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 Fluentize is one of my favorite resources for ESL English teachers. This resource will streamline your lesson-planning workload, saving you hundreds of hours yearly. I teamed up with them, and if you use my code, CHRIS20, you'll get 20% their entire site.  Watch the video to learn about Fluentize and why it is my #1 resource for English teachers. Fluentize is hundreds of video lesson plans on demand I'll let the video do most of the talking for me, but essentially, Fluentize is a growing library of ready-to-go lesson plans all built around real-life videos. You can either buy lessons in packs or get a year's membership that offers you unlimited access to the entire library. I have a very close personal relationship with the creator of the company. He's an awesome teacher and created the majority of the lessons himself over the years. As of July 2023, they have over 410 lesson plans on their site, with 80-100 new lessons being created every year.  A membership will save...

What is an Introduction to a Lesson? All good lessons for the most part should have a greater topic that your target language fits under. The Introduction is a way introducing your topic and possible target language in an interesting and engaging way. In general, introductions are only a few minutes long and don't necessarily have to include a lot of student output.                           Why are Good Introductions Important? Introductions serve to engage the class right from the beginning. You want your students to get involved and be interested in what they are about to learn. Most teachers that complain about their students being lazy or apathetic or unmotivated or unresponsive probably are not engaging their students enough and probably don't have really solid Intros. If you can get your students engaged in the first few minutes of the lesson you're likely to carry that energy throughout your lesson. This ...

This is the general structure of a lesson plan using an ESA/PPP format. Let's just go over the basics and then we can talk about each step and how to make it as effective as possible. Things to consider about lesson planning 1. What's your goal? What do you want the students to be learning by the end of the lesson? 2. Is it worthwhile/useful for them? 3. Do you have sufficient target language and a topic for your lesson?     (Hey you reading this! Follow the blog. Just add your email on the right or click 'Follow my Blog' on the bottom right----------------.>>>>) ESA - Engage Study Activate - PPP Present Practice Production. They pretty much mean the same thing. Creating a good lesson generally involves introducing a topic, introducing target language (grammar, lexis, slang, new content...etc) studying the target language and finally having the students use the target language in a REAL discourse. This means questions back and for...