Content: Introduction Mainpart

General steps a lesson preparation

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   Study the school syllabus (general requirements, requirements for a certain class).
   
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   Observe conditions in which teaching-learning process is going to take place.
   
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   Acquaint with additional materials available and those necessary for successful work.
   
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   Study a lesson plan available in Teacher’s Book and correlate it with abilities of your pupils, your personal characteristics.
   
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   Try to create your own lesson plan that coordinates with your intentions:
   
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      Think over practical, cultural, educational and bringing-up aims that have to be realized in the lesson.
      
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      Choose linguistic materials, exercise suitable for realizing the aims.
      
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      Think over activities which ‘stir’ (wake up, stimulate) a class and which ‘settle’ them.
      
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      Choose methods and techniques aimed at better acquisition of material and realizing the objectives. If they are chosen successfully, the pupils will see the results of work and it will be easy for the teacher to make conclusions.
      
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      Arrange components of the lesson logically in accordance with parts of a certain lesson type.
      
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      Think over the hometask i.e. the time of its presentation, content, size. It is better if it naturally emerges from the lesson procedure.
      

Basic Principles of Teaching and Learning English in the Primary School

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   Every lesson should begin with a greeting in a foreign language and a talk. In the group of the complete beginners the teacher conducts the conversation with pupils. Later when pupils have already had some experience, a pupil on duty or any other pupil may conduct it. It is possible to arrange the conversation in pairs. A foreign language should be used for all classroom activities.
   
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   There should be a variety of activities in every lesson.
   
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   The lesson should be conducted at a high speed when oral drill exercises are performed. Pupils may be seated while saying a word, a phrase or a sentence.
   
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   The lesson should provide time for the activity of every pupil in the class. The teacher should talk as little as possible.
   
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   The lesson should provide conditions for pupils to learn. “Language is a skill, so it should be learnt, it cannot be taught,” - ³M. West once said. Pupils should be taught to learn for themselves.
   
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   The work done during the lesson should prepare pupils for their independent work at home. At early stages it is advisable not to assign as hometask exercises including language material that has not been covered in class.
   
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   The lesson should be equipped with teaching aids and teaching materials, which create natural situations for developing pupils’ listening and speaking skills in a foreign language.
   
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   Develop ways of checking whether the pupils understand what they say may be linguistically correct.
   

All the primary stage first of all we should distinguish lessons of introductory course (first term of the first year of language learning). The peculiarity of introductory course is oral conducting of lesson. Pupils speak and read letters of ABC. They neither read words, sentences, nor write. Oral teaching demands inventiveness, quick activity on the part of the teacher. It is time to involve pupils in the world of English, to find a place for English in their hearts. Bright visualization is obligatory. Games, poems small, dialogues role-play, chorus work should prevail.