Course curriculum

    1. Zoom link

    2. Some housekeeping ... and choosing your coursebook

    1. Coursebooks Intro

    2. Assessing how much time you have for the coursebook

    3. Problem #1: I don't cover as much as I want

    4. Completing the coursebook = completing the level

    5. Assessing content and level of your coursebook

    6. Language and learning

    7. Problem #2: students don't make the progress I want

    8. Discussion and tasks

    1. The desire for photocopies and preparation: care and guilt

    2. Some further issues with coursebooks and two common designs

    3. Two mindsets and adding value

    4. Task and Discussion points

    1. Intro and outline: adding and supporting speaking

    2. Questions about speaking

    3. Recognising all the opportunities for speaking and the affordances they give

    4. Exploiting affordances and covering grammar

    5. From planning to classroom practice

    6. Problem #7: The speaking task fails

    7. Task and Discussion points

    1. Supporting speaking through vocabulary: Introduction and outline

    2. My vocabulary teaching

    3. The Problem of Lexical Sets

    4. Supporting speaking: choosing the right words

    5. Plan better: examples models and patterns

    6. Thinking about the questions we ask

    7. Plan better questions: exploring co-text

    8. Plan better questions: exploring other aspects of word knowledge

    9. Adding speaking: personal questions based on vocab

    10. Tasks and points for discussion

    1. Intro and outline: Texts and purpose

    2. Assessing the texts in a coursebook

    3. Plan better: Increase interest and engagement through speaking tasks

    4. Plan quicker: simple tasks to focus on language

    5. Plan better: integrating new tasks with the coursebook

    6. Task and points for discussion

About this course

  • £160.00
  • 48 lessons
  • 5.5 hours of video content

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