Online Video Workshops:
Part 2 Introducing New Material

Lesson Planning: Main meat of the lesson

• Teach Song then Game to Practise the target language
• Go straight to using a song without any drilling of language. Saves a lot of time.
• Always include actions, cute pictures, melody, as many senses as possible to maximise chances of remembering each word.
• Teach what kids want to be able to say, not what you want to teach.
• Keep the happy, funky, cool stuff for the end. End on a high note.
• Teach one question + around 8 answers per lesson.
• If 8 is too much, split it in two and do a mini game in between, like we did with the "I like everything game"
• A game for a game's sake is no good. Every game is there to practise the English in a fun way.
• Be as genki as you can when teaching the song, then get the kids doing the game as quickly as possible so you can get on with preparing the next stuff.
• Include the previous lessons' English in the current game. No lesson is in isolation.
• Use a stopwatch to add excitement.
• Ask the kids if they can make the time limits or not. If they think they can, they can!
• Finish off with a happy ending.