Essay On Lesson Plan

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Lesson planning is an important component of teaching English language because a good teacher must make a lesson plan in order to achieve the objectives of a lesson. This term, I had a chance to observe grade 6 students.The classroom was composed of 31 students. All of them were native speakers of Turkish and their English proficiency level is elementary. In the lesson which I attended, the teacher taught simple present tense. So,the main objective of this lesson was to make the students use the simple present tense. To do this,the teacher made a detailed lesson plan and she divided the lesson into the stages. In this paper, I am going to mention how she taught the simple present tense and whether it was an effective lesson or not.
First of all, as a warm up activity, the teacher made a revision about the action verbs that students were taught in the previous lesson. She asked them the meaning of the some action verbs in Turkish . In this part of the lesson, the problem was that she often spoke them in Turkish and students spoke in their native language, too. I think, she could use her body language, gestures, materials instead of speaking in Turkish.For example, it would be better, if she used a flash card that show an action verb like, having a breakfast. If I were her, I would showed them some flash cards and I …show more content…

In short, the theacher used deductive way of teaching. The good thing was that she did not give the all rules for simple present tense. I think, it was good because if she gave all of them, it would be difficult for students. However, I am not in favor of giving grammar rules. According to me, inductive way of teaching grammar is more effective than the deductive one because the students discover the rules themselves and they involve in the target language

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