TEFL Prague and Abroad

      Create Your Own Country ESL Demo - Low Intermediate Level                            To kick off lesson planning, here is a demo lesson that I did about a year ago to a group of practice Czech Students on one of  the TEFL courses at The Language House. It's a good example of a Task Based lesson where the students, in this case, have to create a new country in groups based on about 10 new lexical words like - population, export/import, capital city, landscape...etc. At the end of the lesson, students discuss and compare their new countries to each other using the correct sentence structures and lexis that we taught earlier in the lesson. Is this an example of my best work? Of course not, but it demonstrates some positive qualities that you want in a lesson.  A couple of things to note though about the video - Even if your lesson goes horribly wrong, you're still in a beautiful city 1. I had never taught these students before. 2. I hadn't taught a s