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Timestamp for how to plan an ESL speaking lesson:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Choose a focus
0:47 Set the context
1:13 Focus on the meaning
1:40 Forums
2:07 Focus on pronunciation
2:18 Controlled practice
2:35 Freer practice
2:47 Want more tips? Check out my book: 101 ESL Activities for Teenagers and Adults
2:54 Homework or Review
3:16 Outro

Transcript for how to plan an ESL lesson:

Today I'm going to talk about how to plan an ESL lesson. So this is a very common question that teachers have. You might have to do a demo class or an interview. You might have to prepare for something like the Celta or the Delta course and of course, you just want to prepare great lessons for your students.

First of all, choose a focus. Something like speaking or reading isn't a focus. It's not great because it's just not detailed enough and it's a little bit fuzzy around the edges. What actually are students practicing? I'm not sure. So it's better to choose, for example, a specific grammar or vocabulary point that students can work on.

So after you've done that, be sure to set the context. Setting the context can be as simple as talking to your partner for one minute about what your favorite food is and maybe you're talking about food that day. Or, it can be something, maybe you're talking about memories from the past using the simple past, so it can just be something like, just tell your partner a fun memory from high school. Just a very quick warm-up thing.

The second thing you can do is focus on meaning. Whenever you teach language to students, they have to know a context, a situation in which they can use that language. For example, if students are learning about the simple past, in your context is memories.

The third thing to do is focus on forms. So that gets into the nitty-gritty details of, for example, the simple past. I ate pizza. Ate is an irregular past tense verb. Or, I went somewhere.

The next thing is to focus on pronunciation. We want students to be able to use this language when speaking as well so do a little piece on pronunciation.

After that, the next step is to do some controlled practice. If you're using a textbook, a textbook is often the best way to do this. It'll often have little practice exercises in there for your students to do. I always get my students to compare first with a partner and then we come together as a class and just quickly check the answers.

The next step in an ESL lesson is to do freer practice. This is where I get creative and I come up with some fun games or activities that students can do. If you need some ideas for that, check out one of my books 101 ESL Activities for Teenagers and Adults.

The last step in planning an ESL lesson is homework or review in the next class. It's really up to you what you do and if you want to do this but I generally like to review things because I think if you only cover something once, it's a little bit hard for students to get a grasp on it and they'll actually understand it a lot better if you go back over it again, and again, and again, and again.

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