Teaching English as a Foreign Language

60 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together Figure 4-2: A Pre- sentation, Practice and Production pyramid. P1 P2 P3 Within each sta ...

Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson 61 Assembling Presentation, Practice and Production After you decide ...

62 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together If there are several ways to use the new word or grammar point, don’t over- load the st ...

Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson 63 Figure 4-4: Bad and good exercises. Bad exercise Example: He/like ...

64 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together report writing. In Chapter 6 I talk about ideas for practice and production activities ...

Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson 65 ✓ Write your interaction patterns into your plans. On your lesson ...

66 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together ✓ Avoid echoing. Over enthusiasm may make you repeat everything the student says as tho ...

Chapter 5 Standing in the Spotlight: Presenting to the Class In This Chapter ▶ Asking for answers ▶ Using visual aids ▶ Making s ...

68 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together The pros and cons of using this technique are set out in the following list, but most t ...

Chapter 5: Standing in the Spotlight: Presenting to the Class 69 ✓ Deal with learners according to their level; don’t try to eli ...

70 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together ✓ Photos: Celebrity photos seem to work particularly well in EFL lessons, perhaps becau ...

Chapter 5: Standing in the Spotlight: Presenting to the Class 71 Showing simple tenses When you want to show that an action is i ...

72 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together You can use a similar method to show an action in the present perfect that started in t ...

Chapter 5: Standing in the Spotlight: Presenting to the Class 73 Whatever you have on the board should be legible and logical. S ...

74 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together In Figure 5-7, I show some words for weather and how they’re related. You could elicit ...

Chapter 5: Standing in the Spotlight: Presenting to the Class 75 Translation isn’t used in most EFL classrooms, but it’s an easy ...

76 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together Don’t spend time on inessentials. A basic object like a bath plug doesn’t really warran ...

Chapter 5: Standing in the Spotlight: Presenting to the Class 77 Presentations for vocabulary lesson on bodies of water to meet ...

78 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together You can use concept check questions such as: ✓ Do fish live in puddles? Why not? ✓ Give ...

Chapter 5: Standing in the Spotlight: Presenting to the Class 79 Conveying connotations Certain words imply emotions or attitude ...