VeggieChick... Good luck with your demo lesson...
If I understand correctly, you're giving a Demo lesson, most probably as a marketing strategy to enrol new students, either the students trying out the classes or other students watching your demo...
Either way, here's what I think people want to see:
1. They want to see a fun, exciting interaction between teacher and students.
2. A happy, always smiling, always friendly teacher
3. A lesson that has a clear flow from start to finish with clear stages and progression from one activity to the next, all the while staying on track with the overall theme of the lesson.
4. A lesson that is not too difficult and which allows the students to use their English skills, whatever their level may be.
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WOW... is THAT all ???, you ask.
I like to start with something guided and relatively easy, such as an
information gap activity. (click for explanation). This can be done in pairs with the teacher monitoring all groups at once - requiring teacher to be standing and walking around from pair to pair...(after a while, you'll learn to pick up a grammatical error whispered on the other side of a crowded, noisy room) Next, graduate from a guided communication activity to a more open (free) communicative activity, hopefully on the same or similar topic, allowing students to use the language they just practiced in a guided manner, but now they can expand and go wild with it. eg. If the Info-gap was on the topic of Self Intros and Personal Info (name, age, address etc...) the second activity could be getting the students to interview as many classmates as possible in 3 minutes, taking names and details down on paper.
If your demo were only 10 minutes long, you'd be saying
WELL DONE, SEE YOU NEXT WEEK by now...
So good luck with it... (or...I hope it went well
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