Lesson Plan Template (Task-Based Grammar
Lesson)
TOPIC: LEVEL: Time:
Target language (grammar and
vocabulary):
Skill in focus:
Secondary skill focus:
Lesson objective:
Preliminary considerations:
What vocabulary/grammar/information/skills do your students already know in relation to today’s
lesson?
• Ss will already have studied and be familiar with …
• Ss will have recently reviewed …
What aspects of the lesson do you anticipate How will you avoid and/or address each of
your students might find challenging/difficult? these problem areas?
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Time Stage Procedure /steps Interaction
Introduction
to
topic & task
Task
Planning
Report
Analysis
Practice
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Evaluation
and
Reflection
Self-Evaluation Rubric for TBTL Lesson
Meets criteria Approaches criteria Does not meet criteria
Lesson plan contains all Lesson plan does not Lesson plan does not
TBTL TBTL components; contain all TBTL contain TBTL components;
components are well components; and /or and /or components are
Structure balanced components are not not balanced
completely balanced
Topic is sufficiently Topic is somewhat Topic is not sufficiently
TBTL explored; students have explored; and/or students explored; and/or students
enough opportunities to have some, but not are not sufficiently
Pre-task prepare for the task sufficient, opportunities prepared for the task
to prepare for the task
Students have clear roles; It is not completely clear Students’ roles are unclear;
they have enough time what roles students have; time for planning,
for planning, practicing and /or they do not have practicing and reporting is
and reporting; selected sufficient time for not balanced; selected
TBTL task(s) are age planning, practicing and task(s) are not age
Task appropriate and include reporting; selected task(s) appropriate and do not
critical thinking are somewhat age include critical thinking
appropriate and /or do
not include critical
thinking
Grammar focus is Grammar focus is Grammar focus is included,
included; students included, but is not but is completely teacher-
examine and discuss the organically integrated in centered; students are not
TBTL
target grammar feature; TBTL; students are not engaged in examining and
Post-task teacher conducts practice actively engaged in discussing the target
of target patterns examining and discussing grammar feature; practice
the target grammar
feature; teacher conducts
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some, but not sufficient, of target patterns is
practice of target patterns mechanical
The lesson has an activity The lesson has one or The lesson does not provide
that a) explicitly assesses more activities that could any way to assess learners’
learners’ achievement of be used to assess achievement of the lesson
TBTL the lesson objective and learners’ achievement of objective.
b) matches the language the lesson objective and
Evaluation proficiency focus of the one or more of these
objective. somewhat matches the
proficiency focus of the
lesson.
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