Teaching English Lesson Plans
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Ruth Said:
I am teaching english for the first time, could someone please help me some sample lesson plans?We Answered:
I had the best seventh grade English teacher. He taught us so much without us even realizing that we were learning anything. It was great.The first class he taught us about perspective. He let us look around his classroom for a minute. Then, he told us to either stand on top of our chair, or sit down on the floor. He told us to look around the room now and think about how different the room looked from that angle. Then he went on to tell us about perspective and what it means.
We did a unit on mysteries. We read three Sherlock Holmes stories, two of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories, and saw two movies-- "Young Sherlock Holmes" and "Clue". We had to write four essay-- One on each of Poe's stories, one for Sherlock Holmes, and one for Clue. It was good practice for writing essays, and we learned a lot about the outline of a mystery. After this, we partnered up and wrote our own mysteries. The super-detective I created became a major character of mine in stories I wrote afterwords.
When we were learning about the outline of an essay, he brought in a tape of commercials, which he played for us. We had to point out the clincher, the introduction, the conclusion, and all those things in each commercial. We separated the good commercials from the bad ones, and then wrote our own commercials for a sports drink we made up.
When we were learning about elements of literature, he seperated us into five groups and each group had to research a certain element, and then teach the class about it in a fun, creative way.
After reading the book "Tangerine", we were separated into groups again and made newspapers that dealt with issues in the story. Each newspaper had a weather report, a few editorials, a first page news story, a sports page, and a comic or cartoon.
When we read "Treasure Island", we did something similar to the project we did with plot, except this time we were researching either treasure, modern pirates, historical pirates, or ships. My group researched treasure, and we finished our presentation with a game of Jeopardy, with a treasure map style board.
The class was everybody's favorite class, I think. Throughout the year, we had a few major projects that lasted a few weeks, but in between we just had short lessons, vocabulary quizzes, spelling tests, and notes on grammar.
He didn't do this with our class because we were the Honors class and he trusted us, but with the regular classes, he gave occasional "D.I.R.T." quizes-- surprise "Did I Read This" quizes with a few questions about the novel the class was reading.
He was asking me about an idea he had for a new unit for his next class-- He was going to do this whole unit on fairy tales and use that to teach the class about plot, and read a novel related to the topic as they did that.
By the age of 13, most kids like to read in different ways, so leave it up to the class if they want to read in class or not. Kids like me liked to read ahead a lot, so we preferred to read at home, but others had a lot of questions to ask, so they liked to sit and read in class.
Also, if a story you're reading is going to have scary parts, warn the class about it. A few friends of mine had nightmares about "Murder in the Rue Morgue" when we read the beginning, so after that, our teacher let them leave the room while he was reading the gorey parts.
Good luck! If you would like to know more about what my English teacher taught us, just email me. =)
Lester Said:
Where can I find lesson plans to teach English as a second language to adults?We Answered:
try skillsworkshop.org.Search the level you are teaching at (adult core curriculum). Some very useful ideas.
Good luck
Maurice Said:
I am an education major in college and I have to make a lesson plan, I am teaching an English lesson.....?We Answered:
Do a search on lesson plans on the computer, there are a lot of good sites and they offer ideas and even print outs. They are also broken down into age groups.If you want to make a puzzle , go to puzzlemaker.com. You can make crossword puzzles, word searches and others. You just type the words and it does the rest for you.
Stephen Said:
Does anyone know where i can find proper English lesson plans? I'm studying teaching and need a lesson plan.We Answered:
If you are studying to become a teacher, the idea is for YOU to develop lesson plans, NOT copy them from another source. As a teacher with 40 years' experience, let me tell you that I NEVER found a lesson plan that worked for me unless I developed it myself. YOU need to include YOUR goals and objectives and how YOU plan to achieve them, not those of another unknown person. Do it yourself and be happy with the results!!Chow!!
Joan Said:
Where can i find good lesson plans for Teaching English as a Foreign Language for intermediate students?We Answered:
English, Learning.http://www.englishforums.com/
http://www.edufind.com/index.cfm
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/ind…
http://www.word2word.com/
http://www.freelang.net/
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/eli.resources
http://www.englishpage.com/
http://www.usingenglish.com/
http://www.online-education.net/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learni…
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
http://www.english-at-home.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
http://www.oup.com/elt/select?url=/eltne…
Good luck.
Kevin, Liverpool, England.
French.
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/tous.php
http://www.france-pub.com/french/
Languages other than English.
http://www.word2word.com/
http://www.freelang.net/
http://www.languageguide.org/
http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/index.html
Free Online Language Translator
http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_se…
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
http://www.transparent.com/
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
http://www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/re…
http://www.freetranslation.com/
Good luck.
Kevin, Liverpool, England.
How to Do A Language Exchange
You should practice using the Cormier method, a language exchange method that has been proven for over 3 years at the C.E.L.M. school in Montreal, Canada.
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/
Good luck.
Kevin, Liverpool, England.
Gerald Said:
HELP! Teaching English need lesson plan ideas.?We Answered:
You need to learn the grammar of your own language asap. Read about the tense system, the comparison degrees of the adjectives and the adverbs, the noun (countable/uncountable - very important) and the numerals. The better you know what they are and how they form, the more confident you'll be when you teach them.When I want to divide the students into groups according to their linguistic competence, I start asking them questions in Present Continuous and then I see how far they can go. In your case, I believe that you are not familiar with the tenses (their names and how they're formed; I am sure that you know how to use them), so I have another solution for you: show them a drawing/picture in which a lot of things are happening (like in a park or at a party, where different people are doing different things) and ask them to describe what they see. You can ask them questions about the age of the people in the picture, the way they are dressed, what profession do they think they have etc.
In as far as the "spa language" is concerned, you have to do some research and find out words related to working at a spa. It is not difficult at all to find all those things by yourself and it will build self confidence.