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The unobserved lesson plan consists of 3 stages:
1.The Warmer (10–15 minutes)
2.Stuff from the book
3.The Game (20–30 minutes)
Stage C ensures that the students leave the classroom looking moderately cheerful.
Stage A: The Warmer
This is a filler—a little game or something to keep the few punctual students busy while you wait for all the late arrivals. Some fillers require no preparation at all.
Stage B: Stuff from the book
When you are not being observed, just tell the students, “Turn to page 104”, and work through the book until the time is up.
If you have your own copy of the tape (essential), do every listening. This saves you having to cue the tape for the next class.
Stage C: The Game
If you are not careful, this could take a lot of preparation. Jill Hadfield’s games are particularly notorious for lots of cutting-up beforehand.
You are supposed to play a game that relates to the grammar, topic, etc in stage B. However, games that aim to practise a particular language point are usually crap. In unobserved lessons, do not bother.
Padding
If the horrid little swots do everything too quickly, you will need to pad out the rest of the lesson. Try to do this before stage C.
Padding ideas:
•another filler
•tell a filthy story
•teach them some rude words
•gossip about the other teachers.
!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
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