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What makes a good lesson

An effective lesson is characterized by clear aims, staging, and meaning, ensuring students understand and practice new language. It incorporates a humanistic approach, varied pace, activities, interactions, and skills to engage different learning styles and meet students' needs. Additionally, lessons should provide clear instructions, flexibility, and a bridge to further self-study.

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What makes a good lesson

An effective lesson is characterized by clear aims, staging, and meaning, ensuring students understand and practice new language. It incorporates a humanistic approach, varied pace, activities, interactions, and skills to engage different learning styles and meet students' needs. Additionally, lessons should provide clear instructions, flexibility, and a bridge to further self-study.

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What makes an effective

lesson?
1. Clarity of aims: the teacher knows exactly what s/he wants the
students to be able to do in the lesson, and why.

2. Clarity of staging: the stages of the lesson are in an appropriate order.


E.g., the teacher ensures that students understand new language before
asking them to use it.

3. Clarity of meaning. New language is clarified, and the teacher checks


to make sure that the students understand it.

4. Maximum opportunity for practice. The students need to practice


English, not the teacher, and so teacher talking time is kept to a
minimum.

5. A humanistic approach: the teacher engages with students and reacts


to them as human beings.

6. Variety of pace: sometimes energized, sometimes reflective.

7. Variety of activities: both so that students don’t get bored and to


accommodate different learning styles

8. Variety of interactions: pairs, small groups, whole group, student to


teacher, teacher to student, student to student, etc. Linguistically
heterogeneous where possible

9. Variety of skills practiced: reading, listening, speaking, or writing

10. Variety of approach: the lesson incorporates different learning


styles and accommodates different cultural approaches to learning.

11. Relevance: the lesson meets students’ linguistic and personal


needs

12. Clear instructions: instructions are clear and easy to follow.

13. The lesson provides a bridge to further self-study and use


outside the classroom.
14. Flexibility. The lesson and teacher should be responsive to
students’ needs and energy levels.

15. Anything else you’d like to add?

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