Coursebook

Textbook reflection

 

Name of the book: Get set for English

Year: 2004

Grade: 6

Textbook reflection

The objectives in the book are explicitly laid out in an introduction. Also you can see the names of the units and what the students are going to see. With detail about structures and expressions required in each unit. Besides in each activity have different icons, with the name and an image, for example, for listen activity has an image of headphones. In terms of topics, the text book has very interesting units. Each unit has a presentation of the topic for example a group work, a reading, a listening, a practice part. That means the course book has a practice of the four skills. Some activities show the kind of activity to do through an acronym DIY (do it yourself, and at the end of each unit has a let´s check the progress. In that at the end you can find a self evaluation, were students have to tick what they can do and with what grade of difficulty.  

The pages are colorful, has a simple and good vocabulary for that grade. You can note it that the instructions are easy and clear. It uses a lot of images with the name on it, so the students can associated the name with the picture. Also you can find plenty of authentic language and good explanations, about the topics and the activities.  It is not a heavy text and at the end has a dominoes were the students can cut it and play. These dominoes have imagines with the vocabulary of the action I am not sure if with the book learners are encourage to develop their own learning strategies.