Dictaion
Dictation is not considered an old fashioned activity any more. A lot f teachers have discovered that it’s a rich mine for developing learners vocabulary and structural competence. The teacher’s role in modern variations of this activity is no longer considered central. Learners are given more control of the activity.
EFL learners have difficulty understanding and interacting with native speakers because the nature of native speakers language differ more or less from the artificial language that we, as EFL teachers, use in the classroom.
In this activity students are encouraged to do a resarch and write a biography about a prominent woman who made history.
The importance of lesson planning
Why is lesson planning important? How is lesson planning important for the teacher? For the learners? What do you take into account when you design a lesson plan?
This activity presents third conditional sentences. Students will be able to identify conditional sentence type three, its meaning and how it is formed.
Songs are an effective way learn English because of many reasons.
Play-stop-go-back dictation activity
Dictation is one of the oldest activities. It is thought, unduly, to be an old fashioned, teacher-centered and uncommunicative activity. Nevertheless, it still has its place in ELT. The activity that I will present in this post is a variation of the traditional dictation.
Expressions of Advice Lesson Plan
This activity teaches students expressions of advice (asking for and giving advice.) The materials needed are sheets of paper and pens or pencils. The activity takes about 50 minutes.
Brainstorming is a tool that uses a relaxed, informal atmosphere combined with lateral thinking to solve problems. In spite of its importance in the generation of new ideas, many students do not have enough training to use it. This activity will teach students to brainstorm effectively. It can be carried out in a one-period session. No materials are required apart from a pen or pencil and sheets of paper.
This activity teaches students to write persuasive essay. The activity takes about 2-3 session periods.
This is an activity that helps students develop an awareness of both grammar and writing skills. It can be carried out in a one-period session. No materials are required apart from a pen or pencil and sheets of paper.
By the end of this activity students will learn 26 new words and use them in sentences or to write a story. The materials required are a dictionary, paper, pen or pencil. The activity takes about one or two class periods
This is an activity that teaches students writing skills. The students have to write a one-act play using process writing. It is done individually or in pairs and may be carried out over several weeks. No Materials are required.
Travel vocabulary
Level: beginners
Objectives: travel vocabulary, learners cooperation, writing a paragraph using travel vocabulary
Materials: worksheets containing the task below.
Time: about 10 minutes.
EFL and ESL environment activity – mini research
Over the past few years, the enviromental problems have gained a recognition around the world. “Green” issues have turned up as the subject of newspapers, magazines, TV documentaries, news report… This can be an invaluable source for EFL and ESL teachers to devise activities that would link the classroom to the world.
The following activity teaches students to undertake a mini research.
By the end of this activity students will be able to write a poem about what they are thankful for. The activity can be carried out in about 30 minutes.
Keeping a journal – a writing activity
Keeping a written record of what students have done each day, have thought about, or imagined can be a good way to train their writing skills. This activity teaches students to keep writing regularly in a journal . The materials needed are notebooks and pens. The journal is to be handed in to the teacher on regular basis ( once a week / a forthnight/ month.) The teacher should not over correct students writng as this may discourage them. Some succint comments, however, are welcome.
This activity teaches students compound nouns, their form and meaning. The matrerials required are cards and pens or pencils. It can last for 30 minutes.
Elaborating and expanding sentences
This activity teaches students how to add details to sentences. The materials required are crayons or colored pencils and drawing paper. The activity can last for 40 minutes.
This activity teaches students how to organize their writing in a logical order. The whole class participates in the writing process, but the activity is best done in group work. It doesn’t require any materials apart from pens or pencils and sheets of paper. It can last for about 40 minutes.
Subject-Verb Agreement Lesson Plan
This activity will help students be able to identify the verb and the subject of any sentence and discover how the verb must agree with the subject in number regardless of the word (s) or phrases between them.
This language activity can be used to teach the alphabet or review vocabulary.
“I have a dream” – writing activity
This lesson plan activity relates the classroom to the problems the world is facing. It takes as the starting point one of te most beautiful speeches about civil rights.
The objective of this activity is to help students understand cause and effect relationships, recognize them when reading and use them in their writing and speaking.
This activity helps students identify the elements of a paragraph and learn how to write a paragraph. The materials recquired are envelopes containing individual sentences, a tape and sheets of paper.The paragraphs can be taken from books or written by the teacher and are arranged in a series of individual sentences using a large font.
Speaking is one of the most importanat language skills. Few activities help students stimulate this skill. Role Play is one of them. It is the best way to simulate conversation and can be an excellent teaching tool if done properly.
Introducing yourself and family members
This is an activity that will help students develop both the vocabulary related to “family” and the ability to talk about themselves and family members. Materials required are papers and pencils. The activity can last about 30.
This activity can be used to review vocabulary related to food, dishes, food cultural differences, healthy and unhealthy food.
Why do teachers need lesson plans?
A lesson plan is a lesson “project” written down on paper. It is only a “project” because a lot of unpredictabe events occur in the classroom. It is also a dreaded part of instruction that most teachers detest. It nevertheless provides a guide for managing the learning environment. As one of the teacher’s roles is [...]
Although a lesson plan doesn’t necessarily equate a successful lesson, it will undoubtedly ensure a coherent view of the teaching procedure in the teacher’s mind. A well organized lesson plan serves as a guideline for managing the learning process and outlines beforehand the decisions he must make about the methods, techniques strategies and procedures he [...]
Grammar review lesson activity for beginners
A grammar activity to prepare for the end of the year exam or to review grammar points in the beginning of the year or to raise awareness of what has already been learnt and where problems still lie. This activity is very effective because each question focuses on one important, specific grammar area.
English teaching games
Fun ideas for English teaching games in the ESL, EFL, TEFL class.
Nothing can be more motivating and effective in a language teaching classroom than doing things with words. This game helps students review action verbs and fosters their long term retention of these verbs. The materials needed are action cards and a dice.
This game can be used to review vocabulary such as opposites. But it might be adapted to teach any language point.
Objective:
- Revising vocabulary
- Spelling
Objectives:
- describing
- vocabulary:
- adjectives (black, white, tall, long…)
- clothes
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