Critical analysis of recent English textbooks

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Critical analysis of recent English textbooks

• Petra Devers, Minke Van Hoof

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• Vocabulary
• Vocabulary and pronunciation
• Everyday EnglishDirections
• 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

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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
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• 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
  pupils world.
• New Snapshot
• Book comes with a cassette ? pronounciation

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• Snapshot Elementary
• Chaotic layout, no distinction grammar/voc.
• New New Headway Intermediate
• Grids in TB that should be in WB
• Headway
• Layout over-full

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Stairway to English 2
Why?
Map inside cover P53 talking about sport.
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Grammar
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Adverbs of frequency
New Snapshot Starter p 67
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Use?
When?
Development stage Integration
How?
In pairs
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Family- Possessive
New Snapshot starter p 37
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Use?
When?
Development stage Integration
How?
Individual
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Present Simple
New Headway Elementary P 20-21
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Use?
When?
Initial stage
How?
Teacher reads about these people or the pupils
read out loud. (Transparency)
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Past continuous
New Headway Pre-intermediate p24-25
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Use?
When?
Development stage Integration
How?
Individual or in pairsCorrection read out loud.
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Pictures of English tenses
Pictures of English Tensesentire book
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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.
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Vocabulary
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Vocabulary and pronunciation.
New Headway Elementary p88
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Use?
When?
Development stage Integration
How?
Individual Correction Reading! Tongue twisters
--gtin turns.
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Everyday English Directions
New Headway Pre-Intermediate p53
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Use?
When?
Development stage Integration
How?
Roleplay
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Daily activities
New SnapshotStarter p66
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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.
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Food
Snapshot Elementary p26
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Use?
When?
Initial stage Development stage Presentation -
Integration
How?
Transparency Individual competition?! In pairs
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Time
Transit Elementary p 43
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Use?
When?
Initial stage Development stage Integration
How?
Transparency In pairs
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Culture
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Postcards from London
New Snapshot starter p62
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Use?
When?
Development stage Integration Evaluation
How?
Individual in pairs Quiz?!
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The UK quiz
New Snapshot starter p34
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Use?
When?
Initial stage
How?
Quiz
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Megalopolis
New headwayPre-Intermediatep74-75
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Use?
When?
Development stage Presentation - Integration
How?
IndividualCorner workGroupwork
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(No Transcript)
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General knowledge quiz
New Headway Elementaryp98-99
Use?
When?
Initial stage Link with grammar questions
How?
Quiz
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(No Transcript)
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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
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Others
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Inventors
New headwayElementary p62
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Use?
When?
Development stage Presentation - Integration
How?
Individual, in pairs CombinationIn group
presentation to the class
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Me, myself and I, Zodiac signs
Transit, Pre-Intermediate P10,11,12
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Use?
When?
Initial stage Development stage Presentation -
Integration
How?
Discussion in class In pairs
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(No Transcript)
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A game for global revision language.
Inside outPre-Intermediatep122-123
Use?
When?
Evaluation
How?
Game in small groups
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Human rights
TransitPre-Intermediate P44,
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Use?
When?
Development stage Presentation - Integration
How?
In pairs, Discussion in class
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Amazing stories
Transit Elementary P118-119
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Use?
When?
Initial stage Development stage Presentation -
Integration
How?
Transparency Memory exercise 3 Individual, in
pairs
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(No Transcript)