Hi my name is Aly, and I want to help you learn. And I am an English as a Second Languge teacher by trade.

Now, ESL teachers have to do many things before teaching an English lesson.

First of all, they must look at the course objectives and decide what to teach the students in the lesson.

Then they must choose the right materials for the student.

After that they need to decide how the student will access these materials.

Not least, they must think about all of the possible problems that might arise and apply their minds to the solutions.

Before the problems happen.

These are only some of the things that a professional teacher will do before class.

What word can I use to describe all of these things that a teacher should do before teaching a class?

Eugene: How do I start using this website to learn English?
Chad: All of our lessons are on the notebook page. This is where we start our ____________ for class.
Eugene: What do you mean?
Chad: You see...in the live class we will practice and be assessed on the things that we studied before the class. The teacher wants us to be ready for the activities and exercises that we do in class. We must organize our thoughts about the live class material and be familiar with it before the class starts.
Eugene: Oh I see.
Chad: There are many things that we should do as a part of our online _______________, but I guess the first thing to do is to start.
Eugene: How do I do that?
Chad: Go to your notebook page on this website and click the button that says "Start Here" at the beginning of the module. They will tell you what to do after that.
Eugene: It's not complicated?
Chad: Not at all.

This is where we start our online preparation for class.

In the conversation, Chad tells Eugene that the teacher wants the students to be ready for the activities and exercises that they do in class...before the class starts. This means that you will organize your thoughts about the live class material and be familiar with it before the class starts.

On this website, you as a student prepare for your live class. You should be ready for and familiar with the activities and exercises that your teacher has planned for you. Most importantly, you should organize your thoughts about the class even before it starts.

There are a number of courses on this website. Each course has a number of modules and lessons that you must do before attending your live class.

Most of these modules and lessons are organized in a step by step order. This means that the information in the previous lesson is important for the lesson you are currently working on. And the lesson you are currently working on contains important information that you will need for the next lesson. In other words, if you skip a lesson, you will miss information that will help you succeed.

We use an adjective to describe the way the schedule is organized on this course. What is it?

Some of the courses on this website follow a ___________ schedule. This means that the lessons are arranged in a step by step format. The purpose of this is to help you understand and become aware of important information in small pieces. For example, if you complete Lesson 3 in a course, you will be better prepared to accept the information in Lesson 4. As a result, you should complete the preparation modules and lessons in order. Doing any lesson that you want in any order will not be an effective use of this website.

Some of the courses on this website follow a sequential schedule. The modules have been arranged in a step by step format. Doing the lessons in order is essential to help you succeed during your live class.

We have a very important word in English. It is important because it describes a reason for doing something. Lemme tell you a story about my friend's dad and his planned preparation for...in this case...solving a little's boy's big problem.

"When I was really young, I used to have nightmares about a monster called Winky. Now I don't believe in monsters now but I did back then...Well one day I came crying out of my room screaming and yelling that Winky was there. My father got up went into my room and came back out without a word. I asked him if Winky had gone...he said that he burned him with his cigarette. And you know what? I never saw Winky again."

In my friend's story above, why do you think the father said it that way? What word can I use to describe his reason? His prepared plan?

Look for this word in the conversation below and write it in the blank.

Eugene: Hey Chad...
Chad: What's up?
Eugene: I looked up the word "purpose" here in my handy dandy dictionary and it gives me a whole bunch of meanings. How am I supposed to check if I understand?
Chad: That's right...there is no one-to-one correlation from word to meaning in English.
Eugene: So you mean that one word can have many meanings?
Chad: Right...it's just that there are so many different kinds of meaning in English...we need a way to know which one is being used.
Eugene: And that's why teachers try to describe something and then make us think about it first.
Chad: Exactly.

The ____________ of the lessons and modules is to help you prepare before your live training session.

The purpose of the lessons and modules is to help you prepare before your live training session.

You might want to give some thought to the purpose of the videos from the teacher's end. Think about why they want you to learn from it.

By the way...my friend's father's purpose was to get him to stop crying about Winky.