ABSTRACT
This final chapter deals with various aspects of what might loosely be called ‘classroom preparation and management’. Its content is more heterogeneous than in earlier chapters. The proportion of ‘information or knowledge given’ to ‘reader activities’ is also different. In some sections, there is very little information/knowledge provided, sometimes because the relevant area has already been covered in earlier chapters. But there are many more reader activities – in and outside boxes. The reason is that the chapter is predominantly dealing with skills, and even when all the knowledge is known – when all has been said – there are still lots of skills to master. This book cannot offer detailed teacher training. The most it can do is to try and give you a sense of what skills are involved in preparing and managing lessons. So this chapter is full of activities and questions. Do not be put off by the number of questions asked. The intention is certainly not to daunt you with the complexity of what good language teaching involves. Indeed, many of the skills described in this chapter come easily to novice teachers. The modest intention is to make you aware of what these skills are, and to stimulate you to think about them.
