
Learn to write effective CELTA-style lesson plans with personalized feedback from a CELTA tutor. Explore cover page structures, sections, grammar and reading lesson planning, stages, and practical templates.
Explore sample feedback for Celta preparation and improve lesson planning through personalized feedback for candidates.
Analyze the cover page of a CELTA lesson plan, detailing description, main and personal aims, materials, class profile, assumptions, timetable, and anticipated problems and solutions.
Learn to write a clear celta procedure form by detailing five sections—stage name and aim, materials, interaction patterns, time, and abbreviations—using bullet points and third-person descriptions.
Explore ready-to-use lesson plan templates for grammar, reading, listening, speaking, and writing, using PPP and DTT approaches, with tips, samples, and downloadable resources.
Plan lessons with controlled practice, semi control practice, and freer practice to balance accuracy and fluency, sequencing from controlled to freer activities and providing timely feedback.
Explore the lead-in stage as a quick, topic-related activity that sets context and engages learners, and differentiate it from warmers and fillers with practical ideas.
Explore the ppp framework, presenting target language, controlled practice, and production in personalized tasks. Learn to clarify meaning, form, and pronunciation, and monitor with feedback to reinforce accuracy and fluency.
The lesson introduces the TTI approach to lesson design and its four stages. It covers DTT use, testing and teaching sequence, and practical solutions to common problems.
Explore the DTT approach and its four stages—test, teach, second test, and fluency activity—to identify gaps, tailor instruction, and improve accuracy and fluency.
Explore guided discovery in language teaching, compare deductive and inductive approaches, and map the four stages: exposure, analysis, rule, and practice into collaborative classroom activities.
Outline the stages of a reading lesson: prereading, while reading, and post reading, along with skimming, scanning, and reading for details, and practical activities.
Engage learners with a lottery scenario to present the second conditional, then clarify meaning, form, and pronunciation, and guide practice from controlled to free using the PP approach.
Plan a reading lesson by structuring prereading, while reading, and post reading stages, select five to seven vocabulary words, and use the reading lesson template to design and seek feedback.
Plan a grammar lesson using the PCP approach, guiding students through leading, exposure, highlighting, clarification, and practice from controlled to freer, with tailored materials and templates for feedback.
Upload both grammar and reading plans on the no-registration site, copy the link, and send both together as a message for feedback within seven days.
This course will teach you all about lesson planning and is perfect for any teacher as well as for candidates who want to take CELTA. You will also get to practice writing 2 lesson plans and get personalized feedback on them from me, an experienced CELTA Tutor and Teacher Trainer. The materials for writing the plans are pre-selected.
By the end of the course, you will be able to write any type of lesson plan and be ready to write your own plan for your work or CELTA course. A list of the outcomes:
Writing main aims, subsidiary aims, and personal aims.
The difference between lesson frameworks
How to stage your lesson
how to write the cover page of a lesson plan
How to write the procedure form of a lesson plan
Types of activities
Lesson plan templates to guide you when writing any lesson
Personalized feedback on 2 plans (materials are pre-selected)
A few of the lessons in this course are included in my other course, CELTA Preparation. What is not included in that one:
The personalized feedback you will get on 2 lesson plans,
Planning the reading lesson,
Planning the grammar lesson.
The materials for writing the plans are pre-selected. I will give you enough guidance to get you started, but not too much so you can practice writing them and be ready to write lesson plans for your work/CELTA.