Effective Lesson Plan Modifications for Engaging Learners

1. Preparing/modifying materials for lesson plans Grammar examples

2. General reasons for modifying materials • fail to fulfill the goals and objectives specified by national curricula • fail to fulfill the goals and objectives of schools • cannot be finished in the time available • require facilities or equipment that are not available • not engaging the learners’ personality

3. Principles of materials adaptation • Making activities communicative • Making learning activities relevant and purposeful • Meet your learners’ needs • Use models of real, authentic language

4. Four tasks easy to modify

5. Become a scriptwriter • Students are provided with a list of phrasal verbs • Teacher asks the students to write a script using as many phrasal verbs from the list as possible (in groups of 4) • The script closest to the original (video) and with most number of verbs is the winner

6. Become a scriptwriter

7. Become a script writer

8. What if…... • Students watch a brief video “what if wild animals ate fast food” • Then students are asked to work in pairs and write a number of sentences starting “if wild animals ate fast food they would……”

9. The longest sentence • Look at the sentence below. Add words to the sentence to make it longer. Rules: • The sentence must be grammatically correct The boy found a kitten in the street

10. Thank you