Lesson Plan for KCCC English Corner, or EC, No. 1

by Charles Jeffrey Danoff
Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory
60093, Chicagoland, USA
ceo@mr.danoff.org
http://mr.danoff.org

Version 0.211

Time 90 min.

The [#] are notes.

Materials Greetings video and flaschards; Hannah's article; Kitty's article

Objectives

1. Learners comprehend and articulate English greetings.
2. Teacher and learners develop rapport and set an open attitude for English Corner.
3. Cover session schedule and set goals.

Setting the stage Introduce myself to learners and them to eachoter, then share my educational background as an icebreaker.

ESL 101 Greetings Video [1] and Slideshow [2] Elicit what students know about American greetings, show video on friendly greetings and then go over slowly with the slideshow.

Two Truths and a Lie [3] Start with "The food I hate is"; "My hero is" and "I am afraid of".

Conversation What do they want to learn?

Articles and Discussion On articles by Hannah [4] and Kitty [5].

Session Schedule and Goals Cover the upcoming sessions and then make preliminary learning goals for each.

Break After 55 min. for 10 min.

Office Hours For the last 25 min.

AAR [6]
Review handwritten after class on May 19th 2011, then typed up on May 25th.

Review what was supposed to happen.

• Positive 90 minute EC.

Establish what happened.

• Positive 90 minute EC with one student.

Determine what was right or wrong with what happened.

• Right: Made class interactive, tried different approaches and stuck to the plan.
• Wrong: Video was not ready to go and I could've explained Kitty's third paragraph better.

Determine how the task should be done differently the next time.

• Video and technology done before class starts.
• Analyze articles for talking points before class (maybe use Breaking News English?).
• Make a video of myself teaching? So I can study myself and students can review after class?

Notes

1. http://www.archive.org/details/Esl101ConversationalAmericanEnglishLesson1Greetings
2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ESL_101_Lesson_1_Image_0.jpg (Change the last number from 0 - 14 to see all the images)
3. http://www.eslcafe.com/idea/index.cgi?display:1069450579-28948.txt via Jay Cederholm's http://danoff.org/jay/adapted-resources-japan.html
4. http://mr.danoff.org/hannahs-advice.html
5. http://mr.danoff.org/kitty-study.html
6. http://www.army.mil/features/FM7/FM 7-0.pdf (p. 98)

Changelog

• 0.211 :: 25 May 2011 :: Reviewed previous version after delivering a lesson on May 19th.
• 0.21 :: 19 May 2011 :: Finished and published first HTML edition.
• 0.2 :: 19 May 2011 :: Did .tex and mediawiki revisions.
• 0.1 :: c. 12 May 2011 :: First draft in moleskine reporter's notebook.

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