How to use textbooks

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGESFor teachers:  Provide consistent syllabus, well-chosen vocabulary, language exposure For students:  Reassuring: preparation and review of lessons  Providing v

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

For teachers:

 Provide consistent syllabus,

well-chosen vocabulary,

language exposure

For students:

 Reassuring: preparation and

review of lessons

 Providing visualization

 Not always appropriate for teacher and learners

 Boring, stifling

Replacing

Adding

Adapting

Omitting – not use a lesson from textbook (use ‘pick-and-choose’ approach instead)

Replacing – use teacher’s own materials dealing with the same language or topic.

Adding – for more motivated and

engaging activities with the language or topic.

Adapting – use the same basic materials in another way

What we can do with a static collection of

words:

Personal engagement: focus on meanings

Discussion +guiding questions

• Which words have a positive meaning? Which words have negative meaning?

• List 5 favorite words from the list

What we can do with a static collection of words:

Word study: focus on pronunciation, word formation, word combination

Elicitation

• Make a list of words which are stressed on first, second, and third syllable

• How many adjectives can be changed into verbs?

• Make new words by matching the ones in the list

Setting a situation:

A customer complained to the head office of “The Old Trusted Bank”

The bank manager was wearing jeans and a

sweatshirt when meeting customers.

Why did he do it? What’s wrong with it?

The students write telephone dialogues and then act them out.