This document discusses topic-based teaching in English. Some key benefits of topic-based teaching mentioned include being able to fit topics to individual student groups, varying teaching methods, and making connections between subjects. Examples of potential topics include numbers, colors, animals, birthdays, and families. The document provides examples of lesson plans for topics like fashion, pirates, and busy towns. It also discusses assessing student learning, using topics from books, and potential new topics to explore like movies and music. Overall, the document promotes topic-based teaching as a flexible approach to teaching English.

1. Björg Jónsdóttir
Hofsstaðaskóla

2.  You can find topic that fit your group
 Easy to fit the assignments to the individual
 Easy to vary with teaching methods
 Connection between subjects
 Good with the Multiple Intelligence/Gardner
 You can use it with any age
 Can work without a book or even with a book
 The teacher chooses the topics but the students
can also be involved

3.  Choose the topics – what do you want to teach?
 Are you going to use books as well or only the
topics?
 Find material, Internet, listening
assignments, books, stories, games….
 Try what ever comes to mind, listen to the
students and go for it!

4.  Numbers, colors, weekdays, months
 Body, clothes, weather
 Animals
 Birthday
 Family
 The school –time
 Pirate ship
 Busy town/getting around
 Fairytales

5.  A picture with the vocabulary
 Students learn the frase “she/he is wearing...”
by telling the class what they are wearing
 Then we have a fashion show – everyone says
what they are wearing
 Their pictures is taken
 They write under their picture what they wore

9.  Introduction with a picture, vocabulary and a
song
 Students make a treasure map, draw and write
a decription
 The maps are made “old” with coffee
 The students present their maps and make a
pirate hat using directions in English
 Brainstorming about the world of pirates – then
they make that world
 A message in a bottle??

15.  Some topics are part of the assessment plan
and have a final assignments
 The assignments vary for example writing
assignmetns, presentations and groupwork
 For 5th grade there is a test
 This year the English folder will be graded –
portfolio

16.  New topics; movies and music
 Short topics
 Topic based teaching with very young learners
 Recording the lessons and the students
learning
 Topics based on books or movies
 Station work
 Portfolio

17.  Topic books from the Portfolio books can be
used to make a topic
 Children of the world: Oliver Twist
 Teach what ever you want to teach – just do it
in English

20. www.forlagid.is

21.  Six chapters with topics
 The teacher can teach the book without using
any other materials
 Can also be used to teach topics
 A lot of texts, listening and writing
assignments
 Also some games and some oral assingments
 Frankenstein-the story