Lesson Plans

[ollylama]

I've been scouring the net looking for complete lesson plans for adults, not just worksheet or activity sheets, but ready-to-use 2-hour lessons, mainly teaching conversation.

Does anybody know any good free resources?

Thanks!

Edited May 17, 2008 by ollylama

[DragonQuest]

I also need that for highschool and university levels.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

OP, what level are you looking for ? Also, are you teaching general English convo or something specific, such as for tourism, business, etc. ?

[ollylama]

OP, what level are you looking for ? Also, are you teaching general English convo or something specific, such as for tourism, business, etc. ?

Actually all sorts of subjects - tourism, business, even engineering, of all things. There should be some website out there where teachers can pool their resources. Otherwise it's just a case of reinventing the wheel each time, right?

[otherstuff1957]

Very few sites have actual lesson plans, however, some worksheets are going to be better than others!

onestopenglish.com -some free, but you might consider joining

mes-english.com

enchantedlearning.com - good stuff for young learners

pppst.com - powerpoints on every subject

There are many more out there if you click on some of the links.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

^ Like he said. I've never found any websites with freebie lesson plans available. The ones I have come across want subscriptions. So, if OP finds any we've all missed, please post here and maybe save us some time in future planning.

Meantime, I'll add a few which might be useful to the OP:

http://esl.about.com/od/englishlessonplans...EFL_Classes.htm ~ some conversation resources here

http://www.speakoz.com/english-directory/one-on-one.html ~ designed for 1-2-1 tuition but can be adapted

http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/esl-worksheets-tp.htm ~ topical stuff here

http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/conv.htm#Reading ~ good conversation topics here which you could intergrate into your lessons

http://iteslj.org/Lessons/ ~ scroll down for conversation resources

http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/EnglishP/esllesson/ ~ some resources here if you click links

http://hiteacher.com/dir/Teaching_Resource...ties/index.html ~ I've used ESL Lounge before and some of the resources are quite good for conversation work, especially board games

HTH

[MODS: hope it's OK to post links here, I notice previous poster hasn't, so pls edit if I've broken protocol, thx]

[Ijustwannateach]

For these informational kinds of things I think we can leave the links.

[withnail]

My advice to any new teachers starting out is to save yourself the time trying to find that website or book that's going to give it all to you on a plate and just plan your lessons yourself. Get yourself a decent coursebook and go from there.

[PeaceBlondie]

Agreeing with withnail. I have known of private adult students who were more than willing to buy a beginner textbook, or they or their kids already had one or two handy. A good textbook is well written by an expert. But I do not mean a Thai textbook.

[Soph]

I always found this one really good for adult conversation:

http://www.english-4u.com/

Soph

[Nataraja]

Try www.breakingnewsenglish.

Good luck

[withnail]

Even if these links are good, remember that 20 or 30 good, one off lessons put together do not make a syllabus. It's also very likely that you'll find something to fill the first few hours and then be back where you are now. Getting a decent book (Oxford and Cambridge University Press would be a good place to start) will provide you with probably 120 hours of material organised into a logical sequence in terms of topic, grammar and vocabulary.

[Ijustwannateach]

Incidentally, if you're lucky enough to be teaching a subject at some sort of standard level, and lucky enough that your school is willing to buy the real subject texts for your students and a real teacher's book for you, along with support software- then most of the pre-packaged courses from major textbook publishers include full sets of lesson plans which can be individually tweaked for your classes.

I realise that at most schools here, those are awfully big IF's, so I fully understand if this sounds like Pie in the Sky to many of our members- but worth noting.

[mizzi39]

I have to agree with withnail. You are much better off tailoring your own lesson plans to fit the needs of your class than finding pre-packaged plans on the web. I use a standard lesson plan template and can knock off four or five lesson plans in no time. For general conversation and listening I use the "New Interchange series". My M-1 and M-2 classes seem to enjoy using Interchange and I find the series to be straight forward assuming that you have the teachers book and tapes (cd's) I am able to get two-three fifty minute classes from each unit (three lessons). I started using "effective Academic Writing'(Oxford U. Press) to teach writing skills to my students. The series starts off with "building a sentence" and progresses to "essay". I must say there are many good textbooks and an equal amount of junk so be careful. Find a textbook that you are comfortable using then it will be easier for you to convey to your students. Well that's my two cents! Good luck!