Cora Lindsey and Paul Knight distinguish language aims – including three
areas of vocabulary, functions, and grammar. Skill aims – reading, listening,
speaking, and writing. And subsidiary aims – these are the language or skills that
your learners practise but which you are not specifically concentrating on in the
lesson (p. 104). As already mentioned in sections 3.4.3 and 3.4.4, with the help of
songs a lot of different areas such as all the skills, grammar, vocabulary,
pronunciation can be practised, so any of these aims is suitable for a lesson with a
song, and can be set. It is just important to make it clear which will be the main aim
to focus on in a lesson. In my research both lessons (song and poem lesson) had the
main language aim, which was vocabulary acquisition, and skill aims focused on
listening, reading, and speaking in a song-lesson, and reading, listening, writing and
speaking in a poem-lesson. Subsidiary aims were grammar and pronunciation.
Setting a teaching aim is the first necessary and important step of a lesson
plan. The next steps are making up suitable motivation, choosing and preparing
materials and aids we will be using, and deciding about classroom management.
These are also the titles of the following subchapters we will concentrate on.