Tai lieu tap huan

Working with a coursebook/ textbook... Factors affecting how teachers use a coursebook  Institutional policy... What a coursebook cannot provide Your specific learners’ interests & pe

Working with a

coursebook/

textbook

Aims of coursebooks

Coursebooks are written:

and guidance and the control of a

well-organized syllabus;

materials to work from

Factors affecting how teachers use a

coursebook

 Institutional policy

What a coursebook can offer

similar ways

What a coursebook cannot provide

 Your specific learners’ interests &

personalities

Using a coursebook

1 Main areas of grammar, function, vocabulary or phonology?

2 Things might do in this lesson (S, L, R, W, T)?

3 Any activities you would categorize as ‘games’ or

‘game-like’?

4 Any challenge to learners in each activity?

5 Any activities relate the language to true personal

information about learners?

6 Divide activities into ‘teacher does a lot’; ‘teacher does some

things’; ‘teacher does very little’ Visualize yourself as

teacher.

7 Possible classroom procedure (how to exploit)?

8 Any parts you might omit? Any parts you need to plan

carefully if learners are shy?

9 Any thing you want to add? Why?

How to adapt the coursebook

relevant to the learners’ interests and

needs

How to adapt the coursebook

needs

or supplementary material

interesting or familiar for your learners.

Adapting the coursebook

Look at the following page (p.20) in Tieng Anh 9 and discuss what the problem is

2 Work with a partner Imagine you and your partner are visiting Ho Chi Minh City Ask and answer questions about the things you have done Use the present perfect tense of the verbs in the box.

do visit see go eat

Activities and lessons

to be able to prepare, set up and run a single classroom activity, e.g a game or a communication task or a

discussion.

1 pre-activity

2 set up the activity

3 run the activity

4 close the activity

- If the activity is complex and involves more than one step, repeat points 2,3 and 4 for subsequent steps.

5 post-activity