Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson

Planning the Lesson

In This Chapter

▶ Looking at student levels

▶ Teaching in the every day

▶ Suiting the lesson to the students

▶ Knowing where your lesson is going

▶ Planning your time and students’ time in a lesson

▶ Introducing new language and encouraging students to use it

▶ Drawing up your lesson plan

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o you get the job and the students enrol on your course, ready to get

started. But what on earth are you going to teach them and how are you

going to put it together into a lesson? In this chapter, I tell you about the con-

tent and structure of an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) lesson.

Deciding What to Teach

When you select information to teach in your lessons, you need to think

about what level the students are at and how well your lesson fits into what

they already know and what they need to know.

Most courses have a basic syllabus that acts as a road map. An EFL syllabus

lists the major areas of grammar, vocabulary and functions (what you can do

with particular expressions) a course covers. Most EFL course books have a

list within the first few pages. Even if you’re working from your own materi-

als, it makes sense to set specific course goals including which words and

grammar you definitely want to cover.