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Lesson Preparation in ELT

Current Popular Types:

Currently there's CLT (Communicative Language Teaching), and TBL (Task-Based Learning). TBL is becoming more popular, and has more studies supporting its success. TBL uses TTT: Test, Teach, Test lesson format.

Time to prepare:

It typically takes me minimum an hour to prepare for an hour long lesson. That's assuming I've already had thinking time, the material prepared, and it's an easy grammar target with an easy class. Realistically, it takes me about three hours to prepare an hour long lesson. Of course, the more experience you have (and dedication), the longer it takes to prepare. As they say, "if you're failing to plan, then you're planning to fail."

Lesson Planning, TTT:

	There are many ways, this is one suggested way that I adapt in many different ways much of the time. TTT was developed specifically for the Task Based Approach, but is adaptable just the same.
	Test: a way of seeing what students already know on the topic or grammar point
	Teach: What they need to know to improve their knowledge of language for the topic or grammar
	Test: Give them a chance to use it, and see if they've acquired the knowledge you intended them to learn
	Also see samples in Basic Lesson Plans

Lesson Planning, CLT:

There's no real style nor suggested means; it's pretty freestyle, sometimes with disastrous results, other times with good results. See these books for help and ideas.

For more ideas go to Training in ELT

> For more ideas, go to Training in ELT

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