Lesson Planning Vocab
The length of time needed for each stage.
Potential Answers: Timetable Fit, Assumptions, Possible Solutions, Timing, Interaction Patterns, Homework, Procedures
What is timing?
The purpose of a stage of the lesson.
What are stage aims?
We give this test to our students at the beginning of a course in order to find out what they know and do not know. It helps us make the decision about what we are going to teach.
What is a diagnostic test?
An objective activity where students sort words or phrases and then place them with other words, phrases, or pictures.
Potential Answers: Cloze Test (every nth word blanked out), Gap Fill (teacher selects gaps to fill), Reordering jumbled sentences, Sentence Transformation, Proof-reading, Matching
What is matching?
Language is best learnt if presented to learners through interesting topics which help them increase their knowledge of the world.
Potential answers: Lexical Approach, Functional Approach, Communicative Approaches, TPR, Content-Based Learning
What is a content-based learning?
What students do at home.
Potential Answers: Timetable Fit, Assumptions, Possible Solutions, Timing, Interaction Patterns, Homework, Procedures
What is homework?
The most important aim of a lesson. We make the freer practice match this aim.
What are main aims?
The test we give our students after finishing several units or after finishing a certain part of the course in order to find out what they have learnt.
What is a progress test.
Students complete a text with selected words blanked out. Tests knowledge of grammar and/or lexis. Marking can be difficult as gaps may allow more than one answer.
Potential Answers: Cloze Test (every nth word blanked out), Gap Fill (teacher selects gaps to fill), Reordering jumbled sentences, Sentence Transformation, Proof-reading, Matching
What is a gap fill?
Language is learnt by learning chunks as whole and complete units. Chunks needs to be noticed be learners in order to be learnt.
Potential answers: Lexical Approach, Functional Approach, Communicative Approaches, TPR, Content-Based Learning
What is the lexical approach?
Tasks and activities for each stage.
Potential Answers: Timetable Fit, Assumptions, Possible Solutions, Timing, Interaction Patterns, Homework, Procedures
What are procedures?
A smaller aim of a lesson. there can be more than one.
What are subsidiary aims?
The test we give our students at the end of a course in order to find out how well they have learnt the contents of the course.
What is an achievement test?
Tests grammatical knowledge, cohesion, and awareness of collocation. Objective task.
Potential Answers: Cloze Test (every nth word blanked out), Gap Fill (teacher selects gaps to fill), Reordering jumbled sentences, Sentence Transformation, Proof-reading, Matching
What is reordering jumbled sentences?
The best way to learn language is to use it in interaction rather than to learn (study) about it.
Potential answers: Lexical Approach, Functional Approach, Communicative Approaches, TPR, Content-Based Learning
What are communicative approaches?
Potential Answers: Timetable Fit, Assumptions, Possible Solutions, Timing, Interaction Patterns, Homework, Procedures
What is timetable fit?
Something the teacher wants to improve about his or her teaching.
What are personal aims?
The students take this kind of test in order to find out how good they are at a language.
What is a proficiency test?
"Complete the sentence so that it means exactly the same." Tests knowledge of grammatical structures and the relationships between them.
What is sentence transformation?
Language is learnt by first seeing new language in a context which shows its meaning. The reasons we communicate are the most important aspect of a language.
Potential answers: Lexical Approach, Functional Approach, Communicative Approaches, TPR, Content-Based Learning
What is the functional approach?
Ways in which learners work at different stages (i.e. individually, in pairs, in groups, as a whole class).
Potential Answers: Timetable Fit, Assumptions, Possible Solutions, Timing, Interaction Patterns, Homework, Procedures
What are interaction patterns?
An overall term we use for purposes of a lesson or activity.
What are aims?
The test that we give our students when we want to place them into the right course or level.
What is a placement test?
Assesses Ss' awareness of error. A highly realistic task which should encourage learners to check their own writing.
Potential Answers: Cloze Test (every nth word blanked out), Gap Fill (teacher selects gaps to fill), Reordering jumbled sentences, Sentence Transformation, Proof-reading, Matching
What is proofreading?
Learners often need a silent period to take in language, so they should not be forced to speak before they are ready.
Potential answers: Lexical Approach, Functional Approach, Communicative Approaches, TPR, Content-Based Learning
What is TPR?