TSL 3105 Teaching Listening

and Speaking
How to plan a lesson

Elements of a lesson plan

PRELIMINARIES
Form
Subject
Date
Time
Theme (People/Environment/Social Issues)
Topic

Objectives
Why do you have objectives? It helps you
to:
a- be sure that you indeed know what it is
you want to accomplish.
b- preserve the unity of your lesson
c- predetermine whether or not you are
trying to accomplish too much
d- evaluate students success at the end
of, or after, the lesson.

Ctnd.
Objectives are most clearly captured in terms of
stating what students will do.
Try to avoid vague statements like:
- Students will learn about the passive voice.
- Students will practice some listening exercises.
Teachers would not be able to confirm the
realization of any of these loosely stated
objectives.
The objectives should allow you to turn back to
after a lesson and determine how well students
accomplished the objectives.

Two types of objectives

General Objectives
- Final learning outcomes that you will need to measure
and evaluate
- E.g. Students will successfully request information
about airplane arrivals and departures
Specific Objectives
- Steps that build upon each other and lead to general
objective
- E.g. Students will comprehend and produce ten new
vocabulary items.
Students will read and understand an airline schedule.

Elements of a lesson plan

Educational emphases
Teaching Aids

- Good planning involves knowing what

you need to take with you or to arrange to
have in your classroom.
Language content
Previous knowledge
References

Elements of a lesson plan

TEACHING PROCEDURE
Set Induction (3-5 minutes)
Development (20-25 minutes)
Closure/Conclusion (3-7 minutes)

Elements of a lesson plan

END MATTERS
Follow-up activity
Self-reflection
Supervisors comments