Lesson Planning

Tools for ESL Lesson Planning
A book of techniques, sample lesson plans, activities and resources for teaching ESL (Second Edition)

ESL and Citizenship Programs Division of Adult and Career Education Los Angeles Unified School District 2004 (revised)

Acknowledgments Many thanks to the following people for their hours of work as members of the Lesson Planning committee. The sample lessonplans are the result of their knowledge and classroom experience: JAYME ADELSON-GOLDSTEIN, CRAIG CARTER, SUN HEE KIM, JENNIFER MORENO, FRANCISCO NARCISO, JULIE PASOS, MARILYNN SCHALIT, ROBERT SUCHER, AND SUSAN TARNE. Appreciation is also given to those teachers who field tested these lesson plans in their classrooms and gave feedback to the committee: ALEX ALEXANDER, SERGIO ARGUETA, JOHN FINLEY,PENNY GIACOLONE, DOUG GOULD, JIM HANH, MARILYN HOCH, DARLEEN HODGETTS, AMY LACY, LAUREL LOCKHART, MICHAEL NEAT, MICHAEL NOVICK, JANE PAHR, DONALD PHANG, EVELYN PUN, EVA QUEZADA, LINDA STAUFFER AND TIM WAHL. The team is very grateful to JEAN OWENSBY, whose diligent copy editing of this edition of Tools for ESL Lesson Planning provided the punctuation and clarity missing from the first edition.Special thanks to team leader JAYME ADELSON-GOLDSTEIN for her guidance, expertise and content editing of these materials. Thanks also to DOMINGO RODRIGUEZ, former Coordinator of Adult ESL and Citizenship Programs, who conceived of and launched the development of this project during his tenure. His guidance, leadership, and support were greatly appreciated by everyone who worked on Tools for ESL LessonPlanning. CATHERINE E. BELL Coordinator Adult ESL and Citizenship Programs

DOLORES DIAZ-CARREY Director Instructional Services APPROVED:

JAMES A. FIGUEROA Assistant Superintendent Division of Adult and Career Education

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION BASIC TEACHING TOOLS Classroom Management Techniques Pair Work Team Work Multi-Level Strategies xvi SAMPLE LESSON PLANS Beginning LowLesson Plans Beginning High Lesson Plans Intermediate Low Lesson Plans Intermediate High Lesson Plans Advanced Low Lesson Plans ii xi xii xiii How to conduct a/an… Corners Activity Focused Listening Information Gap Jigsaw Activity Mixer Narrative Reading Activity Peer Dictation Activity Problem Solving Activity Roleplay Survey Writing Activity REFERENCES Books from the Sample Lessons Resourcesfor... Visuals and TPR Sequences Information Gaps Focused Listening Jigsaw/Reading Activities Writing Activities Team Tasks Problem solving and Roleplays Internet & Supplemental Materials Definition of Scans Skills and Competencies 169 170 170 171 171 171 172 172 173 174 156 157 158 159 161 162 163 164 16 5 16 6 167

2 32 62 92 118

TECHNIQUES & ACTIVITIES GUIDE Teaching with... Early ProductionTPR (Total Physical Response) Dialogs Drills Games Grammar in Context 149 150 151 152 154 155

TOOLS FOR ESL LESSON PLANNING

Introduction
WHY THIS BOOK? Lesson planning means many things to many teachers. For some, it means several hours of labor over the weekend to create a weekly overview or rising early in the morning to lay out a daily plan. For others, it is the thinking time whiledriving between jobs. For many teachers, it is the perusal through the textbook to see which pages meet their students’ needs. No matter what type of lesson planning you do, this book was written to make your teaching life richer and less stressful. The materials in this book were designed for both the novice and experienced adult ESL teacher. They were written and field tested by over 30 adult ESLteachers from all over the Los Angeles Unified School District. Within these pages you will find techniques and activities that are supported by different language acquisition theories: language as behavior-based, language as transaction-based, or language as structure-based. Several different methodologies are also represented within the lessons, including the Audio-Lingual Method, the...