This lesson plan and set of slides were presented as part of the third course in the second 2021 cohort of LCC's TESOL Diploma program on teaching grammar. You can find my first lesson plan on teaching speaking and listening in this post. Our latest unit was on creating lessons on grammar; the presentation portion was focused on conducting oral drills.
The grammar structure I was assigned was "if I do..." and "if I did..." (otherwise known as the first and second conditional respectively). I was given sample rules and written exercises from a grammar book and encouraged to pick a certain portion of the target grammar structure as the focus of my lesson objective.
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The lesson plan includes: a script for the presentation, a written exercise (with answer key), an oral activity/grammar game, and a free communicative activity (with handout).
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For these slides I used a presentation template provided by Slidesgo, which includes icons from Flaticon and Freepik. The lesson plan and slides were built in Google Drive using Google Docs and Google Slides. The loyalty card image was created in Affinity Designer; the written exercise and Click Clack Toe pages were designed with Affinity Publisher.
Finally, below is my self-reflection.
Good and/or Effective:
- Speed is better!
- I think my first drill went pretty smoothly.
- I think I did a good job keeping most slides uncrowded and with big, colourful visuals.
- I’m not sure if people noticed the colour coding between “if I do”/”if I did” but I think it made the slides more visually consistent overall
To Be Improved:
- I used embedded questions--simplify.
- Students had trouble with my attempt to create the need for the Target Grammar Structure, especially the first time.
- Instructor commented: cultural context for lotteries and loyalty cards may confuse students; suggested weather instead.
- I meant for students to do the drill together all at once (as a chorus) but that doesn’t seem to work too well online. I’ll name students more next time.
- Ran out of time near the end with the rules.