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Lesson Plans and Lesson Plan templates

General Lesson Plans

cover image - Cooking and Numeracy Lesson Plan Cooking and Numeracy [PDF file 351KB]
Your learner is interested in better understanding how to read a recipe and increase or decrease the quantity according to how many servings are needed. This lesson provides the recipe, some numeracy activities and references to Simply 123, a math resource on our website.
cover image - Cooking and Literacy Lesson Plan Cooking and Literacy Lesson Plan [PDF file 388KB]
Your learner is interested in better understanding how to read a recipe. This lesson provides the recipe, a cloze activity, and resources for creative interaction.


cover image - Goal Setting Lesson Plan Goal Setting Lesson Plan [PDF file 474KB]
Setting goals is a fundamental piece to the tutor learner relationship. When adult learners set realistic goals and objectives around learning, they provide the tutor with critical information that reinforces a learner-centred approach to tutoring. This lesson will help the tutor and learner set realistic and task specific goals.
cover image - Lesson Plan - Idioms - Love 'em or leave 'em! Idioms - Love 'em or leave 'em! [PDF file 2.3MB]
Your learner has set some learning goals around the English language and understanding and using its many complicated phrases and idioms. Idioms can be tough to understand and use so relax, have fun and remember, there’s no use in crying over spilt milk!
Lesson Plan - Multiple Intelligences Multiple Intelligences [PDF file 1.5MB]
Your learner has set some learning goals around literacy and would benefit from knowing how they learn best. In this lesson, you can explore different learning styles, called Multiple Intelligences, to understand people learn differently and how that can benefit us in choosing our education and career paths.
Sentences: Nouns and Verbs Sentences: Nouns and Verbs [PDF file 343KB]
Your learner is interested in learning to write basic sentences and gain an understanding of structure and grammar in the context of nouns and verbs. This lesson provides some general guidelines for writing sentences, some writing activities and references to Simply ABC, a writing resource on our website.
Sentences: Prepositions Sentences: Prepositions [PDF file 440KB]
Writing is an important method of communication and as we start to develop our basic writing skills we can increase our tools for writing stronger, more effective sentences that increase in difficulty as we progress through our learning. This lesson looks at prepositions and how we can use them to connect words and ideas. You are provided with some writing activities around prepositions and references to Simply ABC, a writing resource on our website.
Synonyms, Antonyms & Homonyms Synonyms, Antonyms & Homonyms [PDF file 550KB]
Selecting a correct writing style can be a struggle for many adults wanting to improve their literacy skills. English is hard because sometimes we use a plain , sensible style, and other times we need to dress up our writing for a flashier more dramatic style. In this lesson plan you can practice exercises found in your Tutor Training binder such as phonics, sight word, a cloze activity and more to help your learner become more comfortable with using different writing styles.
Verbs: Past, Present and Future Verbs: Past, Present and Future [PDF file 367KB]
Your learner is interested in expanding upon their sentence writing activities and would like to explore the use of different verb tenses. This lesson provides some general guidelines for conjugating verbs in the past, present and future tenses. Included in this lesson are some writing activities and references to Simply ABC!, a writing resource on our website.

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