Roll Out of the Six-Session Webinar Series on ENGLISH

PROFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL

LEADERS
(Teaching Grammar Communicatively in the Philippines)
CARCAR CITY DIVISION CASCADE
October 29, 2021
9:00AM- 11:30 AM, MS Teams Livestream
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Roll Out of the Six-Session Webinar Series on ENGLISH
PROFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL
LEADERS
(Teaching Grammar Communicatively in the Philippines)
CARCAR CITY DIVISION CASCADE
October 29, 2021
9:00AM- 11:30 AM, MS Teams Livestream
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Training Proper

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 Session 5: Planning Lessons Using
the Communicative Approach

Angie D. Cordova
Learning Facilitator
Carcar City Division
Credits to Ms. Samantha Parks for the slides modified by the learning facilitator
 Terminal Objective:

At the end of the 2-hour session, the participants shall be

able to write a communicative lesson plan.
 Enabling Objectives:

In this webinar, the participants shall be able to:

●follow steps to create a communicative lesson;
●identify the components of a communicative lesson; and
●adapt lesson components for teaching online or in other
modalities.
 Step 3: Write the lesson plan
● The lesson has a beginning, middle, and end
○ The middle consists of 2 parts:
■ Controlled/Guided/Restrictive practice
■ Free/Freer/Communicative practice

● Assessment: How will we know when the students have

succeeded?
 Middle School ESL/EFL
Type of Class: Level:
Topic: (Not the grammar point! The context or 7th Grade
situation):

Talking about where we have been. Describing a

picture.

Target grammar
item: Prepositions: In/On/At

Lesson objective
(Your objective says what learners will be able to do (to read, to write, to say, to listen for)
employing the target grammar.)
By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to …
Describe a picture provided or of themselves detailing the date, time, and place in the picture
while accurately using the prepositions in/on/at.
Beginning
Stage
Presentation
• How will you engage learners or arouse
their interest in what is to follow?
• How will you introduce the target
grammar item? How will you situate it /
contextualize it?
• What examples will you give? How can
you make sure that the examples are
effective, memorable, and meaningful?
• How will you check learners’
understanding?
Time Activity
●Present a family vacation photo. Ask
students to identify or guess where the
5-10 photo was taken. Try to have students’
Min answers move from general to more
specific.
●Students can read or listen to the Voice
of America Everyday Grammar text on
In/At/On and take notes.
●Discuss the 2 charts: move from general
to specific (left to right).
 Guided practice activities
• Story Chain
• Drills/Chants
• Dictogloss
• Guessing Games
• Cloze Activities

There are so many

options!
 Restricted/Guided/Controlled Practice
• How will you help learners 10-15 ● Ss practice asking each other
focus on the target grammar min questions about where they are
item? right now using model.
• Is the practice activity ● T answers questions and gives
contextualized? corrections to pairs.
• How will learners get
feedback on their accuracy? ● Ss share answers in a large
group. T writes correct answers
on the board.
 Communicative Activities
• Interviews
• Jigsaw
• Roleplay
• Debates
• Essay writing
• Presentations
• Conversations

There are so many

options!
 Free/Freer/Communicative Practice
20-
•How will you structure a 25 ●Ss present their photo using the
safe environment for min. model as a guide.
experimentation? ●Ss present first to small groups,
•How will learners employ then volunteers share in large
the target structure to group.
engage in meaningful ●Students ask each other follow-
communication (speaking, up questions about the pictures.
writing)?
Closure/Evaluation
Lesson ending
• How will you check if learners • T listens to presentations for
can use the target structure to accuracy but does not interrupt.
communicate their own ideas? 5-10
• T reviews the target
language after the
presentations. Check
•How will you ask them for comprehension.
feedback? • T asks students what they
learned and if they liked
presenting their photos in 2
polls.

How would you close this

lesson?
 Assignment
Create a communicative grammar lesson using the
steps we discussed in this module and the template.
• You can adapt the lesson we worked on or pick your
own grammar point and content.
• Follow directions on Facebook for submission.
 References
VOA Learning English, Robbins, J., & Thompson, A. (2018, February 15). Everyday
Grammar: In, On, and At. VOA.
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/prepositions-time-place-everyday-gr
ammar-in-on-at/2732061.html

World Learning. (2019a). Module 2, Task 7: Prepare and Implement a Lesson Plan.
In “Teaching Grammar Communicatively” [MOOC].

World Learning. (2019b). Lesson Planning Template. In “Teaching Grammar

Communicatively”[MOOC].

Unless otherwise noted, all images in this presentation are the author’s own or are “no-
attribution required” under the Pixabay simplified license or the Unsplash license.
 See You This Afternoon!

The next English Proficiency Program for

Teachers and School Leaders session,

One Step Further: Tasks

October 29, 2021

with Mrs. Maribel Alegarbes

Roll Out of the Six-Session Webinar Series on ENGLISH
PROFICIENCY PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL
LEADERS
(Teaching Grammar Communicatively in the Philippines)
CARCAR CITY DIVISION CASCADE
October 29, 2021
9:00AM- 11:30 AM, MS Teams Livestream
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