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🌱📘 The ESOL “Base Lesson Recipe”

 


📘✨ ESOL BASE LESSON TEMPLATE

🔵  THE BASE LESSON (ALWAYS THE SAME)

🧺 Base Ingredients (Every Lesson)

  • 👋 Warm-up / activation

  • 👂 Input (listening / reading / viewing)

  • 🧠 Language focus (vocab / grammar / pronunciation)

  • ✍️ Guided practice

  • 🗣️ Speaking / interaction

  • 🔄 Review & reflection

🥣💛 Base Lesson Flow

1️⃣ Activate prior knowledge
2️⃣ Comprehensible input
3️⃣ Notice the language
4️⃣ Supported practice
5️⃣ Communicative use
6️⃣ Reflect & check learning

♾️ Built-in Pedagogy

  • 👥 Sociocultural (interaction & collaboration)

  • 🎨 Experiential (learning by doing)

  • ♾️ UDL (multiple ways to engage & express)

  • 📝 ESOL scaffolding (models, sentence frames, visuals)

📊 Assessment (Always Present)

  • ✅ Formative: observation, drafts, peer talk

  • 🎟️ Exit ticket / quick reflection

  • 🔍 Teacher notes for next lesson

🟢  THE SWAP-IN OPTIONS (CHANGE THESE)

(Like cake flavours — mix & match!)

📖 Input Swap (Choose ONE)

  • 🎥 YouTube clip

  • 📖 Short story / poem

  • 🎭 Script

  • 🎧 Audio

  • 📰 Short article

🧠 Language Focus Swap

  • 📝 Grammar (past tense, sentence structure)

  • 🎯 Topic vocabulary

  • 🧩 Linking words

  • 🗣️ Pronunciation / stress

  • ✨ Descriptive language

✍️ Practice Task Swap

  • 🧩 Sentence building

  • 📜 Short paragraph

  • 🎨 Storyboard

  • 🧠 Gap-fill

  • 💻 Google Doc / Slides

🗣️ Speaking Activity Swap

  • 👥 Think–pair–share

  • 🎭 Role play

  • 🎲 Language game

  • 🎤 Mini presentation

  • 💬 Group discussion

🔄 Reflection / Assessment Swap

  • 📝 Self-assessment checklist

  • 🗣️ Oral reflection

  • 💬 Peer feedback

  • 🎟️ Exit ticket

  • 📊 Teacher rubric

🎨💐 Memory Trick

  • Side A = the bowl 🥣

  • Side B = the flavours 🌈

  • Same lesson shape, different learning every time

    (this is a really strong teaching framework 🌟    )

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