Critical analysis of recent English textbooks Petra Devers

Critical analysis of recent English textbooks Petra Devers, Minke Van Hoof

Grammar Vocabulary • Adverbs of frequency • Vocabulary and pronunciation • Family – Possessive • Everyday English: Directions • Present simple • Past continuous • Pictures of English tenses • Daily activities • Food • Time 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 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 • 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.

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

Stairway to English 2 Why? Map inside cover + P 53 talking about sport.

Grammar

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 p 24 -25

Use? When? Development stage – Integration How? Individual or in pairs Correction: read out loud.

Pictures of English tenses Pictures of English Tenses entire 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

Vocabulary and pronunciation. New Headway Elementary p 88

Use? When? Development stage – Integration How? Individual Correction: Reading! Tongue twisters -->in turns.

Everyday English Directions New Headway Pre-Intermediate p 53

Use? When? Development stage – Integration How? Roleplay

Daily activities New Snapshot Starter p 66

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 p 26

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

Culture

Postcards from London New Snapshot starter p 62

Use? When? Development stage – Integration Evaluation How? Individual – in pairs Quiz? !

The UK quiz New Snapshot starter p 34

Use? When? Initial stage How? Quiz

Megalopolis New headway Pre-Intermediate p 74 -75

Use? When? Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Individual Corner work Groupwork

General knowledge quiz New Headway Elementary p 98 -99 Use? When? Initial stage Link with grammar: questions How? Quiz

Murder most horrid Transit Pre-Intermediate p 84 -85 Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Video : Fragment Blackadder In pairs reading / puzzle Groupwork, roleplay, make a little play

Others

Inventors New headway Elementary p 62

Use? When? Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Individual, in pairs Combination In group – presentation to the class

Me, myself and I, Zodiac signs Transit, Pre-Intermediate P 10, 11, 12

Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Discussion in class In pairs

A game for global revision language. Use? When? Inside out Pre-Intermediate p 122 -123 Evaluation How? Game – in small groups

Human rights Transit Pre-Intermediate P 44, …

Use? When? Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? In pairs, Discussion in class

Amazing stories Transit Elementary P 118 -119

Use? When? Initial stage Development stage – Presentation - Integration How? Transparency Memory exercise 3 Individual, in pairs