Everyone in EFL wings it from time to time. You didn’t have time to prepare or even think about your lesson, so you go in with the textbook and a cassette or a bunch of photocopies and fly by the seat of yer pants. With experience, you’ll even have some lessons so internalised that you can teach them, and maybe only need the whiteboard and a pen. Maybe not even those…

Be careful not to become a career winger though! In my opinion this is when you keep rolling out activity based lessons day after day.< Read more »