1. A Sample for high school course book
LESSON PLANNING
A Sample for high school course book

2. Contents What is lesson planning?
A lesson plan is an extremely useful tool that serves as a combination guide, resource and historical document reflecting our teaching philosophy m students population, text books, and most importantly, our goal for our students. (Celce-Murcia, 2001) 1 2 3 4

3. Lesson Planning Why Lesson Plans:
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Benefits of daily lesson planning for the English teachers:
A plan can help the teacher think about content, materials, sequencing, timing, ad activities.
plan provides security in unpredictable situations in the classroom.
A plan is a log of what has been taught.
A plan can help a substitute teacher to smoothly take over a class when the teacher can not teach.
A lesson plan guide but not dictate the teacher.

4. Lesson Planning A sample Model for lesson planning:
The first stage consists of “ problem conception” in which planning starts with a discovery cycle of the integration of the teacher‘s goal, knowledge, and experience.
The second stage sees the problem formulated and solution achieved. (Yinger, 1980)

5. Lesson Planning Why teachers are deviating from the original plan:
Serve the common good
Teach the moment
Further the lesson
Accommodate students’ learning styles
Promote students
Distribute the wealth

6. Lesson planning Elements and consideration of a lesson plan:
Clear stages: warm up(1); lead in(2); main activity(3); follow up(4); and wind down(5) – and smooth transition between them.
A unifying theme, running through the conversation, listening, reading, and writing activities.
Appropriate relationship between objectives, activities, materials, and procedures.
Attention to both communicative use of language and formal correctness in the language. i.e. Fluency & accuracy
Consideration of the learners’ interests and learning conditions, as well as the grammatical-functional items in the syllabus.
Taking care of an old friend of teachers: ( i+1)

7. Lesson planning Some guide lies for ordering components of a lesson:
Put the harder tasks earlier
Have quieter activities before lively ones
Think about a transition (smoothly moving from one activity to another).
Pull the class together at the beginning and at the end
End on a positive note( psychology of the students)
A good lesson plan has a sense of coherence and flow.
A good lesson plan exhibits variety.
A good lesson is flexible.

8. Lesson planning Elements of a lesson pan: Number of the students
Overall aims
Aims of each stage
Course book used
Number of the exercises
What the learners do at each stage
What the teacher does at each stage
Materials
Homework
Grouping of the learners: individuals, pairs, groups, whole class
Aids used
Timing of each stage
Skills practiced

9. Lesson planning Page numbers Anticipated problems New vocabulary
Extra activities
Age of learners
The date
Interaction: S S , S T
Different colors for important points
Review of last lesson
Sex of learners

10. Lesson planning Short description of each activity Level of class
time of class
Name or number of class
Length of class
Which learners work together
Abbreviations: L = learner

11. Lesson planning Types of possible aims:
Topic aims: Ex. Learners read a bout a new topic such as dinosaurs
Grammar aims: Ex. learners discuss the difference between direct and indirect speech
Communication aims: Ex. learners talked to each other about what they do every Saturday
Vocabulary aims: Ex. learners match picture of clothing with words
Function aims: Ex. learners learn how to complain in a shop.
Skill aims; learners write holiday postcard
Pronunciation aims: ex. learners identify the difference between the long /i/ and short /i/. (listening)

12. Lesson planning
Group dynamic aims: Ex. learner discuss their learning experience this term
Reviewing aims: Ex. learners revise descriptions of places
Cultural aims: Ex. learners read about recent political events in an English speaking country
Organizational aims: Ex. learners are given their end of year reports.

13. Thank You !