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This unit taught me how to use basic materials that I might find in a course book and designing an ESA lesson plan that uses those types of activities in a class. Using the role-play activity as an example, I got to practice my lesson-plan writing skills and think about ways that what seems like a simple exercise, and is unaccompanied by any other directive text, can be used in the ESA lesson method and become relevant in a classroom setting. This unit also covered the differences between types of class resources available, and distinguished the utility of both kinds (authentic and created) in different settings. I know that above all, activities used in the class must be engaging, interesting, and relevant to both the students' problem areas, their nationalities/cultural backgrounds, their interests, and their goals for taking the course. I need to be able to draw upon creative materials and authentic materials and using my best judgment, create lesson plans that supplement certain activities to reach lesson goals, while being creative and finding authentic sources through which students can practice their real-life usage of the language points they are learning in each class.
