f) Literature in the Language Classroom
g) Words in Their Places: Graded Cloze Texts and Comprehension Exercises.
Teacher’s comments.
72. I’ve
been teaching for a long time, but I really need some fresh ideas for teaching grammar to low-level learners.
73. I’m not sure how to use websites for teaching English.
74. I’m looking for activities to help my teenage elementary learners develop their fluency, but I haven’t got time to do a lot of extra preparation.
75. I’m interested in using poems and short stories in my language classes.
76. I want a book that explains pronunciation and gives me some ideas about how to teach it.
77. My learners need lots of extra
tasks for reading practice, but I haven’t got time to search for supplementary materials at the right level.
For questions
78-80, match the comments from teachers about their coursebook with the appropriate strategies
for adapting materials listed A-D.
Strategies.
a) Shorten the material
b) Reorder the material
c) Change the level of the material
d) Change the form of the task
Comments from teachers.
78. All the units in
the book begin with pairwork, but my learners are not very confident about speaking.
79. The exercises in the book are quite good, but they are a bit too simple.
80. All the reading tasks in the book are very similar – my learners need more variety.
