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Lesson Planning Effective lesson planning is crucial to good teaching. Let us look at an example of a lesson plan for a speaking focused Pre-intermediate lesson: PreIntermediatespeakingfocus.doc. You will notice that it follows the stages of: Warmer, Review, Target Language, Controlled practice, Free practice, and Homework. videos of this lesson are at the bottom of this page. While you are training, it is necessary to produce lesson plans with this kind of detail because you need to be clear on what you are teaching and how you will go about teaching it. You will also need lesson plans when being assessed or observed and when you start teaching. After you have been teaching a while, you will find you can reduce the amount of detail - as the procedures become ingrained. Here is a link to the Teach International 'Recommendations for Preparing Lesson Plans.doc'. This covers a step by step process for preparing speaking focussed lesson plans. Save the 'Recommendations for Preparing Lesson Plans.pdf' to your computer and follow the steps when preparing your first 4 - 6 lesson plans. Also, we provide some Starter Lesson Plans.doc which will help you, particularly for your first few lessons. These provide dialogues and aims according to levels. Being able to construct lessons with a speaking focus is critical because students and employers prefer a speaking emphasis. Once you are able to deliver speaking focussed lessons you will find it comparatively easy to build blended skills lessons - course books are invariably constructed on a blended skills approach. Because you started by teaching speaking focussed lessons you will invariably retain that emphasis when teaching blended skills lessons and when adapting course books - your students and employers will appreciate this emphasis. Two key stages (and the most difficult parts of the lesson planning design process) of a speaking focussed lesson plan are the Target Language and Free Practice stages. The Target Language stage is where you present new language - it will include a new grammar or a linguistic aspect of language. The Free Practice stage is where you attempt to practice that new aspect of language with simulated real world communication. The Free Practice stage will probably include designing materials and working out how to demonstrate the activity. You will find designing lesson plans a much easier process once you come to terms with the Target Language and Free Practice stages. The following videos will help you with this. Planning the Target Language stage
