module 5 planning of the english language teaching-learning process

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LOJA
Área de la Educación el Arte y la Comunicación
English Language Career
Changing the
form of tasks
Changing the
level of the
material
Reordering
material
Making use of
all the
resources in the
book
• The task doesn't suit the learners'
learning style.
• You want a change of pace.
• The coursebook often repeats the
same kind of task
•The texts or tasks are too easy or
too difficult.
•The activities in the units in the
book always follow the same
sequence.
•The learners need to learn or
practise things in a different order.
•There is not enough practice
material in a particular unit.
•The learners need to revise
particular items.
•You want to preview material in a
future unit.
•Change the interaction pattern, e.g.
use a matching task as a mingling
activity (i.e. one in which learners
move around the class, in this case to
find their partners).
•Make material more challenging, e.g.
learners try to answer comprehension
questions before reading.
•Make material less challenging, e.g.
break up a long text into shorter
sections.
•Change the order of the material,
e.g. ask learners to cover up a page
or part of a page, so that they focus
on what you want them to do first.
•Use extra material from the book:
grammar summaries, word lists, lists
of irregular verbs, etc.
•Give whole-book tasks, e.g.
searching through the book for texts,
pictures, language examples.
Key concepts and the language teaching classroom
• There may be good reasons for leaving out part of a unit, or even a whole
unit, but remember that the coursebook is one of the main sources of
learning (and revision) for our learners. So they may find it confusing if we
do this too often.
• The coursebook will normally provide the main content for a lesson, while
material that needs to be more personalised for the learners will probably
come from the teacher (or from the learners themselves). When planning
lessons, think about what the coursebook gives you, and what you need to
add. For example:
Coursebook provides:
Teacher can provide
additional:
• situation/context • warmer
• pictures • instructions
• dialogues (conversations between two people) and • role-play
texts
• tasks and exercises • homework tasks
• If we plan to reorder the material in the coursebook, we must make sure that
this is possible, i.e. that a task/exercise does not depend on a previous one.
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