“Teachers may wonder “which way they ought to go” before...

“Teachers may wonder “which way they ought to go” before they enter a classroom. This usually means that teachers need to plan what they want to do in their classrooms. So, lesson planning involves decisions about the pedagogical dimensions of the lesson. But another important aspect of a lesson concerns the management of learners during the lesson. This includes eliciting students” attention, maintaining their engagement in the lesson, and organizing them into pairs or groups.” (Farrell, 2002, p.30)

After reading about the importance of lesson planning, match the CORRECT information to the number in the following Lesson Plan.

( )1. Reading materials - article from a book on sports

2. Television

3. Whiteboard

( ) To teach the students how to skim for main idea of the passage - identify key words.

( ) Students have learned how to locate information by reading and finding the main sentence of each paragraph.

( ) Opening:

Introduction on the topic sports. T activates schema for sport.

T asks Ss to help him/her write down as many different kinds of sport on the whiteboard within 3 minutes.

( ) Listen

Ss call out the answer to the question as the T writes the answers on the board.

( ) Arouse interest. Activate schema for sport

( )T ↔ Ss

Choose the CORRECT sequence.

FARRELL, T. S. C. Lesson Planning In: RICHARDS, J. C. & RENANDYA. W.A. Methodology in Language Teaching: an Anthology of Current Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002. Chapter 3 - pages 30-39.