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at the plan during the planning stage and/or before the lesson and will
usually refer to it during feedback on the lesson.
What should be included in a lesson plan?
Information to be included in a lesson plan can be considered under the
following headings:
Aims, procedure, approach(es) and activities, materials, aids and
equipment, information about the students, anticipated problems.
Aims
Question you need to ask (and answer) are not only what do I, the
teacher, aim to do? But also, what do I expect the students to do and/or
to have achieved by the end of the lesson? What specific language will
they understand and use? Or what specific skills will they have developed?
Example
To present and practice why don’t you…? For giving advice. The students
will understand that why don’t you +infinitive can be used to give advice
to a friend. They will be able to use the structure with: go (home), take
(an aspirin), etc. They will be able to give appropriate responses: ok, I
will.
Procedure
This is the part of the lesson plan which lays out the steps the stages in
the lesson to ensure that the aim(s) is achieved. You should indicate on
your plan what will be done at each stage and shy (the stage aims), the
approximate time, the materials you will use, and perhaps details of any
complex instructions you are going to give or questions you plan to ask.
In order to do this, you have to consider how you will order the stages
and the approach (es), activities, and materials you will use at each stage.
You will have to answer these questions:
How much time do I have?
Approximately how will I divide up the lesson into stages?
How much time will each stage take?
You also need to ask yourself:
What will be the aim of each stage?
How will the stages be linked?
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