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Warm-up Activity Revising the present progressive by doing actions (given that it was presented before) Pretend that you read a book and ask: What am I doing, now? Eliciting: “You are reading a book” Ask some students to pretend to do some actions and ask other students: What...
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19/11/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning, Teach Grammar
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Stories are effective educational tools because they are believable, memorable and entertaining. Children usually enjoy listening to, reading and telling stories so the use of storytelling creates a good learning environment. The Benefits of Using Stories in Teaching Children According to (Ellis and Brewster, 1991, p.1) in The...
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17/03/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning, Teach Reading, TEFL to Young Learners
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1. Setting the Lesson Objectives It’s important to write SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timed) objectives for your lessons. Here are some examples of this kind of objectives. Once you’ve have set your objectives, you need to think of the context or situations where the language is used....
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22/02/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning
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What is a Lesson Plan? * A lesson plan is a framework for a lesson as you should mention the target language included in the lesson; vocab, structure, and function. Additionally, you should mention the main language skill you’re going to emphasize. * If you imagine that a...
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21/02/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning
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A lesson plan is a framework for a lesson. If you imagine a lesson is like a journey, then the lesson plan is the map. It shows you where you start, where you finish and the route to take to get there. Whatever the level of your experience,...
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16/11/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning
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As a teacher of English to young learners, lesson planning is very important. As a matter of fact, lesson plans for teachers are considered as a road map for reaching the target learning outcomes and achieving the objectives of each lesson as quickly as possible. In the kindergarten...
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21/10/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning, Printables Library, Professional Development, Teach Pronunciation, Teach Reading, Teach Vocabulary
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Integrating the main four language skills means combining reading, writing listening and speaking in foreign language teaching in the classroom. In some cases, teachers separate language skills and highlight just one skill at a time. That was often for instructional purposes but even if it were possible to...
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08/10/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning, Professional Development
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As a teacher, you need to reflect on your teaching practices frequently and take responsibility to improve your performance. Many aspects related to teaching e.g. lesson planning, classroom management techniques, language practice, … need to be improved from time to another so that you can boost your classroom...
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29/09/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Classroom Management, Correcting Mistakes, Lesson Planning, Professional Development
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How Students Learn Many teachers think that students learn while listening to their explanations in the classroom. Students may store the new information for a short time, but this information will not be stored in the long-term memory until they do something with it. Within this context, active...
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25/09/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning, Professional Development
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What is Lesson Planning? What is a lesson plan? Why is it important to plan every lesson? What are the principles of lesson planning? You can find the answers to these questions in this post: What Every EFL Teacher Ought to Know About Lesson Planning. What Should Be...
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14/09/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning
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