Planning a syllabus



Syllabus
•= A long-term overview
•= List of contents of a course in an order

Kinds of a syllabus:
•Grammatical
•Functional
•Lexical
•Based on skills work
•Based on topics or tasks
•Mixture of mentioned above

The Common European Framework (CEF)
•Published by the Council of Europe
•What learners need to do
•What they need to know
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•The level students achieve will be respected in any other country

•Followed by RVP (National educational programme)
•And ŠVP (School educational programme)


Work plan
•= syllabus translated into a balanced and interesting series of lessons
•Work planned for a particular lesson
•How that fits into the week and the course
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Work plan
•   Usefull also for:
•Teachers sharing with you
•Teachers substituting in case of illness
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Kinds of work plan
•A skeleton work plan – general headings
•         (e.g.Tuesday: listening) brings balance
•A detailed work plan – what is to be done
•         (e.g. Present perfect simple, oral
•         practice, Unit 7 B)

•You know you will be absent for a fortnight.
•Prepare a work plan for your colleagues to substitute.