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Critical analysis of recent English textbooks Petra Devers, Minke Van Hoof
Critical analysis of recent English textbooks
Petra Devers, Minke Van Hoof
Grammar
•Adverbs of frequency
•Family – Possessive
•Present simple
•Past continuous
•Pictures of English tenses
Vocabulary
•Vocabulary and pronunciation
•Everyday English:Directions
•Daily activities
•Food
•Time
Culture•Postcards from London•The UK quiz•Megalopolis•General knowledge quiz•Murder most horrid
Others
•Inventors
•Me, myself and I, Zodiac signs
•A game for global revision language.
•Human rights
•Amazing stories
Sources
1. Pictures of English Tenses
2. New Snapshot Starter + Elementary
3. New Headway Elementary + Pre-Intermediate + New Intermediate
4. Inside Out Pre-Intermediate
5. Transit Elementary + Pre-Intermediate
Extra
Stairway to English 2
+
•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
•HeadwayEvery 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.
•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.
Grammar
New Snapshot Starter
p 67
Adverbs of frequency
Use?
Development stage – Integration
When?
How?
In pairs
New Snapshot starter
p 37
Family- Possessive
Use?
When?
How?
Development stage – Integration
Individual
Present Simple
New Headway Elementary
P 20-21
Use?
How?
When?
Initial stage
Teacher reads about these people or the pupils read out loud.
(Transparency)
Past continuous
New Headway Pre-intermediate
p24-25
Use?
When?
How?
Development stage – Integration
Individual or in pairsCorrection: read out loud.
Pictures of English tenses
Pictures of English Tensesentire book
Use?
When?
How?
Initial stage
Development stage –
Presentation-Integration
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
Vocabulary and pronunciation.
New Headway Elementary
p88
Use?
When?
How?
Development stage – Integration
Individual
Correction: Reading!
Tongue twisters -->in turns.
Everyday English
Directions
New Headway Pre-Intermediate
p53
Use?
When?
How?
Development stage – Integration
Roleplay
Daily activities
New SnapshotStarter
p66
Use?
When?
How?
Initial stage
Development stage – Integration
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?
How?
Initial stage
Development stage –
Presentation - Integration
Transparency
Individual – competition?!
In pairs
Time
Transit Elementary
p 43
Use?
When?
How?
Initial stage
Development stage – Integration
Transparency
In pairs
Culture
Postcards from London
New Snapshot starter
p62
Use?
When?
How?
Development stage – Integration
Evaluation
Individual – in pairs
Quiz?!
The UK quiz
New Snapshot starter
p34
Use?
When?
How?
Initial stage
Quiz
Megalopolis
New headwayPre-Intermediatep74-75
Use?
When?
How?
Development stage –
Presentation - Integration
IndividualCorner workGroupwork
General knowledge quiz New Headway Elementaryp98-99
Use?
When?
How?
Initial stage
Link with grammar: questions
Quiz
Murder most horrid Transit Pre-Intermediate
p84-85
Use?When?
How?
Initial stage
Development stage –
Presentation - Integration
Video : Fragment BlackadderIn pairs reading / puzzle
Groupwork, roleplay, make a little play
Others
Inventors
New headwayElementary
p62
Use?
When?
How?
Development stage –
Presentation - Integration
Individual, in pairs
CombinationIn group – presentation to the class
Me, myself and I, Zodiac signs
Transit, Pre-Intermediate
P10,11,12
Use?
When?
How?
Initial stage
Development stage –
Presentation - Integration
Discussion in class
In pairs
Use?
A game for global revision language.
Inside outPre-Intermediatep122-123
When?
How?
Evaluation
Game – in small groups
Human rights
TransitPre-Intermediate
P44,…
Use?
When?
How?
Development stage –
Presentation - Integration
In pairs,
Discussion in class
Amazing stories
Transit Elementary
P118-119
Use?
When?
How?
Initial stage
Development stage –
Presentation - Integration
Transparency
Memory exercise 3
Individual, in pairs
