GSE Teaching English Speaking
Final assignments
Lesson plan and materials (speaking lesson)
Create a speaking lesson plan and materials.
The lesson can be for any age and level.
The lesson can follow the E-I-F framework, or it can be based around a few speaking activities.
The lesson can be for any age and level.
The lesson can follow the E-I-F framework, or it can be based around a few speaking activities.
Tips for starting an E-I-F lesson:
Choose suitable target language and a topic.
Here are some examples of different types of target language:
The lesson should be designed in a way to introduce the target language with a focus on meaning and context of use.
The internalize stage should be scaffolded, perhaps starting with the vocabulary and then building up to using the full target language expressions.
Choose suitable target language and a topic.
Here are some examples of different types of target language:
- Simple Q+A: "What's the time? It's __ o'clock" // "Do you like ___? Yes, I do/No, I don't"
- Grammar: Past tense "Where did you do? I went to the bank" // Comparative "The horse is bigger than the mouse” (TIP: choose a context for the grammar to be used)
- Situational: Opening bank account // Ordering in a restaurant // Asking for directions (TIP: find a dialogue to choose some good expressions and questions)
- Functional: Apologizing // Suggesting // Agreeing ... (TIP: choose a topic that matches the function)
The lesson should be designed in a way to introduce the target language with a focus on meaning and context of use.
The internalize stage should be scaffolded, perhaps starting with the vocabulary and then building up to using the full target language expressions.
| tl_worksheet.pdf |
Purpose for writing lesson plans:
In your everyday teaching, you may never write detailed lesson plans. However, writing a detailed lesson helps you to explicilty think about how you will organize and proceed with each step of a lesson. Creating detailed lesson plans helps to approach lesson planning with a clear perspective informed by teaching concepts and good practice.
In your everyday teaching, you may never write detailed lesson plans. However, writing a detailed lesson helps you to explicilty think about how you will organize and proceed with each step of a lesson. Creating detailed lesson plans helps to approach lesson planning with a clear perspective informed by teaching concepts and good practice.
General tip for writing lesson plans:
A lesson plan should have enough detail so that anybody reading can understand exactly what the teacher and the students are doing at each step of the lesson. Another teacher should be able to follow your lesson plan and teach approximately the same lesson that you planned. Include enough detail. Here are some examples that need improving and more detail:
"explain the meaning of the words" = how? with what material?
"check students have understood" = how? what questions will you ask?
A lesson plan should have enough detail so that anybody reading can understand exactly what the teacher and the students are doing at each step of the lesson. Another teacher should be able to follow your lesson plan and teach approximately the same lesson that you planned. Include enough detail. Here are some examples that need improving and more detail:
"explain the meaning of the words" = how? with what material?
"check students have understood" = how? what questions will you ask?
A good lesson plan should:
- give lots of speaking practice
- have lots of variety ~ various materials, learning styles, activities, and so on
- be student-centered
- give the students lots of skills practice
- include contextualizing, modeling, scaffolding, checking, personalizing
Materials can be found online or created. All digital materials (PPT, worksheet, flashcards, etc.) should be included with the lesson plan. For realia (toys, puppets, crafts, etc.), you can include a picture in the lesson plan.
Example lessons
These lesson plans are examples for how to write lesson plans. These files are just the lesson plans, the materials have not been included here.
These lesson plans are examples for how to write lesson plans. These files are just the lesson plans, the materials have not been included here.
| example_lesson_plan_1.pdf |
| example_lesson_plan_2a.pdf |
Lesson plan templates + general tips
| activity_route_map_form_-_speaking.docx |
| general_teaching_and_lesson_planning_tips_.pdf |