CELTA Lesson Planning

Your main aim is the guide to everything else in your lesson plan.

• True

• False

You should have only one main lesson aim.

• True

• False

If the main/sub aim of your lesson is target language, you need to write down exactly what language you are planning to teach.

• True

• False

You don't need to include the context for the lesson, i.e. the context in which the language will be presented and practised.

• True

• False

You can only have one subsidiary (sub) aim per lesson.

• True

• False

When deciding on personal aims, you should think about what your tutor and peers mentioned in feedback as well as what you feel is important.

• True

• False

There's no need to include a copyright symbol on student handouts.

• True

• False

In the lesson plan, you should include anticipated problems related to both classroom management and target language.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

False. Problems that learners might have with target language should go into the Language Analysis document.

In your lesson plan, aim to anticipate problems with ___ (tick all correct answers)

• materials

• tasks

• learners (e.g. late comers, stronger/weaker, dominating/shy)

• task instructions

When describing procedure of each task/stage, you should be pretty vague and abstract.

• True

• False