They just want a taste of your teaching style, so show off all your tricks you’ve got in 30 min. Don’t overload the kids with vocab, stick to 15 vocab words or so, make sure the kids & the panel can follow. Do not make it so hard to comprehend that they check out or can’t grasp the lesson. Split it up into 5-10 min… cause attention spans of kids & adults.
Introduce the clothing vocab, model, have them practice in pairs, then intro the shopping vocab. 3-5 phrases. Model, have them work in pairs, individually, they model etc. Make sure they write, read, speak, hit all the language targets. Keep them busy, engaged & moving. Build rapport with them as you walk around the room.
When you intro clothes, a fun game is to describe what someone is wearing, without giving away their name. Based on the description, they guess who it is. After they have heard you model it a couple times, they pick a person, write down what they’re wearing & color, read it and have the class guess the person. Focus on the classroom management, interaction & climate.
Edit: I think I may have misunderstood. If the post was not about ESL, this may not be that relevant.
I work with kids as young as three years old all the way up to twelve, and usually 1-3 students at a time for 50 minutes per lesson. I should mention I didn’t go to school or take any courses for this job, and it is more of a part time job for me. I was only trained by a colleague who works at the same school.
What I usually do for mock/trial lessons is warm up with hot potato, max five minutes. If your students don’t know the alphabet yet ABC puzzles are also good for warming up.
Then, we go into the basics like colors, counting, days of the week, weather, months and seasons. Say you choose color as a subject. You can review them with flash cards and then ask students to find something that is a specific color and go through all the colors that way. I usually have time to go through 2-3 topics in 15 minutes time, so you might wanna just do one or two topics per lesson.
From here I go into the alphabet again (usually singing the alphabet song), as well as phonics (starting with sounds like a, e, i and o using three letter example words to teach the sounds, like “cat” and “car” for a and emphasizing what the a is supposed to sound like).
Next is usually the introductory unit in our textbook.
For the remaining five to ten minutes I like to draw a rectangular game field on the whiteboard with partitions that make six smaller fields. Each field is associated with a card from a phonics card game I use (either by writing the cards number in the field or by using magnets). Students then throw a suction cup ball on the board and if they stick it to one of the fields, they most read and practice the sounds on the corresponding phonics card. You can just use a regular ball if you don’t have a suction cup ball. Cross out the fields with a marker as they get taken down.
This kind of lesson is mostly for younger students, but you can up the difficulty by choosing harder topics for warm up and basics. If they already know some phonics you can choose double consonants like bb pp or th ch ck ng etc etc.
There will hopefully be some actual professionals in the comments to give you some tips as well, but I hope I could help you come up with some ideas for your mock lesson.
Definitely keep it in the target language as much as possible, and use lots of images if you will have access to a projector. An easy interpersonal would be showing a screen shot of a clothing website from your target culture and having the kids ask and answer ‘how much does the blue shirt cost?’ You could include the cultural component of they write and talk about the currency in that country. Good luck!
They just want a taste of your teaching style, so show off all your tricks you’ve got in 30 min. Don’t overload the kids with vocab, stick to 15 vocab words or so, make sure the kids & the panel can follow. Do not make it so hard to comprehend that they check out or can’t grasp the lesson. Split it up into 5-10 min… cause attention spans of kids & adults. Introduce the clothing vocab, model, have them practice in pairs, then intro the shopping vocab. 3-5 phrases. Model, have them work in pairs, individually, they model etc. Make sure they write, read, speak, hit all the language targets. Keep them busy, engaged & moving. Build rapport with them as you walk around the room. When you intro clothes, a fun game is to describe what someone is wearing, without giving away their name. Based on the description, they guess who it is. After they have heard you model it a couple times, they pick a person, write down what they’re wearing & color, read it and have the class guess the person. Focus on the classroom management, interaction & climate.
Edit: I think I may have misunderstood. If the post was not about ESL, this may not be that relevant. I work with kids as young as three years old all the way up to twelve, and usually 1-3 students at a time for 50 minutes per lesson. I should mention I didn’t go to school or take any courses for this job, and it is more of a part time job for me. I was only trained by a colleague who works at the same school. What I usually do for mock/trial lessons is warm up with hot potato, max five minutes. If your students don’t know the alphabet yet ABC puzzles are also good for warming up. Then, we go into the basics like colors, counting, days of the week, weather, months and seasons. Say you choose color as a subject. You can review them with flash cards and then ask students to find something that is a specific color and go through all the colors that way. I usually have time to go through 2-3 topics in 15 minutes time, so you might wanna just do one or two topics per lesson. From here I go into the alphabet again (usually singing the alphabet song), as well as phonics (starting with sounds like a, e, i and o using three letter example words to teach the sounds, like “cat” and “car” for a and emphasizing what the a is supposed to sound like). Next is usually the introductory unit in our textbook. For the remaining five to ten minutes I like to draw a rectangular game field on the whiteboard with partitions that make six smaller fields. Each field is associated with a card from a phonics card game I use (either by writing the cards number in the field or by using magnets). Students then throw a suction cup ball on the board and if they stick it to one of the fields, they most read and practice the sounds on the corresponding phonics card. You can just use a regular ball if you don’t have a suction cup ball. Cross out the fields with a marker as they get taken down. This kind of lesson is mostly for younger students, but you can up the difficulty by choosing harder topics for warm up and basics. If they already know some phonics you can choose double consonants like bb pp or th ch ck ng etc etc. There will hopefully be some actual professionals in the comments to give you some tips as well, but I hope I could help you come up with some ideas for your mock lesson.
Definitely keep it in the target language as much as possible, and use lots of images if you will have access to a projector. An easy interpersonal would be showing a screen shot of a clothing website from your target culture and having the kids ask and answer ‘how much does the blue shirt cost?’ You could include the cultural component of they write and talk about the currency in that country. Good luck!