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3 Creative Zoom Lesson Plans for Children - TEFL Blog
Thu, 09 Feb 2023 Hoàng Minh Huy
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3 Creative Zoom Lesson Plans for Children
Due to the pandemic, distance learning has replaced traditional classroom instruction worldwide. Teachers in Hong Kong are attempting to find ways to instruct their students while at home under quarantine. To help you stay inspired when instructing online, I'm going to share some enjoyable games and activities to play with kids using Zoom in this post. If you've never used Zoom, you must give it a try with your students; you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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Show and tell
Draw and guess
Board game
Conclusion
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3 Apps for Digital ESL Lesson Plans - TEFL Blog
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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3 Apps for Digital ESL Lesson Plans
Being an ESL teacher is not an easy task, especially if you work as a freelancer TEFL teacher online. In this case, you have to be even more organized to provide better services to your students. This blog post offers you 3 apps for digital ESL lesson plans that will save you a lot of time.
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Why do you need a digital lesson planner?
Evernote
Some more essential features will work accurately for your digital ESL lesson plans:
Pricing
Trello
Pricing
Notion
Pricing
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Lesson Planning - Part 1 - Why do we plan lessons? - TEFL Blog
Sun, 08 May 2022 Federico Riva
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Lesson Planning - Part 1 - Why do we plan lessons?
In this blog post, we are going to have a look at some of the reasons why we plan lessons. We suggest there are three main reasons why we need to plan our lessons.
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First and foremost perhaps, is that it's going to create a logical sequence for our lessons. If we didn't have a lesson plan it is quite possible that we could go all over the place and it would become confusing for the students. By having this plan, what we've created is a structure that... [Read more]
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PDF Copy for TEFL TESOL Certificate
As soon as you have completed your TEFL course your high-quality certificate will be put in the post and sent to wherever in the world you want it. However, if you are in a real rush and you don't want to wait for the postman to arrive, we can also send you an instant copy in PDF format via email. This is a handy option for anyone who needs to prove they have completed the course to an employer or government office before the original certificate arrives.
As our certificates are sent to all corners of the globe it is not always easy to predict how long each postal delivery will take. If you think you might need your certificate soon after finishing your training, simply let us know and we will immediately send out an electronic copy. And don't... [Read more]
Lesson plan for an 80-minute class - TEFL Blog
Wed, 08 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Lesson plan for an 80-minute class
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Solmaz F. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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Engage Stage
Study Stage
Activate Stage
Engage Stage
Study Stage
Activate Stage
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Study Stage
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Lesson Planning - Part 1 - Why do we plan lessons?
Hello. This presentation is going to cover this section on lesson planning and what we're going to do is to have a look as to why we go about planning a lesson, what do we actually put in it? We'll create an empty lesson plan pro-forma and then having done that what we'll do is to fill in that lesson plan for a particular teaching point. So, our starting position is going to be: "Why do we plan lessons at all?" There are a number of reasons why we need to plan a lesson. The first and foremost perhaps is that it's going to create a logical sequence for our lessons. If we didn't have a lesson plan, it is quite possible that we could go all over the place and it would become confusing for the students. By having this plan, what... [Read more]
Top Tips for Designing an Effective Lesson Plan - TEFL Blog
Fri, 27 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Top Tips for Designing an Effective Lesson Plan
Teachers who want to have good performance in class should have good lesson planning. Teachers should answer these questions before preparing lesson planning: what am I teaching? Whom am I teaching? How will I teach? And how will I know if the students understand?
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Reasons to plan
Lesson Components
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Reasons to plan
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A Sample ESA Lesson Plan for English Teaching - TEFL Blog
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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A Sample ESA Lesson Plan for English Teaching
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Thom P. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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First Step
Second Step
Grammar (15 minutes)
a/an
the
no article
Pronunciation (15 minutes)
Third Step
Cool Down (5 minutes)
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First Step
Lesson Objectives: Students will practice recognizing homophones and practice the correct, indefinite, and zero articles.Summary of tasks/actionsWarm-Up: Vocabulary Review (10 minutes)
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Example Lesson Plan for a Business English Class - TEFL Blog
Thu, 25 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Example Lesson Plan for a Business English Class
Knowing an additional language goes beyond the ability to speak it. It connects people, helps in understanding different cultures and has also been identified as a boost to brain function and increase intelligence.
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Present Situation
Example Lesson Plan
Lesson: Receptive Skills
Engage and Study Phase:
Activate Phase:
Expected end result:
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Present Situation
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Top Strategies for Writing a Precise Lesson Plan - TEFL Blog
Wed, 04 Dec 2019 Federico Riva
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Top Strategies for Writing a Precise Lesson Plan
The Importance of lesson planning cannot be overemphasized, as the teachers need to map out a plan of what the learners need to learn and how it will be done to ensure effective teaching and learning at a particular period during classes. Designing appropriate learning activities and developing strategies to obtain feedback on learners, is one of the importance of lesson planning. A well-constructed lesson plan for each lesson allows the teacher to teach with more confidence and also helps maximize the chances of having a meaningful and well-organized learning experience in all intent and purpose.
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A successful lesson plan must address the following components:
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The Art of Preparing Working Lesson Plans - TEFL Blog
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Art of Preparing Working Lesson Plans
Doing up lesson plans for my up and coming TEFL classes is something that I am quite excited about. I suppose it is because I see an opportunity for creativity and that gets my juices flowing. I love the engage, study and activate model that was taught to us, both in the TEFL course itself as well as in this course on teaching business English lessons to adults. I would like to share some ideas that I have reaped from this course on how I would prepare a lesson plan for the to engage, study and activate methodology.
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Engagement
Giving New Information
Applying New Information on Practice
Points to Remember
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Top Tips For Creating An EFL Lesson Plan For Young Learners - TEFL Blog
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 Ramon Perez
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Top Tips For Creating An EFL Lesson Plan For Young Learners
With each passing day, we learn something new. We build upon the previously attained knowledge and expand our understanding of various subjects. As teachers, we have the responsibility of expanding our students' knowledge and abilities. As much as we would like to provide fun and innovative ways to present the information, it can be difficult to keep it fresh on a daily basis.
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WHAT IS A LESSON PLAN?
WHAT
WHEN
HOW
WHERE
WHY
WHAT DOES A LESSON PLAN CONSIST OF?
WARM-UP
REVIEW
NEW SUBJECT
GAME
WORKSHEET
FINAL TIPS
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The Perfect Lesson Plan for an Effective Classroom Routine - TEFL Blog
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Perfect Lesson Plan for an Effective Classroom Routine
It has often been said that ships cannot navigate at nights without a lighthouse; In the same way, an instructor of learning will find it difficult to operate without a lesson plan. The lesson plan can be described as the teachers' GPS. What then is a lesson plan? The lesson plan is a useful or structured guide that outlines a step by step approach of delivering a subject matter or content. A lesson plan is made up of some key components like objectives, procedures, and assessments. The actual process of writing the plan is lesson planning. Lesson planning plays a crucial role in the teaching-learning situation.
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A Sample Lesson Plan For a 2nd Grade Classroom - TEFL Blog
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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A Sample Lesson Plan For a 2nd Grade Classroom
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Trang V. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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Preparation
PROCEDURE
Engagement
Study
STAGE 2- Attending To Form (20')
Activate
STAGE 3- Practicing And Enjoying Activities (20')
STAGE 4- Review Vocabulary With Song (15')
STAGE 5- Developing Strategies For Vocabulary (25')
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Accuracy and Fluency ActivitiesNowadays, how to communicate successfully in the English language has become more significant than reading and writing. For most people, the importance of producing messages effectively and to negotiate meaning is essential. People communicate for various reasons. They want to listen to something, they are interested in what is being said, they want to say something and/ or they have some communicative purposes. It is the teacher?s... [Read more]
Top Online Lesson Plan Resources for New and Advanced Teachers - TEFL Blog
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 Mark Crocker
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Top Online Lesson Plan Resources for New and Advanced Teachers
For many new and experienced EFL teachers, one of the most challenging aspects of their career is coming up with lesson plans that are both engaging and effective. Even if your employer provides a specific textbook to follow as a curriculum, you will often find that this can be rather dull for the students unless you spice things up by adding in some fun and original ideas from an outside source. By searching online you will find a huge amount of sites offering all manner of resources of varying quality and relevance. To save you the hassle of searching through them all, we have listed our 5 favorite websites that you can use to find quality lesson plans free of charge.
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A Sample Lesson Plan for a Pre-Intermediate EFL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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A Sample Lesson Plan for a Pre-Intermediate EFL Classroom
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Medine A. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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Anticipated problems for students:
Anticipated problems for the teacher:
Phase Procedure Timing Interaction
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
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Functions of a Lesson Plan - TEFL Blog
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Functions of a Lesson Plan
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Meiheriguli Y. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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Foundation
Teaching tasks
Good Lesson Plan Check-list
Lesson plan and Unit plans
Criteria of a Unit plan:
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Foundation
First of all, we must understand that the lesson plan is the most important foundation in English teaching. With a sound curriculum plan, perfect teaching can be carried out. Set out the purpose of teaching in the course plan:
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Teaching tasks
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A Sample ESA Lesson Plan - TEFL Blog
Thu, 09 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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A Sample ESA Lesson Plan
Teacher: Hoang Thi Thanh Hue Observer: N/ A Date and time: 19/09/19Class level: Beginner Room: 201 Expected number of student: 10
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Learner objectives:
Personal aims:
1. Engage phase (5 mins), interaction (T-S)
2. Study phase (35 mins)
3. Activate 1 phase (10 mins, T - S)
4. Activate 2 phase (10 mins, S - S)
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Language point:
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Lesson Planning - Part 4 - Lesson Plan Example
Okay, so we're going to use this pro-forma as our lesson plan and we're going to fill one out as though we were planning for an actual lesson. So, we start off with some basic information about the class. So, the name of the teacher, date and time and the class level. In this particular case, our class is going to be an elementary class and the room will be room 3. Having looked through the registers we see that the expected number of students for this particular class is going to be 10. This will help us in creating our worksheet copies. The context of the lesson for this class is going to be present continuous tense and it may well be the first time that this particular level of class has been introduced to this tense. So, our focus... [Read more]
A Sample Lesson Plan for Elementary and Pre-Intermediate Level Students - TEFL Blog
Wed, 22 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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A Sample Lesson Plan for Elementary and Pre-Intermediate Level Students
Lesson planning is an essential part of your teaching practice. Moreover, it is vital to be creative all the time. This sample lesson plan will help you to set a perfect lesson for beginners or lower-intermediate students.
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Brainstorming ideas
Preparing the lesson
Target dialog 1
Additional materials
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A Patchwork Example Lesson Plan For Teaching Productive and Receptive Skills - TEFL Blog
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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A Patchwork Example Lesson Plan For Teaching Productive and Receptive Skills
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Abraham F. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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Lesson Materials
Grouping
Activate Part 1
Elicitation Ideas
Activate Part 2
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A Sample Lesson Plan for Students with a Short Attention Span - TEFL Blog
Tue, 28 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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A Sample Lesson Plan for Students with a Short Attention Span
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Anna D. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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General recommendations
Preparation and Class Routine
Here's an example of a lesson plan:
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Preparation and Class Routine
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How do I make a good TEFL lesson plan? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
How do I make a good TEFL lesson plan?
The rationale behind planning TEFL lessons is a crucial aspect to consider because it shapes the content of our lesson plans. We plan lessons for several reasons such as:
i) To provide a structure to our lessons
ii) To provide a record of what has been taught
iii) To easily cross reference against any syllabus requirements of the course being taught
The latter two points aid in ensuring we meet all the course requirements by providing a comprehensive record of lessons conducted. The first point, providing structure, is arguably the most crucial as it maps out the expected course of the lesson. Before delving into an actual plan, we should ponder on the kind of information we need to document in the plan.
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Lesson Planning - Part 5 - Lesson Plan Procedure - Engage
So, now we're going to fill the actual procedure of the lesson plan out itself. We mentioned at the start, the first thing we do, is to get some general information about the class that we'll be teaching and then, in order for someone to be able to cover our lesson, we need to present enough information in our lesson plan that they can actually carry it out. What I'm going to do is for each stage of the lesson, I'll indicate what I'm going to do in the lesson and then, we'll cut away from that to have a look to see how that will actually be achieved. So, our lesson is going to be based on a 45-minute lesson and the first phase is going to be the engage phase and it's going to be a straight arrow ESA lesson. I'm going to... [Read more]
Where can I get free TEFL lesson plans? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Where can I get free TEFL lesson plans?
Having a meticulously constructed lesson plan is an essential tool for any educator. It provides a roadmap, without which the trajectory of a lesson can go astray rapidly. Although as you amass experience, you may find that you don't need to invest as much time in detailed planning, in the early days of your teaching career, a robust plan can make the difference between a smooth, successful class and a chaotic one. A comprehensive lesson plan enables you to articulate your learning objectives, organize your time efficiently, prepare the required materials and equipment, and anticipate potential issues along with their solutions. A well-prepared plan serves as your guide, ensuring you navigate each phase of the lesson without undue stress or wasted... [Read more]
Where can I get free TEFL lesson plans? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Where can I get free TEFL lesson plans?
For educators in the TEFL field, having a structured lesson plan is a key to successful teaching. While some prefer crafting their own, others benefit from readily available online resources. Leveraging free online resources not only saves time but also offers insights into diverse teaching strategies. If you are looking for free TEFL lesson plans, there are numerous online platforms worth exploring. Here is a curated list of recommended sites where you can access these invaluable resources:
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Where can I get free TEFL lesson plans?
UsingEnglish.com
TEFL.NET
The British Council
Lanternfish ESL
ThoughtCo
BusyTeacher
English Is a Piece of Cake
The Internet TESL Journal
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Online English Expert
Off2Class
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Parts Of a Good Lesson Plan - TEFL Blog
Tue, 05 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Parts Of a Good Lesson Plan
Planning a lesson is of key importance to a teacher because it prepares him/her to manage learner behavior and create the perfect learning environment for its students. During the lesson planning phase, a teacher decides upon the goals, activities, resources, timing, grouping and other aspects of a lesson (Richards & Renandya, 2002).
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What is a Lesson Plan For?
Stages
Lesson Planning Approaches
Parts of an Effective Lesson Plan
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Guidelines to Write a Lesson Plan - TEFL Blog
Thu, 30 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Guidelines to Write a Lesson Plan
A Lesson plan has many important attributes which most definitely will assist the teacher in teaching (even though there have been theories about lesson planning arguing that it might not be flexible for the students). There is no doubt that coming to class prepared is essential whether with a lesson plan or without. It is very helpful for inexperienced teachers especially those who may lack direction.
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Reasons to Write a Plan
General Suggestions
What to Include
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The Principles of Creating Lesson Plans to Achieve Better Results - TEFL Blog
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Principles of Creating Lesson Plans to Achieve Better Results
When I first started as an EFL teacher two years ago, my senior colleagues would often advise me to create a lesson plan well in advance of an upcoming lesson. Having had no formal teaching experience back then, it surprised me because I assumed that simply creating lesson materials for students was sufficient. I did not think that lesson plans were necessary because when I was a student, I had never seen any of my teachers referring to them on the job. It seemed to me that teachers were natural improvisers and could deliver lessons without any referenced document.
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