Using PPP lessons for teaching English - Intro to ESL Lesson Planning (Part 2)
Summary
TLDRThis script offers practical advice on designing efficient lesson plans for educators. It introduces the PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) lesson structure, emphasizing the importance of a warm-up to engage students and a wrap-up to conclude the lesson. The presentation phase introduces new material, followed by practice activities to reinforce learning. The production phase encourages students to use language independently, fostering real-world application. The script suggests using creative and interactive activities, along with visual aids, to facilitate learning and concludes with strategies for effectively ending a lesson.
Takeaways
- 📝 Lesson planning is a time-consuming process that requires careful preparation and resource gathering.
- ✍️ The PPP (Present, Practice, Produce) lesson plan is a simple and effective structure for designing lessons quickly.
- 🔍 Starting with a piece of paper or a notes app is a good way to create an outline for a lesson, focusing on the lesson's flow and activities.
- 🌡️ The 'Warm-up' phase is crucial for building interest and preparing students to learn the new material.
- 📈 The 'Presentation' phase is where new content is introduced to the class, and it's important to use engaging activities and real objects for better understanding.
- 🔄 'Practice' involves students applying the new knowledge through various activities, with the use of visual aids to support learning.
- 🚀 'Production' is the goal of the PPP lesson, where students use the language independently without the support of visual aids.
- 🎭 Production activities might include communicative tasks such as role-plays or real-world tasks to encourage language use.
- 🔚 The 'Wrap-up' phase concludes the lesson, often involving a summary, review, or reflection on what was learned.
- 🤝 The PPP structure can be thought of in terms of 'I' (teach), 'We' (practice together), and 'You' (produce independently).
- 🔑 The PPP lesson plan provides a clear framework for teachers to design lessons that are engaging and facilitate student learning.
Q & A
What is the main challenge in lesson planning according to the script?
-The main challenge in lesson planning, as described in the script, is the time-consuming process of preparing lessons, which includes gathering resources and planning activities for the next day.
What is the PPP lesson plan structure mentioned in the script?
-The PPP lesson plan structure stands for Warm-up, Presentation, Practice, Production, and Wrap-up. It is a framework to help teachers quickly and easily design good lessons.
What is the purpose of the Warm-up in a lesson?
-The purpose of the Warm-up in a lesson is to build students' interest in the day's lesson and to get them ready to learn. It introduces the topic without teaching anything new yet.
What does the Presentation section of a PPP lesson involve?
-The Presentation section of a PPP lesson involves introducing new material to the class, such as new vocabulary, pronunciation tips, or grammar points, where the actual teaching happens.
How is the Practice section different from the Presentation in a PPP lesson?
-The Practice section in a PPP lesson is where students get to apply and practice the new information presented to them, often through interactive activities, whereas the Presentation is focused on introducing new content.
What is the goal of the Production section in a PPP lesson?
-The goal of the Production section is to have students use the language independently, without the aid of visual supports, demonstrating their ability to apply the language in real-life situations or communicative activities.
What is the role of the Wrap-up in concluding a lesson?
-The Wrap-up brings the lesson to a close by summarizing the content, reviewing what was learned, allowing students to reflect on their achievements, or preparing them for future lessons.
Why is it recommended to use real objects (realia) in the Presentation section?
-Using real objects (realia) in the Presentation section helps to make the lesson more engaging and concrete for students, allowing them to better understand and remember the new language.
How can teachers make the transition between Presentation and Practice in a PPP lesson more fluid?
-Teachers can make the transition more fluid by bouncing back and forth between presenting new material and having students practice it, rather than strictly separating the two sections.
What is the significance of removing visual aids during the Production section?
-Removing visual aids during the Production section tests students' ability to use the language without immediate support, encouraging them to recall and apply what they've learned independently.
How can the PPP lesson plan structure be thought of in terms of 'I', 'We', and 'You'?
-The PPP structure can be thought of as 'I' teaching something new, 'We' practicing it together with the teacher's help, and 'You' producing and using the language independently without assistance.
Outlines
📝 Efficient Lesson Planning with PPP Structure
This paragraph introduces the challenges of time-consuming lesson planning and presents a solution called the PPP lesson plan. The PPP acronym stands for Warm-up, Presentation, Practice, and Production, with an optional Wrap-up. The speaker emphasizes the importance of starting with a simple outline and explains each component of the PPP structure, suggesting that it aligns with natural lesson planning instincts. The Warm-up is meant to pique interest and prepare students for the lesson without introducing new content, while the Presentation phase is for introducing new material. The Practice phase involves interactive activities to reinforce the new information.
🍏 Utilizing Realia and Enhancing Language Practice
The second paragraph delves into the use of real objects, or 'realia', in teaching to enhance understanding and engagement. It discusses the Practice phase of the PPP structure, where students apply the newly presented material through various activities. The speaker recommends a slow pace with lots of repetition and the use of visual aids to support learning. The transition to the Production phase is highlighted, where students are expected to use the language independently without the support of visual aids, simulating real-life language use through communicative activities and real-world tasks.
🔚 Concluding Lessons with the PPP Framework
The final paragraph focuses on the concluding stages of the PPP lesson structure, emphasizing the importance of a proper wrap-up to avoid abrupt endings. It suggests activities for summarizing the lesson, reviewing content, reflecting on achievements, or introducing future lessons. The paragraph reinforces the PPP structure as a comprehensive framework for designing lessons, starting with the teacher presenting new information, practicing it together, and finally allowing students to practice and produce language independently.
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Keywords
💡Lesson Planning
💡PPP Lesson Plan
💡Warm-Up
💡Presentation
💡Practice
💡Production
💡Wrap-Up
💡Realia
💡Visual Aids
💡Communicative Activities
💡I, We, You
Highlights
Lesson planning is a time-consuming process for teachers, similar to the experience of the narrator's friend's mother.
The lesson provides advice on quickly and easily designing good lessons for students.
Starting lesson planning with a simple outline on paper or a digital notes app is recommended.
Introduction of the PPP (or three Ps) lesson plan structure: Warm-up, Presentation, Practice, Production, and Wrap-up.
Every lesson should start with a warm-up to build interest and readiness for learning.
The presentation phase is for introducing new material and is the core teaching part of the lesson.
Using real objects (realia) in the classroom can enhance the presentation of new material.
Practice involves students applying the newly presented material through various activities.
The practice phase can be dynamic, alternating between presentation and practice.
Production is the phase where students use the language independently without visual aids.
Role plays and real-world tasks are examples of activities that can be used in the production phase.
The wrap-up phase concludes the lesson, potentially including summaries, reviews, or quizzes.
The PPP structure provides a clear lesson flow from warming up to wrapping up.
Thinking of the three Ps in terms of 'I teach you', 'We practice together', and 'You produce independently'.
The lesson plan structure helps in transitioning smoothly between different phases of teaching.
The PPP lesson plan is adaptable and can fit naturally into how teachers might plan their lessons.
The lesson emphasizes the importance of creativity and interactive activities in teaching.
Transcripts
lesson planning takes a lot of time
back in high school my best friend's mom
was a teacher
and i remember her spending a lot of
time in the evening
after dinner planning her lessons and
gathering her resources and getting
ready for all the activities that she
was going to do the next day
and since i've been teaching i've become
very familiar with that same
time-consuming process but is it
possible to design
quick and easy lesson plans
well sometimes it just takes a lot of
time
but one of the things we want to give
you in this lesson is our best advice on
how to
quickly and easily design good lessons
for your students and it's actually not
going to start with this
with the lesson plan template it's
actually going to start
with this with a piece of paper and a
pen
or with a notes app on your phone and
creating
a simple outline for your lesson
and to do that we're going to show you
something called the ppp
lesson plan now i've been teaching this
topic long enough to know that if we
were all in a room together
the second that i said ppp half of you
would start giggling uncontrollably
so if you don't like that term you can
always call it the three ps
but i'm gonna call it by its actual name
ppp
lesson
all right let's talk about
the three p's and this is what i
call a lesson structure
or how the lesson is structured you can
also think of it as
of the lesson order of how you order
your activities or the lesson flow how
these activities
flow together but the main thing we're
going to
look at is this right here the three p's
and the way i'm actually going to write
this out is not starting with p
starting with w and p
p p and another w
and these letters stand for warm-up
presentation practice
production and wrap-up
and in all of your lessons here in tesol
we're going to recommend that you start
every lesson with some kind of warm up
and you finish with some kind of wrap up
but the section in the middle can look a
few different ways and so today we're
looking at the three p's
now a ppp lesson is a great place to
start when we're thinking about how
we're going to structure our lessons
and i think you'll find that it just
naturally fits into how
you might naturally plan your lesson
go ahead and look at each of these
letters one at a time
starting with the warm-up
now each of your lessons should start
with some kind of warm-up
activity the goal of this section is to
build your students
interest in today's lesson and to get
them ready
to learn it there are a lot of different
ways to do this and we'll cover those in
the future
but really the idea of a warm-up is that
you're introducing your students
to the topic of today's lesson and that
you're not really teaching them anything
new yet you're simply warming them up
getting them ready to learn
now some teachers will spend a little
bit of time
reviewing the previous lesson
as part of their warm-up and it's okay
if the warm-up is using and reviewing
content from previous lessons but really
the goal
of a warm-up is just that to get your
students
ready to learn this next lesson
now i just mentioned that you're not
actually teaching anything new in the
warm-up
the teaching of the new content and a
ppp lesson
happens here in the presentation
so the presentation is when you present
new material to the class
new vocabulary new tips for
pronunciation
new grammar points etc and this is
really where the teaching happens
where you might stand at a whiteboard
and point at some words or show your
class some pictures and get them to
repeat things
after you however we'd also recommend
that you use lots of fun
activities to present this new
information to your students
this will often take a little bit of
creativity and also take some special
resources so
can you bring in some realia
or some real objects for your lesson so
if you're doing a lesson and it's about
apples and fruit then you would bring a
real apple to class instead of
photos of apples or giving lectures
about
apples can you bring in realia the
actual real
object into your classroom
now the next section of our ppp lesson
is
practice here's where you get the
students to practice what you just
presented to them
now some teachers prefer not to do these
as two separate sections
of their lesson plan instead they will
bounce back and forth so they will
present
a few words or phrases to their class
and then they will do some kind of
activity
to get their students to practice using
that new language
before then going back and presenting
some more
once again then practicing
and so you don't have to think about
this as being a strict
line separating these two parts of your
lesson if you prefer you can go back and
forth between the two
but the idea remains the same in a ppp
lesson
you present new information and then you
get students to practice it
i recommend that you go slow that you
use
lots of repetition
and most importantly that you use lots
of activities here
you don't always have to use activities
for your presentation
but when it comes to practice we are all
about finding different kinds of
creative
interactive activities to get your
students practicing what they're
learning
another important part of practice is
using some kind
of aids
so some kind of visual aids to help your
students see the new words
and the language this could be writing a
list up on the whiteboard
or having pictures spread around the
room
however you want to help them see and
understand the content
but the main idea here is that you are
helping the students
see and understand the language
however this will change a little bit
when we get to the next section
which we call production and this is
really the goal
of a ppp lesson is to get your students
to this place of production
at the end of the lesson where they can
now use this language
on their own what this means is that
before
in practice where you gave them some
kind of visual aid to see and understand
the language and to help them remember
it
now you remove those aids
and you see if they can still produce
the language on their own
so if i've been using a list of
vocabulary words during the practice
or a set of pictures i might take the
pictures down off the wall i might erase
the words from the whiteboard and see if
they can still do the same
kind of activities or do brand new
activities
now without the help of the aides
and for me as a teacher and for a lot of
students this is an exciting part of the
lesson because now we're using real
language
we might also be practicing real tasks
in real life situations
and to do this we might use some
communicative activities such as role
plays or information
gaps or we might focus on some sort of
real world
task that they can try to complete
and finally we end with some sort of
wrap up
this is where we bring the lesson to a
close it could include some sort of
summary for the whole lesson
or some review work we could get the
students to reflect on what they just
accomplished
we could even give them a quiz for this
lesson or we could start talking about
what's coming next and future lessons to
come
you might find your own unique style for
wrapping up your lesson
but the big idea is that we don't want
to just abruptly stop our lessons
and this ppp structure gives us a great
way
to think about our lesson where we warm
up our students we get them ready to
learn
then we teach them something new we help
them to practice that new language
then we get them to produce real
language all on their own
and then we find a natural way to bring
the lesson to a close
now another way of thinking about the
three ps is to think of it in terms of
i we and you first i'm going to teach
you something new
then we are going to practice it
together and i'm going to help you
but finally you are going to practice
and produce it on your own without my
help
all right so these are the three p's a
helpful structure
or framework for you to design your
lesson
next we're going to see how we can take
the simple structure and use it
to quickly build a brand new lesson from
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