3649. How to Get the Most from a Single Text in Class, Look

 The good teacher must know how to plan his or her lessons. They have learned over the years. Now I’m referring to second or foreign language teachers. They learn how to plan efficient lessons for their dear students to learn effectively. 

And there’s a plus. They achieve to plan in rather short time. 

That kind of teacher plans his classes with their actual students in mind. He wants for them to really learn and acquire that target language. 

He knows how to get the most from a class text or a photocopy he has gotten from his resources – they may be modest, though. 

He learns how to be imaginative and he’ll accomplish – as I said – to get the most from a photocopy. 

And he plans several activities from that sheet of paper. For example, as follows. 

First he plans a listening comprehension activity while his students do not have the copy yet. And he has planned a lead-in activity for that listening, for example, a first exercise of predicting what the text is about, just from the title, and he elicits several interesting contributions from his students. 

And maybe he provides or elicits some useful vocab about that topic. 

Then he may hand out the copies to his dear students. 

And he’ll read out the text for his students to grasp some nice pronunciation. Then his students will read it out – reading aloud is good practice. 

Then all of them can work out the text till they know it quite well. For example he will pinpoint some useful lexis – in comparison to the way it is said in their first language. Or even he will have his pupils focus on specific ways of saying things in English – the target language, let’s suppose –, like some phrases or typical idioms. 

Then he can get the students turn the copy over and try – among all the people in class – to recall all they can from that interesting text, or say it in their own words, or other things you may be thinking of right now. For instance also they can summarize the text. 

That teacher, where has he learned all those possible activities? Perhaps from textbooks, or from videos on the Web, who knows? Maybe from just experience. Have a nice day, fellow readers.

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