It is as important to end an EFL lesson effectively as you start it. Your main aim is that your students leave the classroom with a good feeling about themselves and their learning. They should end their EFL lessons with a sense of achievement and the knowledge that they have made progress in their English. […]
Category: Lesson Planning
13 EFL Quickie Warmers to Start Your Class
A warmer is a motivating starting activity better called: zealous, suggestive, dynamic and enthusiastic. It is an activity done at the beginning of the lesson to activate students to become animated in the language class. It is considered as a tool designed to attract students’ attention. Advantages of warmers. For teachers, warmers enable them to: […]
Do You Know What ECRIF is?!
ECRIF stands for five phases of students’ learning: Encounter, Clarify, Remember, Internalize, Fluency. ECRIF is a framework for understanding learning, looking at how people learn rather than prescribing what teachers should or should not do. ECRIF framework focuses on the learning process that students go through as they work with the target skill or knowledge rather […]
The 5 Key Components of a Lesson Plan
1- Objectives: Write what you expect your students will do by the end of the lesson e.g. by the end of the lesson, students will be able to ” pronounce, identify, put words in sentences, change into passive, compare, answer, use, match, …. etc ” or any verbs that can be observable and measurable in […]
What Every EFL Teacher Ought to Know About Lesson Planning
What is a lesson plan? 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. Essentially the lesson plan sets out what the […]
A Free Printable EFL Lesson Plan Template
All teachers should understand that a lesson plan is not an end but it is a means and indicator. For supervisors, a good written lesson plan indicates that the teacher has enough information about the lesson and he is well mentally prepared to teach it effectively because a lesson plan is like a road map […]
Six Things Must be Included in a Lesson Plan
A lesson plan is like a map that guides you while you are teaching. Planning your lessons beforehand is a must as it is the proof that you know what to do in the classroom. You are not required to write all details in your lesson plan provided that you are expert enough and you […]
A Lesson Plan to Teach the English Novel
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: Read for fun skimming and guessing the meaning of difficult words. Read for scanning and answer some questions on details of the chapter. Answer the questions on the chapter on the textbook. Act the scenes included in the chapter. Teaching aids: Set-book, Class […]
A Lesson Plan to Teach Email Writing.
Email-writing aims ultimately at: Improving social skills ( saying “thank you”, sending an invitation, offering help or support, ………etc. ) Asking for information informally. Exchanging ideas and opinions. Writing about some personal experience. Here is a model for an email writing lesson plan Objectives: At the end of this lesson Ss should be able to: […]
Drills that Must be Prepared for Any Lesson
Once the structure or new language has been presented in the lesson, the teacher gives the class some drills to practice the new materials on focus. There are Three Main Kinds of drills that must be included in any lesson in the following sequence: 1- Controlled drills: They are manipulative drills with the aim […]