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Lesson Plan Format for EFL ESL Classes. Intermediate Level Syllabus Outline for ESL EFL TESL TEFL TESOL English Courses. Creative ways to teach English. Basic Survival Teacher's Guide. Teaching English to Students. Teacher Talk Time. How to Create an ESL Reading Lesson Plan. The Parts of a Reading Lesson Reading and listening should be treated somewhat differently from speaking and writing when planning an ESL lesson.

How to Create an ESL Reading Lesson Plan

This is because they are receptive language skills while speaking and writing are productive language skills.The goal of all lesson plans should be for the students to produce the language, of course, but different skills focuses require a slightly different path, if you will. While productive lessons typically follow the PPP format, receptive lessons have a language focus and pre-, post-, and during reading activities, also called PDP (pre-, during, post-) format. Lead In As with a PPP lesson, you will want to begin the class by activating the students' background knowledge (what they already know about a topic or concept) and reduce their affective barriers (basically, make them feel comfortable using English.)

Language Focus The language focus can occur at various points during a reading lesson. Pre-Reading During Reading Post-Reading Wrap up. Lesson Name: How to plan an ESL/EFL (English as a Second Language) Lesson Plan - Indianapolis Living Abroad. Whether you teach English as a Second Language (ESL) to adults or children, this foolproof lesson plan template is a great base to work from.

How to plan an ESL/EFL (English as a Second Language) Lesson Plan - Indianapolis Living Abroad

Add to it and change it as you please, or follow every bit of it (a good idea if you're a new ESL teacher planning your first ESL lesson). This Lesson plan format will also work no matter what country you’re teaching English in, be it Japan, Korea, China or the USA. To begin, keep this in mind: It’s important that you keep your lessons fun. Remember that learning a new language, especially English, is very difficult and no matter who or where you’re teaching you need to be able to motivate your students. And really, what better way to motivate someone than with the incentive of having a good time? Another tip for you ESL teachers is this: The less time you lecture your class, the better off you and your students will be.

Now on to the simple, yet very practical, lesson plan: 1- Greeting. TPR: Total physical response. 3. 4. 5. 6. Lesson Plan for new TEFL teachers - 4 Presents for the English relatives. Here’s a lesson idea in response to the ELT Bites Xmas challenge.

Lesson Plan for new TEFL teachers - 4 Presents for the English relatives

(It also conforms to the previous ELTBites challenge of ‘no technology usage’ in classroom…and it was actually unplugged in the first instance, as I improvised it, due to no planning time in mad, time-pressure, crazy last week) I used this idea in three different, monolingual, low A2 level classes in Berlin last week and it worked well every time. This is quite a controlled lesson with little baby steps, but these Ss are very low level, mostly old and the majority of them like (and respond well to) this learning style.

In the previous week, I had introduced ‘extended family vocab’, so this followed on nicely from that. Even though this was done as a Xmas lesson, it could work well at any time of year…but the Christmassy vibe with the thought of presents on everyone’s mind added somewhat to the feel….it could be used for a wedding/birthday/anniversary/family get together etc Adult woman Adult man Teenage girl T: OK. Firstclass. Sean Banville's Websites, Lesson Plans, Handouts, Worksheets. Ten Point Lesson Plan Checklist.doc. How to plan an ESL/EFL (English as a Second Language) Lesson Plan - Indianapolis Living Abroad.