Lesson Plan and Game for Brain Storming

Ask yourself: Where are your students going? How are they going to get there? What will they do when they arrive? * For each lesson ask yourself: What do you want your students to be able to do at the end of the lesson? * How will the students do this – what type of activity/ies is/are required? * What skills are you going to practice – reading, speaking, listening or writing or will you plan an integrated lesson where all the skills are practiced? * Next consider what your students already know and what ‘new’ concepts they will have to master. * Next think about how you will do this – what materials, books, pictures and other resources will you need. Write these on the lesson plan. * Next write a step-by-step guide to carry out the lesson plan. * Step One: an introduction – how will you introduce the ideas and objectives of this lesson? How will you grab the student’s attention? How can you tie this lesson in with previous lessons ie: review some essential vocab or grammar. What will be expected of the students? * Step Two: The Main Activity - (the main focus) How will you achieve this – what skills will the students practice? What type of activity? Vary it from the lesson before. * Step Three: How will you give feedback to the students and correct misunderstandings/errors? * Step Four: What follow up activities in next lessons can you plan so students can practice the information in today’s class? (This can be added to at the end of the lesson.) * Step Five: Evaluation – not just for the students but for you and your lesson plan – What went well? What could be improved? What would you change next time? * Writing good lesson plans take time. But they are helpful for reference for yourself, your students and other teachers. BINGO! Here’s a simple game to play with your students to review vocabulary and spelling based on a topic. It requires very little preparation. * Ask your students to think of six (eight/ten etc) words from the topic you want to review. * The students must write them in their notebook. * The teacher must have a list of words related to that topic too. * The teacher then calls out words on his/her list one by one. * If the student has the word then he/she can put a tick next to it. * To make the game more challenging the teacher could call out the word in Indonesian and the students have to look for their words in English. * The first student to tick all six (eight/ten etc) words on their list shouts “Bingo” The student must read out their words so everyone can check if they are correct. Bingo!