Lesson 12: teaching speaking in primary level pupils: monologue and dialogue questions to be discussed

Materials and equipment

All things which are used by teachers and students in teaching process are called materials and equipment. Here we can list text-books, dictionaries, newspapers, magazines, chalk, blackboard, charts, schemes, pictures, cards, etc. Technical equipment includes computers, tape recorder, cameras, video recorders, DVD players, TV, projectors, Internet sources, etc. it is important to know how and when to use this or that teaching material.

Procedures

A foreign language lesson should consist of the following steps:

1) Organization moment – when a teacher notes presence of students, asks the date, day, weather, and other question to open the lesson – usually up to 5 minutes

2) Warming up – any game or revision activity which loads students with a new energy and readiness for a lesson – 5-10 minutes. As the class begins, give students a broad outline of the day’s goals and activities so they know what to expect. Help them focus by eliciting their existing knowledge of the day’s topics.

Use discussion or homework review to elicit knowledge related to the grammar and language use points to be covered

Use comparison with the native language to elicit strategies that students may already be using. Use discussion of what students do and/or like to do to elicit their knowledge of the topic they will address in communication activities

3) Checking home task – individual or frontal – 10-15 minutes.

4) Explaining new material - a teacher explains new grammar rule or topic with the help of board, charts, pictures or other techniques - 15-20 minutes

5) Practice of new material– takes place with the help of text-books, exercises, tasks, questions, debates, etc. – 15-20 minutes

6) Extra class activity - independent work of students when the can demonstrate their integrated skills. For example, a short presentation, dialogue, group work or crossword, game or pair works. - 10-15 minutes

7) Evaluation – evaluation need to be a separate part of a lesson when a teacher concludes the results of students’ success by giving the marks. Evaluation can be oral or in written form and should be just. Motivation is also very important in evaluation as it inspires students for better learning – up to 5 minutes

8) Home task assessment – a teacher should explain home task, write it on the board. The volume of home task depends on the age, level of students and period of time between this lesson and the next one - 2-3 minutes

9) End of the lesson – a teacher and students say ‘good bye’ to each other and the lesson is over.