Lesson 6-7 Planning lessons for teaching different age learners. Paying attention to age factors What does a lesson involve?

8. Active-passive Learners may be activated in a way that encourages their own initiative; or they may only be required to do as they are told.

Guidelines for ordering components of a lesson

1. Put the harder tasks earlier

On the whole, students are fresher and more energetic earlier in the lesson, and get progressively lesson as it goes on, particularly if the lesson is a long one. So it makes sense to put the tasks that demand more effort and concentration earlier on (learning new material, or tackling a difficult text, for example) and the lighter ones later. Similarly tasks that need a lot of student initiative work better earlier in the lesson, with the more structured and controlled ones later.