ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some useful tips on how to run a language classroom by focusing on various concepts such as beginning and ending of lessons, planning the lesson sequences and individual lessons, lesson starter activities, seating plans, and corrections versions of students' responses. In the real world, lessons do not always start perfectly, but the teacher can help the process along with a trick or two. Most teachers make a broad plan for weeks ahead, but prepare detailed lessons a week or two in advance. Great teachers make sure each task follows on logically from the previous one, constantly reinforcing the main learning points. Starters or "warmers" get the class in the right mood, help the teacher manage the classroom, but, above all, are an effective way to recycle language, providing students with more TL input and practice. Most good teachers do selectively correct and provide "recasts", that is, corrected versions of the student's response.
