Teaching Or Reviewing New Vocabulary
Each lesson includes a set of ESL flashcards to teach or review the vocabulary.

• Show the flashcards one-by-one, eliciting each word.
• It’s best for your students to attempt to say the word before you do. (This makes the learning process more student-centered. It also allows you to gauge their level and find out which words they already know.
• Before going on to the next word, clearly state the word yourself, and have your students listen and repeat a couple of times.
• After you’ve gone through all the words, put the flashcards up on the whiteboard and re-elicit them one last time.

Teaching The New Grammar Structure
After your students are familiar with all the new vocabulary, use the ESL flashcards to elicit the target structure.

For example:

• If you’re teaching Simple Present Be verb + adjective, put a Y or an N under each image symbolizing yes and no.
• Ask: Is he hungry? Is he tired? Is he thirsty? etc…eliciting ‘Yes, he is.’ or ‘No, he isn’t.’.
• If students are making mistakes, correct them, and have the class listen and repeat the answer a couple of times.

Open Pairs (Teaching the question)
After students are familiar with the statement or the answer, they should start practicing the question. They will already have heard you say it a number of times, so now they’ll need a chance to try it on their own.

• Point to one of the flashcards on the board and have one student ask a question to another student across the class. (Only help your students with the question if you feel they need help. At this point they should be attempting it on their own if possible.)
• Each time a question has been asked and answered have the class listen and repeat it a couple of times. (When the students are listening and repeating you should carefully be going over pronunciation, intonation, and elision.)
• After you’ve done a number of open pairs, have all the students try to ask the question to someone sitting close to them (in closed pairs).

Written Record
Once you feel that students are familiar with all the new vocabulary and the new grammar structures, it’s important that students have a chance to write it all down. Taking a written record really helps to reinforce everything the students have just been learning.

• Hand out the lesson sheets, and tell students to look at the Written Record Section.
• Re-elicit all the vocabulary from the flashcards, each time asking “How do you spell that?” and then write it on the board under the flashcard.
• Students should copy all the new vocabulary on their Written Record sheets under each image.
• Re-elicit the target structures, and write them on the board as well. There is a space provided at the bottom of each Written Record sheet for students to take notes and write the new structures.

That’s it
Your students should now be ready to begin using the structures on their own. Put them into pairs and have them work on the Pair Work activities on the second page of the lesson.

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