Activity 2 Matching aims to lesson summaries Objective: to enable students to select appropriate aims for a lesson
Time: 25 min
Materials: Handout 2
Procedure:
Distribute handout 2 and ask students to match the lesson summaries with the lesson aims listed A-F. There is one extra option which they don’t need to use.
Ask students in pairs discuss their answers.
Check the answers.
Answers: 1C. 2A. 3D. 4B. 5F.
Activity 3 Types of aims Objective: to enable students to differentiate between main aims, subsidiary aims and personal aims
Time: 15 min
Materials: Handout 3
Procedure:
Distribute handout 3 to students and ask them to look at the table and work out the difference between main aims, subsidiary aims and personal aims.
Elicit random answers.
Establish that a main aim describes the most important thing we want to achieve in a lesson or sequence of lessons. For example, teachers want learners to understand and practise using new language; to reinforce or consolidate (i.e.to make stronger) the use of language they already know by giving them further practice; or to revise language they have recently learnt. Subsidiary aims show the language or skills learners must be able to use well in order to achieve the main aim of the lesson. In addition to learning aims for the learners, we may also want to think about our own personal aims as teachers. Personal aims show what we would like to improve or focus on in our own teaching.
Activity 4 Evaluating lesson aims Objective: to enable students to evaluate lesson aims
Time: 25 min
Materials: Handout 4
Procedure:
Put students in groups of 3-4. Distribute handout 4 and ask students to look through the aims and evaluate them answering the questions.
Elicit answers in plenary.
Suggested answers:
Aims 2, 5 and 8 seem to be the most appropriately expressed as they are clear and specific. Aims that are not clear or lack detail:
