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Critical analysis of recent English textbooks. Petra Devers, Minke Van Hoof. Vocabulary Vocabulary and pronunciation Everyday English: Directions Daily activities Food Time. Grammar Adverbs of frequency Family – Possessive Present simple Past continuous Pictures of English tenses.
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Critical analysis of recent English textbooks Petra Devers, Minke Van Hoof
Vocabulary • Vocabulary and pronunciation • Everyday English:Directions • Daily activities • Food • Time • Grammar • Adverbs of frequency • Family – Possessive • Present simple • Past continuous • Pictures of English tenses • Others • Inventors • Me, myself and I, Zodiac signs • A game for global revision language. • Human rights • Amazing stories • Culture • Postcards from London • The UK quiz • Megalopolis • General knowledge quiz • Murder most horrid
Sources • Pictures of English Tenses • New Snapshot Starter + Elementary • New Headway Elementary + Pre-Intermediate + New Intermediate • Inside Out Pre-Intermediate • Transit Elementary + Pre-Intermediate Extra Stairway to English 2
+ • Headway • Every day English sections,brings abstract words closer to the pupil. • Pictures of English Tenses: • Easy drawings to copy and use in class on BB, transparency or worksheets. • Inside out – Pre-Intermediate: • Nice layout and pictures. • Transit : • Nice pictures, colours and closely linked to pupil’s world. • New Snapshot: • Book comes with a cassette pronounciation
- • Snapshot Elementary: • Chaotic layout, no distinction grammar/voc. • New New Headway Intermediate: • Grids in TB that should be in WB • Headway: • Layout over-full
Stairway to English 2 Why? Map inside cover + P53 talking about sport.
Adverbs of frequency New Snapshot Starter p 67
Use? When? Development stage – Integration How? In pairs
Family- Possessive New Snapshot starter p 37
Use? When? Development stage – Integration How? Individual
Present Simple New Headway Elementary P 20-21
Use? When? Initial stage How? Teacher reads about these people or the pupils read out loud. (Transparency)
Past continuous New Headway Pre-intermediate p24-25
Use? When? Development stage – Integration How? Individual or in pairsCorrection: read out loud.
Pictures of English tenses Pictures of English Tensesentire book
Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Presentation-Integration How? Show pictures and ask pupils what the people in the picture are doing. Let the pupils write a story about the people in the pictures. Individual or in pairs.
Vocabulary and pronunciation. New Headway Elementary p88
Use? When? Development stage – Integration How? Individual Correction: Reading! Tongue twisters -->in turns.
Everyday English Directions New Headway Pre-Intermediate p53
Use? When? Development stage – Integration How? Roleplay
Daily activities New SnapshotStarter p66
Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Integration How? Transparency, Teacher asks the pupils questions about their daily acitvities. Pupils write about their day individually. In pairs: Pupils ask each other questions.
Food Snapshot Elementary p26
Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Transparency Individual – competition?! In pairs
Time Transit Elementary p 43
Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Integration How? Transparency In pairs
Postcards from London New Snapshot starter p62
Use? When? Development stage – Integration Evaluation How? Individual – in pairs Quiz?!
The UK quiz New Snapshot starter p34
Use? When? Initial stage How? Quiz
Megalopolis New headwayPre-Intermediatep74-75
Use? When? Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? IndividualCorner workGroupwork
General knowledge quiz New Headway Elementaryp98-99 Use? When? Initial stage Link with grammar: questions How? Quiz
Murder most horrid Transit Pre-Intermediate p84-85 Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Video : Fragment BlackadderIn pairs reading / puzzle Groupwork, roleplay, make a little play
Inventors New headwayElementary p62
Use? When? Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Individual, in pairs CombinationIn group – presentation to the class
Me, myself and I, Zodiac signs Transit, Pre-Intermediate P10,11,12
Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Discussion in class In pairs
A game for global revision language. Inside outPre-Intermediatep122-123 Use? When? Evaluation How? Game – in small groups
Human rights TransitPre-Intermediate P44,…
Use? When? Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? In pairs, Discussion in class
Amazing stories Transit Elementary P118-119
Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Transparency Memory exercise 3 Individual, in pairs