Juanita Said:

Lesson ideas on future tense?

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Here are many links on how to teach future tense. Just browse through them & I'm sure you'll be able to garner many ideas from the same.
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And these links are for Micro teaching future tense :
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You can have pictures or flash cards that show an action taking place [you could use little film strips too]. However, leave the action unfinished, & ask the class what will happen next, or similar questions to elicit the 'future tense' response.
Some comparative flash cards can show the completed task - to indicate past tense; while you could also show the present where action is going on.
You could also ask the kids to formulate questions based on flash card action & thence elicit the difference between the 3 tenses, focusing, of course, on the future tense.

Choose action(s) that kids would enjoy & would eagerly await.
I would, ideally, go for a cartoon film with their fav characters. And use the 'pause' buttons to ask or elicit Q & As.

Choose only about 3 or 4 verbs so as to keep within the time frame.

Hope these help
All the best :-)

Leo Said:

Lesson Planning: Microteaching, The Lesson Plan, and the lesson Preparation?

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Ok. If you're asking what these things are, here we go:

Lesson planning-the process of deciding what you're going to teach people on your course over the duration of your course (e.g. 15 weeks), deciding how much information you can cover in each lesson, deciding what you want to achieve by the end of each lesson, deciding which teaching and learning methods to use (e.g. student centred-individual worksheets) and how you will know if your students have learnt what you wanted them to learn by the end of the lesson & course (e.g. exams, homework essays etc).

The lesson plan is the document which shows what you hope to achieve by the end of the lesson (aims & objectives), what you're going to cover(content), which teaching and learning methods you will use (student centred/teacher led-watching videos, talking to the class, worksheets? etc), how long you will spend on each activity and how you will check that students are achieving what you want them to (e.g. questions and answers, homework essays). The lesson plan should also inclde things like the name of the course, name of the lesson, name of the class and how long the course is.

Lesson preparation is the process of getting ready for the lesson. This includes designing your lesson plan, scheme of work (course plan), finding out more about your learners (e.g. special needs that you need to account for, such as dyslexia), any eqiupment that you might need (e.g. TV and video) and designing & printing/photocopying your resources.

Microteaching is when you teach or talk about a small part of your lesson (e.g. 15 minute student activity), so that PGCE tutors or potential employers get a feel for your teaching style, strengths & weaknesses.

I hope that this is what you wanted to know. If not, please retype your question more clearly, so that people can give you better answers.