Demo lesson: family members, age and hair

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How often do you change the lesson plan a bit (or a lot) to suit your learners' needs, interests and expectations?

I’d planned to teach a class about family members so we could revise vocabulary and practice talking about age in English. She turned up all excited and mentioned her mum had given her a book and she'd love it if we "could work on reading comprehension in class”.

We read a page together and it dawned on me: I am going to add kinds of hair to this lesson.

A few pictures here and there et voilà! We have managed to gossip about the entire family and had lots of fun!

Check it out:

Here’s a few of the class notes: