Lesson Planning Material

🗂️ An assortment of lessons, arranged from easy to more challenging. Click, explore, and download away 📥✨. I’m cheering you on from behind the scenes with coffee in hand ☕💬.

Make a plan

• First 12 weeks, 12 weeks of lesson ideas to get you started
• Growing Participator Approach - 6 phase language learning method
• Fluent in 3 months is a blog with lots of good articles about language learning. Here are a few to get started on:
  • How to make time if you are too busy
  • Mini-goals are the path to acheiving fluency
  • Imagination: Your key to enjoying memorizing hundreds of words quickly

Language learning ideas

• Using a Photo Book (pdf)
• Using Wordless Videos (pdf) There are links to wordless videos in the pdf, but here are some more:
  • The Bridge - topics: crossing a bridge, arguing, problem solving
  • Autumn - topics: friendship, death
  • For the Birds by Pixar - topics: birds, size and weight

Flash cards and Pictures

• 8 weather flash cards from SparkleBox
• 24 parts of the body flash cards from SparkleBox
• ESL flashcards has lots of good sets of flash cards - school objects, daily activities, adjectives and many more.
• Alifbo, the first grader reader is online in PDF form. While not a great book for learning Tajik, this new edition has lots of great pictures in the first 23 pages - portraits of important Tajik people, and pictures of typical Tajik life, and also a colourful alphabet chart. It would be great to print these pictures for use in lessons.

Lesson plans and self-study arranged (more or less) from easy to difficult

• My Family a lesson plan for beginner level learners
• Past Tense Easy Worksheets, do on your own or with a language helper
• Future Tense Easy Worksheets, do on your own or with a language helper
• Pronunciation Practice, for those unusual letters.
• Double Consonants, a pronunciation exercise.
• Sentence Drills with To Go - lots of drills to practice with a language helper using the verb рафтан, to go. For beginners, but there are ideas at the end to use the drills with more complex sentences.
• Substitution Drills, To Go - practicing with рафтан. Substitution drills start with a sentence and give you instructions for substituting words to make new sentences.
• Comparitives and Superlatives, start on your own, and finish with a language helper.
• Lesson on Plurals, a short text to read with exercises.
• Substitution Drills, ро, practicing with -ро. A self-study activity.
• My Family, an intermediate lesson plan.
• Lesson on Adjectives, Intermediate level
• Substitution Drills, To Want - practicing with хостан.
• Tale of a Bear and a Gardener - story with ideas for using it in a lesson.
• Expand Your Vocabulary - Suffixes, a lesson on suffixes
• Expand Your Vocabulary with the Suffix -дор, a lesson on the suffix -дор