Lesson Planning
This is the step-by-step description of activities, including what the teacher and the learners do.
What is the procedure?
This is a material like a real newspaper or a movie clip that was not created for language teaching.
What is authentic material?
These are the skills of understanding language you hear or read.
What are receptive skills?
This part of a lesson plan states what the learners will be able to do by the end of the lesson.
What is the main aim?
This term refers to a teaching tool that uses images, like flashcards or a chart, to help learners understand.
What is a visual aid?
These are the skills of using the language in a written or spoken way.
What are productive skills?
This section of a lesson plan helps a teacher prepare for potential issues in the classroom.
What are anticipated problems?
This is the process of changing a coursebook exercise to better suit your learners' level or interests
What is adapting materials?
This is the term for the stage where students are given a chance to freely use the language they have learned, often in a less structured activity.
What is a free practice stage?
This is the term for a short activity at the start of the lesson to get learners focused and ready to learn.
What is a warm-up?
This type of teaching activity involves dividing a text into parts and having learners share information to complete a task.
What is a jigsaw reading?
This is the stage of a lesson where the teacher presents new language or grammar rules to the students.
What is the presentation stage?
This is the term for a specific interaction pattern where learners work alone on a task.
What is individual work?
This is the term for a material that has been simplified from an authentic text to be more accessible for learners.
What is a graded reader?
This is the skill in which the learner is asked to identify the main idea of a text
What is reading/listening for gist?