Lesson planning is the art of combining a number of different elements into a coherent whole so that a lesson has an identity which students can recognize, work within and react to. Plans are proposals for action rather than scripts to be followed slavishly

1. Presented to : Dr. Khaleel Bataineh .
By : Amani Shahen
Amman Arab University
Department of English Language And Translation
Short-term planning - Lesson plans

2. WHAT DOES SHORT PLANNING - LESSON PLANS
MEAN?
Lesson planning is the art of combining a
number of different elements into a coherent
whole so that a lesson has an identity which
students can recognize, work within and react
to. Plans are proposals for action rather than
scripts to be followed slavishly.

3. Why is lesson planning important?

Being clear on what you want to teach.

Being ready to cope with whatever happens.
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Give your teaching a framework, an overall shape.
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A reminder for the teacher when they get distracted.
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It suggests a level of professionalism and real commitment.

4. What dose pre-planning mean ?
Preplanning is
deciding how to get
something done
before starting on it.

5. such as the language level of the target group.
their educational and cultural background.
their levels of motivation.
their different learning styles.
What are the factors teachers need to take
into consideration before making the lesson
plan?

6. The four main planning elements
Content
Language
 skills
Activities

7. The components of the lesson’s plan
•
The name of the teacher.
•
The mentor teacher (in case of teaching
practice).
•
the date and duration of the lesson.
•
some information about the school and the
profile of the target group.

8. In a lesson teachers have to keep various types of
balance.
Such as :
 the balance of work forms (frontal, group. pair)
 the balance of skills (receptive/productive-oral/written)
 the balance of activities (warm-up. 3 Ps, feedback)
 the balance of stirring and settling activities (after a
competition a writing activity must be planned)

9. A sample lesson plan
Group profile
There are 16 students in the group. They started
learning English at primary school. They enjoy English
lessons and some of them speak at pre-intermediate
level. They have six lessons a week, and they use
English even in the breaks (just for fun)

10. Place
The classroom has a special English atmosphere.
The walls are decorated with the maps of the USA
and the pieces of work compiled by the students.
The furniture is suitable for group work as well as
for pair-work.

11. Main aims
Content aims: The USA and Hungary. To extend
the students cognitive domain, their global
knowledge about American and Hungarian
cultures - increasing students' awareness of the
target culture as well as about their own culture
by introducing facts and behaviour models
characteristic of the two cultures.

12. Language aims
expanding the students vocabulary and
their language awareness. The Past
Simple versus the Present Simple Tenses
Vocabulary: Spots of interest, historical
monuments of Hungary.

13. Thinking skills: metacognitive strategies; centring
leaming
Cognitive skills (e.g. matching, identifying,
drawing conclusions) Social skills: to train
students how to cooperate, how to work in
teams, share responsibility

14. Social skills:
to train students how to cooperate, how to work in
teams, share responsibility.
Materials Handouts / photocopies (charts about
Hungary, task sheets)-CD player and the CD of. Hello
Tourist "Posters and pictures of Hungary (+ Blue-
stick)New Headway Pre-intermediate Student's Book
and Work book.
Source: Sárosdy, Bencze, Poór and Vadnay. 2006. Applied Linguistics I for BA Students in English.