Background

When designing a grammar lesson, there are some steps to follow and principles to keep in mind:

  • Choose grammar appropriate for the level (something challenging but do-able). Remember to think not just about form but also about function. How many forms are you going to teach? How many functions?
  • Find or think of a suitable context for the grammar. For example, if you choose to teach the form ‘going to’ with the function of expressing future ideas / plans at pre-intermediate level, your context could be ‘planning a party’.
  • Choose an approach to teaching the grammar: via a text, via a situation (sometimes called PPP), or via a task (test-teach-test).
  • Make sure your lesson
  • starts with a lead-in which introduces the context, not the grammar
  • keeps more or less to the same context throughout
  • clarifies the meaning, pronunciation and form of the target language (TL)
  • encourages the students to participate in the clarification of the TL
  • gives students sufficient practice of the TL

Task

Choose a grammar area to teach an intermediate level group of students in a 60-minute lesson.

Choose a context and approach (see above). You can come up with something yourself or use a coursebook or online material.

  • Give a rationale for your choices.
  • Make reference to at least one academic source in relation to your choices.
  • Include in an appendix a copy of any material that you refer to and reference it appropriately.

Design and write a complete lesson plan for your lesson using the lesson plan proforma. As this is a grammar lesson, you will need to complete the Language Analysis page (page 2 of the proforma).