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At first, teaching English sounds pretty straightforward. You know how to
speak English. So teaching English must just be a matter of standing in
front of the class and, well… teaching the students English. Introducing
them to some new words. Correcting their grammar. And that’s all there is
to it! Right?
Not exactly. The first time new teachers sit down to plan a lesson or stand
up to teach one, they suddenly feel overwhelmed. There’s so much you
can cover; where do you even start? How do you choose and order your
activities? How do you know what will work and what won’t? How do you
find enough material to fill your full 60-minute class… or how do you
narrow down your material so you don’t run overtime?
Here’s the one thing that basically answers all of
the questions above and will completely
revolutionize the way you approach teaching:
lesson frameworks.
What are lesson frameworks?
A lesson framework is basically a set pattern of
stages for you to follow in your lesson. Different
types of lessons have different frameworks. Each
framework is essentially an outline; it informs You don’t have to feel lost! A lesson framework is like a
what kind of activity to start with, then what kind map you can follow to a successful lesson.
of activity to do next, and then how to progress
from there- all depending on the type of lesson
you want to teach.
Wait- what are lesson “types?”
Right. Let’s back up for a moment. The first thing to be
aware of is that, while grammar and vocabulary are a big
part of teaching English, there are other aspects of
English students need to practice, too. Students also
need help developing their reading and listening
English lessons aren’t exclusively about comprehension skills as well as their speaking and
grammar and vocabulary. Students also need writing skills. Building fluency in English requires a focus
opportunities to practice skills like reading on all of these different aspects of the language.
comprehension.
So these seven different aspects of language:
• Reading
• Listening
• Writing
• Speaking
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Functional Language
are the seven different lesson types.
From there, we can divide the lesson types into two main categories:
SKILLS and SYSTEMS
The language SKILLS are reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
These skills can be further divided into two subcategories:
Receptive skills: reading and listening (these involve receiving language)
Productive skills: speaking and writing (these involve producing language)
The language SYSTEMS are vocabulary, grammar, and functional
language.
The difference between skills and systems is that the four skills are things
you can learn how to do. Reading, writing, speaking, listening—these are
verbs, things you can actively do. You learn how to read, you learn how to
write…. but you never learn how to grammar. Systems, on the other hand,
are just sets of rules. Students either know a certain verb tense or
vocabulary word… or they don’t. Grammaring isn’t something they can
actively do- they just need to learn and memorize grammatical structures
and vocabulary words.
So this brings us back to the idea of
frameworks. Once you’ve decided what
type of lesson you’d like to teach, the
“
The difference between skills
appropriate lesson framework then and systems is that the four
provides you with an outline of how to go skills are things you can learn
about teaching it. HOW to do. Systems, on the
other hand, are just sets of
rules.
Common Lesson Frameworks
While there are other structures you can use to teach a lesson, depending
on your methodology and techniques, here are the six most common
types of frameworks you’ll want to learn. If executed well, these are pretty
much guaranteed to be effective.
• Receptive Skills (reading or listening) Lesson Framework
• Speaking Lesson Framework
• Writing Lesson Framework
• Systems (grammar, vocabulary, or functional language) Lesson
Framework 1: Situational Presentation
• Systems Lesson Framework 2: Test-Teach-Test Presentation
• Systems Lesson Framework 3: Text-Based Presentation
As we’ve said, each framework has a set structure of stages for you to
follow in the lesson. Let’s take a look at a test-teach-test systems lesson
framework as an example:
Test-Teach-Test Framework (for Systems)
If you aren’t terribly familiar with lesson types or frameworks yet, the table
above probably still doesn’t make much sense. For now, the thing to
understand is that each of the above stages contains one full activity (like
a worksheet students do or a discussion they have in pairs) in the lesson.
You can use this same structure for any grammar, vocabulary, or functional
language lesson you’re teaching- you just slot in different activities for
each stage (that achieve the same stage aim), depending on what
particular language item you’re teaching. If you’re interested in learning
more about what each of these stages mean, we can help! We recently
did a free webinar workshop all about how to teach grammar using a test-
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And stay tuned! We’ll be adding more blog posts here about different
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Amira Mesheri 7 months ago · 0 Likes
thank you that was clear and neat
English Grammar: what
How to Teach Grammar: Test-Teach-Test (/blog/2019/7/14/how-to-teach-grammar-test-teach-test)
do native speakers
know?
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