How to Write a Lesson Plan – The 4As Format

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This blog post is a transcript of our YouTube video How to Write a Lesson Plan – The 4As Format.

Hello, everyone!

In this video, we will discuss another lesson plan format widely used by teachers—the 4As, or Activity, Analysis, Abstraction, and Application.

This video is already the second part of our Lesson Plan series. If you haven’t watched the first part yet, we recommend you watch it first: How to Write a Lesson Plan – The 3Is Format

There, we discussed the most basic and the simplest lesson plan format every teacher and teacher-to-be should know—the 3Is, or Introduction, Interaction, and Integration.

Now to see how the 4As format works, we’ll be using the same Objectives and Subject Matter from our 3Is lesson plan video.

Let’s have a quick recap of these parts first before we proceed.

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
  1. construct questions answerable by yes/no, and
  2. transform sentences into questions answerable by yes/no
II. Subject Matter
Topic: Yes/No question
Materials: Pictures, power point presentation, laptop, paper, marker, etc.
Reference/s: A. Brown, Intensive English 8, pp. 32-33

(Again, a tip: Don’t forget to put a space between the Objectives and the Subject Matter section. This will help make your lesson plan look clear and presentable. Also, in your Reference, put the title and author of the book—or the link of the website—you are using for the lesson.)

Now the third part of a lesson plan is the Procedure.

III. Procedure
This is where we will use the 4As format. In doing so, we will first discuss each of the format’s components (Activity, Analysis, Abstraction, and Application), then provide examples following the set Objectives and Topic.

Take note that in writing this part of your lesson plan, you are going to number your items or use bullet points. The “Sample” written in the table is a projection of each component in the procedure or lesson proper, the third phase in a lesson plan. It uses the third person pronoun “she” because it assumes that the teacher is a woman.

Although the 4As format looks different from the 3Is, their principles and flow are actually very similar.

There are many ways to be creative with the 4As format—or with any lesson plan format for that matter. Two important things you need to consider are the kind of students you will be teaching, and their ways of learning or coping with the lesson. Remember that great teachers always strive to make their lessons better every day.

In our next video, again following the same Objectives and Subject Matter, we will be using 5Es format for the lesson plan’s Procedure and—finally—write with the Evaluation and Assignment part: How to Write a Lesson Plan – The 5Es Format

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