A Lesson Plan of The Audio-Lingual Method

2014 Fall Semester- Week 3

Step OneMake a brief introduction of The Audio-Lingual

Method with a PPT (20 minutes)Tell the classmates (5 minutes)1. Only the target language is allowed

2. The dialogue you want to teach

3. The 7 drill activities you have designed

Step TwoActivity 1: Students follow the instructors to read

aloud each line of the dialogue repeatedly (15 minutes)

During the activity, you have to1. make sure that students understand each line of

the dialogue and follow the instructor’s model2. direct the students to take turns to practice the

dialogue3. stop students if they are away from the model

Step Three Activity 2 (backward build-up drill): Invite

students to follow the activity (5 minutes)During the activity, you have to

• 1. break down the troublesome sentence into small parts

• 2. start with the end of the sentence and have students repeat the last part

• 3. add a few more words little by little until the entire sentence is repeated

Step Four Activity 3 (chain drill): Invite students to follow

the activity (5 minutes)During the activity, you have to 1. give students an opportunity to say the lines

individually2. direct students to take turns to use the

expressions in communication with someone else3. let the last student direct the dialogue to the

teacher

Step FiveActivity 4 (single-slot substitution drill): Invite

students to follow the activity (5 minutes) During the activity, you have to• 1. direct the students to repeat a sentence from the

dialogue• 2. direct students to replace a word or a phrase in

the sentence• 3. direct students to replace a word or a phrase

according the cues the instructor provides

Step SixActivity 5 (multiple-slot substitution drill):

Invite students to follow the activity (5 minutes)During the activity, you have to• 1. teach students to recognize part of speech of the

cue words• 2. direct students the place to fit in the cue words or

phrases• 3. change the cue words or phrases to let students

practice putting them in right places with right forms

Step SevenActivity 6 (transformation drill): Invite students to

follow the activity (5 minutes)During the activity, you have to• 1. ask students to change one type of sentence into

another• 2. ask students to change affirmative sentences into

negative sentences• 3. ask students to change active sentences into passive

sentences

Step EightActivity 7 (question and answer drill): Invite

students to follow the activity (5 minutes)During the activity, you have to• 1. held up a picture (cue) and ask a question with the

cue and answer the question by yourself• 2. held up the second picture and do the same thing by

yourself• 3. ask students to practice asking and answering

questions with following the cues you held up

End of the activity!