Prep for Friday

How do we advise incorporating grammar into lesson plans? What are some of the types of grammar points you cover with the following proficiency levels: beginners, beginner-intermediate, intermediate.

Describe the benefits and challenges of teaching reading. How would your approach to teaching reading be different between a class of beginners and a class of adolescents?

What are the three ‘while reading’ tasks that we do in building reading strategies? Provide two examples of questions you may ask for each type of reading task

Compare and contrast working with young children versus working with teenagers. What are the challenges of each and how would your role as teacher change when you teach each group?

List and describe some of the requirements of a successful speaking production activity and some of the challenges teachers face in delivering a speaking English lesson.

List and describe some proactive and reactive ways to mitigate classroom disruptions.

What are three key benefits of the three P’s as a teaching approach?

What are the 4 functions of behaviour and how would you approach each?

Compare and contrast the Communicative Approach and Direct Method of teaching English as a second language. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? Why is the Communicative Approach so important to second language acquisition?

How much time should be spent on the practice portion of the lesson plan? (Please assume a 50 minute class)