How do you plan your lessons? Talk about your experience: How do you plan your lessons? Do you plan your lessons from scratch or use a Teacher’s Book? Are you happy with it? Do you ever plan what you will be saying in class? How much of your lesson is based on a Student’s Book? What do you think a good lesson should involve?

1 Which person am I describing? Watch a demo lesson: 1 Which person am I describing?

Watch a demo lesson: 2 Listen and do the task

Watch a demo lesson: 3 How did the man describe his girlfriend? 4 Look at some words to describe people:

Watch a demo lesson: 5 Using the words from the exercise, describe these people to your partner and guess.

What was the lesson’s objective? Let’s check: What was the lesson’s objective? Learn/ teach appearance vocabulary, practice describing people, practice listening for general comprehension. What was the procedure? Started with a warm-up (to check what ss know and to prepare them for the topic), then did the listening task, then worked with the target language, then did some practice.

Lesson planning essentials What actually happens when people learn languages? IGNORANCE EXPOSURE NOTICING UNDERSTANDING PRACTICE ACTIVE USE

Lesson planning essentials And here is it correlates with lesson stages:

Sequencing lesson components output (controlled output) exposure (presentation) practice (clarification) warm-up output (controlled output)

Sequencing lesson components output (controlled output) exposure -skills practice Language focus warm-up (lead in) response