HOW TO USE COURSEBOOKS
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Complete these sentences.
When I learnt a foreign language at
school the coursebook ………
The best kind of coursebooks for a
language students ……………………….
If I wrote a coursebook,
I…………………………..
When I plan a lesson and open the
relevant page of the coursebook I use, I usually consider
…………….…………………………….
I think you usually consider whether
language is at the right level, whether the topic/content is suitable for the
students, whether the activities satisfy you and are the right ones for your
specific and global aims and, finally, you would take into account whether the
sequencing of the lesson is logical.
If all these issues are appropriate, you
will want to go ahead and use the coursebook, at least for that certain lesson.
But, if you believe there is something wrong with the coursebook, you have to
decide what to do next.
Four alternatives have been suggested
for a teacher who is not satisfied with the lesson his/her coursebook offers:
1) Omission:...
2) Replacement:
…
3) Addition:
…
4) Adaptation: …
