Teaching for Success: Lessons and Teaching

WEEK 1 PLANNING LESSONS AND COURSES

Task: Identify the aims
Aim to develop writing skills by creating a Haiku poem
Length 40 minutes
Lesson
stage and
timing
Lead in
10 mins

Aim

Procedure

Interaction

Ask questions to elicit that Haiku is a type of poem Whole class

from Japan
Dictate an example of a Haiku poem. Ask questions to
check understanding of vocabulary in the poem
Write the correct version of the poem on the board
for learners to check

Pre-writing:
sharing
vocabulary
10 mins

Brainstorm feelings vocab and write them on the Whole class

board
Do the same with times of the day. Establish that
these are important in Haiku poems
Ask questions to check understanding of syllables and
how this relates to the poem

British Council 2016

Writing

Put learners into pairs

15 mins

Pairs write their own poem

Pairs

Learners write their poems on a post-it

Post-writing

Learners read the poems on the post-its

5 mins
Homework
(after class!)

British Council 2015

Learners write their own Haiku poem to bring to the

next class

Whole class