Teaching English Lesson Plans

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In 5 hours I have to teach a 20-minute english lesson to my Linguistics course as the practical part of my teaching english as a second language course.

I haven't started at all. I'm thinking of teaching weather and time. Have any of you taught english before? Do you have any lesson plans or ideas?

Thanks

I have had to give several informal lectures on English before to foreign students overseas. One of the things I discuss are easy to grasp concepts on how English varies from many other languages.

I usually discuss the lack of gender-specific articles in english vs. gender specific articles in many other languages. e.g. In English, the gender of the word has no effect on the article used to reference it. "The" book, "a" book or "the" house, "a" house. It is always "the" or "a(n) and it does not change whereas in Spanish "el" libro and "un" libro for masculine and "la" casa or "una" casa for feminine.

This is a jumping off board. You can then move on to describe that Engish does not have universally enforced rules of pronunication as do other languages. e.g. In english the letter "O" can be pronounced "oh", "aw", "uh" whereas in Spanish "O" is always "oh".

Hope this helps...

p.s. - I am not a language expert and have no formal lingusitic training but I have a lot of experience with languages and non-English speakers.

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