Ask students after each lesson they have during the week to think of the lesson aims and take notes. Ask them to bring their notes to discuss in the next lesson.
PLANNING FOR DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS Handout 1Comments from teachers Think about these comments from teachers. To what extent do you agree with the following statements? Why?
I often discover what my aims are while I am teaching the lesson. Sometimes I only find out when the lesson is over.
Learners don’t want to know about aims. They just want to get on with the lesson.
A lesson without an aim is like a boat without a rudder or a traveller without a map: there's very little chance you'll get to your destination because you don't even know what it is!
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Handout 2 Matching aims to lesson summaries Match the lesson summaries with the lesson aims listed A-H. There is one extra option which you do not need to use.
Lesson summaries Learners put jumbled sections of a text in order. The teacher focuses on conjunctions, time expressions, pronouns, etc. Learners make notes on a similar topic, and then they produce a similar text.
Learners look at a town map and discuss the best route from the station to a hotel, and then they listen to a conversation on cassette and compare their route with the one on the cassette.
In pairs, learners read different texts about soldiers’ duties, and then they exchange information about them. Pairs work together to complete lists of rules for soldiers, using must, should, doesn’t/don’t have to.
Learners brainstorm vocabulary and ideas on the topic, and then in groups they draft the text for a leaflet to advertise their town to tourists. Groups then exchange texts to make corrections and/or suggest improvements.
Learners match words with pictures, and build up word maps, which they compare and develop. Then they work together to produce entries for a class dictionary.