Lesson Plan

Time	Stages	Materials
10	Warming Up
30	Reading part	Textbook
30	Listening and Speaking part	Audio file
20	Writing part	Workbooks
10	End of the lesson

2.2 Development of training materials for the interactive whiteboard

The right “warm-up” in an English lesson will help you achieve several important goals. Firstly, it is a bridge between the old information that students already know and the new that you are going to present in this lesson. It will help students to establish a relationship between the topics, repeat the old material and better learn the new one, because it will be built on a solid foundation of existing (and just refreshed) knowledge. The goal of the warm-up is to simultaneously attract the student’s attention, engage his memory and direct all this to a new goal.

A good workout should be interesting and stimulate student curiosity. For example, based on leading questions, students can guess what the topic of the new lesson will be, which will be discussed in detail, why this is important. That’s why it’s useful to bring in visual material, questions on the board, or small related videos during the warm-up. After the warm-up, a discussion of the goals and objectives of the lesson usually follows, which should also stimulate students' interest and motivation, letting them know what real and useful skills they will acquire as a result of the lesson.

Figure 3 - Warm up scheme

Figure 4 - Reading scheme

Figure 5 - Listening and Speaking scheme

Figure 6 - Writing scheme

Lesson Plan

In this section, we present a template for how an English lesson will look like using an interactive whiteboard, a full lesson plan will be presented in the appendix.

Warming UP

Vocabulary

This slide shows the words from the last lesson, let's repeat them

Grammar - Present Simple

Game - Words

Reading

Topic 1

Topic 2

Grammar -Present Continuous

Vocabulary builder

2.3 Recommendation for using Interactive Whiteboard

Interactive whiteboard is an indispensable tool for conducting lessons. In English lessons, an interactive whiteboard can be used throughout the lesson. In this section, we will give recommendations for using the interactive whiteboard. The figure below shows the main elements of an interactive whiteboard.

Figure 7- Main elements of IWB.

The control panel allows you to navigate the workspace, draw over the screen. When drawing, you can both change the content of the flipchart and draw on top without changing the original content.

When using an interactive whiteboard, great emphasis should be placed on visual perception, pictures or video materials. The text on the whiteboard is often poorly legible on the back desks. Projectors are also a feature of the display, the image should be bright and contrast, so that in the daytime you can clearly see the contents.

Figure 8 - The board on the left side is not calibrated, on the right side there is a clear picture.

Images or text on an interactive whiteboard should be as informative and comprehensive as possible. Long offers should be discarded.

Figure 9 - comparing text with the claster

The implementation of the proposed task can take place in group form, i.e.  the image is executed by several students in series, each of which performs a certain stage of the image. Moreover, the use of an interactive whiteboard in the mouse mode provides the opportunity to work with an electronic marker, which greatly facilitates the drawing of some image elements when working with the Pencil tool, and in practical applications is more familiar than working directly with the mouse.

Students can collectively discuss what actions need to be carried out, what new moments to bring to the creation of the image. After all, the reference image proposed by the teacher is not the only true one, students can be creative in completing the assignment. The only condition remains compliance with the main stages of the image. When creating materials, students noted that the best arrangement of the material is in the center.