INTRODUCTION TO ELT METHODOLOGY

MICROTEACHING LESSON PLANNING CHECKLIST

1. Do you clearly set up objectives and content?

2. Do you clearly set the aids to be used in the different parts of the lesson?
3. Do you establish a comfortable classroom atmosphere?
4. Do you have an activity to warm-up?
5. Do you clearly set how information is to be organised and shared?
6. Do you get your students involved?
7. Do you check on specific language you (as a teacher) need for the lesson?
8. Are you introducing new content?
9. Do you conceptualise the language you are using?
10. What lexis do you teach? How much? When? How?
11. Do you provide safe contexts for practice?
12. Do you provide opportunities for recycling vocabulary?
13. Are the activities suitable for your students?
14. Is there a justification for cutting, drawing and colouring?
15. Do you give your students a purpose to listen during all the activities?
16. Does it have a good balance between skills and activity types?
17. Do you check for comprehension and learning?
18. Do you help students to identify rules?
19. Do you shift the focus and patterns of interaction?
20. Do you set up activities that promote communication?
21. Are integrated skills involved in the lesson?
22. Do you establish a framework in which students work without the teacher?
23. Do you anticipate problems and come up with solutions?
24. Do you set time limits for the activities?
25. Is the timing realistic?
26. Do you have extra activities for fast finishers?
27. Do you provide enough activities?
28. Do you reach all types of learners?
29. Is it a student centred or a teacher centred plan?
30. Do you offer students an opportunity to participate?
31. Is the lesson plan flexible?
32. Do you use different kinds of materials? Which ones?
33. Are new technologies included?
34. How do you end the lesson?
35. Do you link the lesson to previous/future ones?
INTRODUCTION TO ELT METHODOLOGY