Lesson Plan: Chinese Teacher Training Session 4

Lesson Plan: Chinese Teacher Training Part 4

This lesson is designed as session four of a series of four given to introduce Chinese teachers with a low level of English to both the English Language and British Culture.

The four sessions together form a one day seminar.

Lesson Level: Training For Chinese Teachers    Lesson Duration: 45 minutes

Lesson Title: Classroom Techniques of British Teachers In China

Grammar/Vocabulary

Demonstration of classroom techniques

Lesson Objectives

To introduce Chinese Teachers to the techniques used by western language teachers and compare them to Chinese techniques.

Preparation 

This lesson plan assumes that you are familiar with and have observed both western teachers and Chinese teachers delivering English lessons.

Coloured ball for Hangman game

Map sheets/Instruction sheets for the collaborative activity.

Pictures of the animals can be used for the zoo activity. 

Procedure 

1 

Explain to the class that you have observed Chinese and Western teachers giving English lessons.

Talk about the normal Chinese techniques of repetitive drilling and rote memorisation

Explain that a foreign teacher has a different job... to encourage and devlop speaking and listening

Talk about biggest problems... class size and student engagement.

Remind them from last lesson of different size of classes in UK.

(Laugh at Telegraph report describing UK class sizes as “among the biggest in world” (average 26 for primary, 24 for secondary)

Ask how they deal with the class sizes in China.

Class discussion

2 

Explain that you will now demonstrate how we deal with it.

Break class into groups of four.

Explain that I always break the class into groups of between four and eight and then teach as if each group is one student.

Advantages: students less reluctant to answer questions – group responsibility not individual

                     can ask every group a question where you can't ask every student

                      tell story of observing one (western teacher) who asked EVERY student in a class of 52

                     “What will you do in the holiday?” and used entire lesson on one question.

Disadvantages: students can “hide” and let others do the work.

3 

Demonstrate Hangman and variations

Describe the purpose of the task.

(To develop and remember vocabulary in an interesting way)

4 

Demonstrate a communicative activity

(Zoo creation activity.)

Give the map sheet and the instruction sheet to each group.

Allow just a few minutes for them to begin the task. (Not enough time in lesson to complete)

Describe the purpose of the task: to encourage communicative and collaborative discussion within groups.

 

5 

Final Q and A session about anything covered during the day.

Give address of the blog www.esolesfltefl.blogspot.com and explain what they will find there.

Notes

For the Hangman game a coloured ball can be used to select student to give next answer.

For the collaborative activity each group needs a zoo map and a set of instructions.

See below

Zoo Activity: Information sheet.

1.     The giraffe is having a baby.

2.     Crocodiles are very scary.

3.     Some animals need water.

4.     The panda is very shy.

5.     The monkeys are very noisy.

6.     The camel is very smelly.

7.     People don’t like empty cages.

8.     Some animals are shy but some are scary.