Articles tagged ‘Common Questions’
Notes On ESL Lesson Plans
By Katie | December 10th, 2007 |
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A potential EFL teacher recently contacted me to ask: what’s involved in planning a lesson? Of course it’s hard to give a definitive answer, but it’s a good question because it’s a large part of the job, and a part that’s often neglected in EFL blogs, at least this one.
I should start with the [...]
What’s Involved In Planning A Lesson?
By Katie | December 10th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Start here for the background please.
Vocabulary can be considered a lesson of its own: see how to teach a box of words (coming soon!)
I’d start by deciding what I’d cover and what my aims were. When you are working with a syllabus / from a book, this is pretty straightforward.
I would read the text [...]
“How Can You Teach Someone English If You Don’t Speak Their Language?”
By Katie | April 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
This is a wide question of course, and may show a lack of familiarity on the asker’s part with what’s involved in learning a language.
I’d explain it like this: learning a language is a process that happens over time. It’s not that one day you don’t know it and the next you do, [...]
