Let’s set the scene first. A well dressed representative from a prestigious publishing house comes to your school with a spring in his step and a tiger in his engine ready to sell you their latest course book series. Words like innovative, student-friendly and European framework are going to fly around aimlessly for the next ten minutes or so. There will...
What does PARSNIP stand for?
It’s an acronym for the following topics:
(no) Politics, Alcohol, Religion, Sex, Narcotics, –Isms, Pork.
Imagine real life without being able to enjoy any of the things mentioned above or not even being able to read and talk about them freely. Imagine you’re only allowed to read and talk about Marie Curie, the weather...
It is generally accepted that most of our students are never at the same readiness level. As is the fact that we can never rely on a coursebook to be used as a one-size-fits-all student course guide. So what do we do to save ourselves from getting stuck in a rut where you might have students that are just not interested in the topics of your coursebook...
ELT coursebook writers are professionals who create materials and resources for language teachers to use in their classes. They are responsible for designing and writing courses, lesson plans, exercises, and other materials that are used to teach English as a second or foreign language.
ELT coursebook writers come from a variety of backgrounds...
Let me share with you a brilliant lesson plan. It begins with the preliminary thinking which seems to be its background logic. Mobile phones, it goes, are increasingly part of everyday life around the world. If everyone in your class has a mobile phone (most over 11-year-olds do!), why not make use of them? But the principle of using a phone to “snap”...
Most teachers use a coursebook as the backbone of the course. More often than not, the coursebook provides the syllabus as well as the majority of the materials to be used in the classroom: usually accompanied by a number of related books and resources (for example, workbooks, learning companions, online reference and practice materials, tests, grammar...
Throughout my professional career, I have realized that coursebooks have always been an important, if not the most important tool in language learning. According to Richards (1998) for most teachers the textbook represents the main source of ideas for teaching. The usual attitude of most teachers is to focus their attention mainly on textbooks...
Holistic development includes 5 aspects: physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and spiritual. It derives from the Greek word «όλος» which means the “whole” and it incorporates the teaching practice within the physical, emotional, and psychological parts of a child. In this kind of learning process, the learner is in the center and the teacher...
As a child I was so happy when my parents had to buy me a new textbook when the new academic year was to start in the frontistirio I was going to. However, this was not the case for my parents. Now I assume that I was curious about finding what these books included as they were something new. I liked the images, the short stories and especially...
