Michelle Maxom

Teaching English as a foreign language is an exciting and challenging experience. Here, you will find words of wisdom on everything from choosing a course to lesson planning, and all the stages in between.Lesson planning checklist for teaching EnglishNo matter what country you are teaching in, use this handy checklist to make sure that you’re really prepared for each lesson when you’re teaching English as a foreign language.

When you teach English as a foreign language, you can show what the grammar actually looks like when, for example, you manipulate verb tenses in different ways. Here are some examples:Positive: He had written it.Negative: He had not written it.Question: Had he written it?Contraction: He’d written it.Here are other useful points for presenting grammar:Pronunciation: Consider any features that you need to highlight and drill.

Here are some general points of good practice that you’ll find helpful in almost all situations when you are teaching English as a foreign language:Plan aheadAsk for and welcoming feedback. Start off quite strict and easing up later if you can.Start and finish on time.Respect your students.Maintain a sense of humour.

Most teachers use a correction code when they mark written work so that the student can do some self-correction. You can devise your own symbols but this table shows some possibilities. Mark Error Indicated / A word is missing / Start a new sentence // Start a new paragraph Gr Grammar error Sp Spelling error P Punctuation error Art Error with articles (a, an, the) c/unc Countable/uncountable error (you can use a/an before countable nouns but never before uncountable noun) Wo Wrong word order Ww Wrong word Wt Wrong tense Wf Wrong form Irreg Irregular verb ?

No matter what country you are teaching in, use this handy checklist to make sure that you’re really prepared for each lesson when you’re teaching English as a foreign language. I know what level my students are at. I know who my students are – their nationality, language, background and so on. I know how long the lesson is.