Delivering Lessons via E-mail

At the beginning of the second term this year I decided to do some assessment in terms of the number of classes scheduled versus the number of classes my students were really taking. Why? I noticed we were doing less than I had expected.

We were all very happy, but I started to suspect something was missing between this feeling of happiness with the mutual conviction that learning was happening and the feeling that it took us longer to cover our lesson plans.

To my surprise the numbers were not very good. Students were taking fewer classes than we had both planned.

I did some research and thought about ways to deal with this challenge. It was a moment of chaos and uncertainty, but this process led me to take action and after ideating different possible solutions, I took this decision:

When students cannot take their classes, I email them the lessons

This is a lesson plan I designed on demand.

Language level: Low Intermediate + adaptable to fit other levels

Learner type: Teens; Adults

Time: 90 minutes

Activity: Predicting, Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing a story or poem

Topic: Legendary stories; Magic

Language: Vocabulary related to legendary stories and magic, physical appearance, emergent needs

Note: The first two slides in the following presentation include a description to the project: “Delivering Lessons via email”and as from slide 3, I present the lesson as I would have recorded it to share it with students