ADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES

For teachers:

 Not always appropriate for

teacher and learners

 Boring, stifling

 Provide consistent syllabus, well-chosen vocabulary, language exposure

For students:

 Reassuring: preparation and

review of lessons

 Providing visualization

 Omitting

 Replacing

 Adding

 Adapting

 Omitting – not use a lesson from textbook

(use ‘pick-and-choose’ approach instead)

 Replacing – use teacher’s own materials

dealing with the same language or topic.

 Adding – for more motivated and

engaging activities with the language or

topic.

 Adapting – use the same basic materials in

another way

What we can do with a static collection of words:

 Personal engagement: focus on meanings

Discussion +guiding questions

• Which words have a positive meaning? Which words have

negative meaning?

• List 5 favorite words from the list

What we can do with a static collection of words:

 Word study: focus on pronunciation, word

formation, word combination Elicitation

• Make a list of words which are stressed on first, second, and

third syllable

• How many adjectives can be changed into verbs?

• Make new words by matching the ones in the list.

Setting a situation:

A customer complained to the head office of “The Old Trusted Bank”

The bank manager was wearing jeans and a sweatshirt when meeting customers.

Why did he do it? What’s wrong with it?

The students write telephone dialogues and then act them out.