Planning the
unplannable
How to do what you should AND
have fun!
Overview
1. What do we want to do?
2. What do we have to do?
3. How to jump through hoops in
style…
4. Planning all your classes made
simple - macro to micro
5. The details
„What do we want?“
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Reaching students
Inspiring students
Helping students progress
… and have fun!
„How do we do that?“
• Reaching students:
– Clear responsibilities!
– Limited vocabulary,
– rich grammar
– Repetition
„How do we do that?“
• Inspiring students:
– Students contribute heavily to content
– Make it meaningful
– Concentrate on what they can, not can‘t do
– Have fun!
„How do we do that?“
• Help students progress
– Effective and meaningful tasks, no time-wasting,
no cloze tests, no „find the mistake“…
– No long L1 phases
– No fake baby-grammar
– Repetition
– Restricting output
What do you HAVE to do?
• The most important VENN DIAGRAM
What I
have to do
YAY!
What I
want to do
Let‘s deal with the bad moon…
Macro planning made simple
• Big headlines for the year
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Consider age
Consider the schoolbook/curriculum
Consider methods
Consider the school calendar
• Structure the year:
– 1. Getting to know each other, rules and start
– 2. Get the ball rolling, hard work
– 3. Enthusiasm and consolidation, Problem solving
50 % Reading???
• Time to differentiate…
• Story-recycling
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Translation
Fill in the sentence
Mad libs
Draw
Embedded reading
Reading compr.
Parallel story
Acting
• Working with texts
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Embedded reading
Songs, poems, scripts
Reader‘s theatre
Library time
Readers
My macro planning
• Year five: Words and stories
– Always: Kindergartenday, TPR, TPRS and base
grammar, Vocab fields, Reading, Games,
[INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING]
– Phase 1: Circling with Balls, vocab fields, simon
Says
– Phase 2 and 3: Reading of a simple reader
My Macro Planning Year 6
• Year 6: Library!
– Always: Stories, TPR, TPRS and base grammar,
mistake areas, some word fields, LIBRARY TIME
– Phase 2: Listening comprehension, comparative
exam
– Phase 3: Movie Talk + TPRS reader
My Macro Planning Year 7
• Year 7: Pop Music
– Always: Stories, Pop Songs, TPR, TPRS and base
grammar, mistake areas, some word fields,
LIBRARY TIME
– Phase 2: More pop songs
– Phase 3: Movie Talk
My Macro Planning Year 8
• Year 8: USA
– Always: Subtopics USA from the book, reduced
grammar from the book, library time, problem
areas, text types from curriculum
– Phase 1: (Circling with Balls, Methode vorstellen)
– Phase 2: USA and book grammar, Kindergartenday,
Homework buffet
– Phase 3: Movie Talk and Reading, Homework
buffet  Turned into big video project
And now you!
Micro planning made simple
• Rhythm (or how to maintain
your sanity)
– Create frequency
– Use double lessons for stories
– 50% reading
– Room for specials
My Micro Plan
• Wednesdays library time. Or taking turns with
Kindergartenday
• Every second Friday (double lesson) stories
• In-between storyrecycling, reading and other
methods, problem solving
• Even easier: same stories, same books, same
films
• Plan with the end in mind!
And now you!
Prepping a double lesson
• Determine Phrases
– High frequency words
– Problem areas
– Curriculum
– Book
– End goal
• Or choose a script or write one
• Create or collect material if applicable
Thank you very much!
• Questions and general problem
solving
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