Pamela’s Box

What is a lesson plan?

 I like the description of lesson plan in the handout. “If you imagine a lesson is like a journey, then the lesson plan is the map. It shows you whwere you start, where you finish and the route to take to get there.” That’s much funnier than giving us the account, I can’t find a better answer or my own word after reading that paragraph!

What should go into an English language lesson?

 According the handout, we can find there are three elements should be ketp in tha planner’s mind. Each of them are Engage, Study and Activate. I think taht is also the order between three of them. We have to get the students interest in the class fisrt, then foucus on the aspect of the language, finally to make a chance for them to produce thier use of Emglish, and I extremely agree the following words “In an activate stage the students are given tasks which require them to use not only the language they are studying that day, but also other language that they have learnt.” That reminds me of my conversation class of Japanese, we always had an assignment of role play after one theme had been discussed that day. Everytime when we prepared the assignment we did use not only the language we studied that day, but also other language that we had learnt. So I believe that the role paly is one of the most active way to examine student’s learning.

Why is planning important?

 There is another question extends from this, “Do you need to plan if you have a course book?” The answer is definitely “Yes!” The reason is based on the handout, since a lesson plan is like a map, let’s consider a course book as a guide book which contains much useful information,  it just depends on the adaptability and requiremaent for each different tourist group. Then back to the original queation, with the same opinion, planning brings more flexibility and assurance, that’s why it is needed. 

What are principles of planning?

 Finally, how sohould the planning be? As above, first of all, we must know where we are going and how, this refers to aim, then we have to make our student be interested in what they are going to learn, so we need to add much variety to our plan, try to have their attentions. What’s more? “Expect the unexpected” We plan for the lesson but that doesn’t mean we must, or we can always follow through on it, because it is impossible for us to foresee what will happen during the class. All we can do is  keeping the flexibility and always prepare the Plan B in our mind.