Humanising the coursebook

1. Brainstorm ideas on the point of a high-quality course book. Recall the standards it must meet as well as your personal beliefs of a good course book. Build a mind-map and be ready to share.

2. What is “a humanistic coursebook”?

3. Scan the introduction. Were you close in your view of “a humanistic coursebook”?

Vocabulary Enrichment

capacity for learning comprehension activities / questions dimension diminishment durable engaging text facilitator global coursebooks humanistic approach ibid local coursebooks mediator peer prior to salient student-centered student-initiated activities syllabus to acknowledge to advocate

to allocate to appeal to to cater for to challenge to collaborate to devise exercises / activities to dramatize texts to foster durable learning to humanize to pool resources to recall and recount personal experiences to script to supplement to transmit knowledge to underestimate TPR activities unanimous under-achiever within a demanding time-limit

4. Make sure you can explain the following terms:

comprehension questions, facilitator, global course books, humanistic approach, kinesthetic activities, local course books, student-centered, syllabus, TPR.

5. Match the following definitions with the proper words:

Ability, capability……… Based on the assent or agreement of all……… Capable of withstanding wear or decay……… Conspicuous, prominent……… Latin: in the same place……… One of equal status with another……… One who fails to perform at an expected level of ability, especially in school……… Previous in time or order……… To present or regard in a dramatic or melodramatic manner; to adapt for presentation as a drama……… To tell the facts or details of: describe………

6. Odd one out:

1. To acknowledge, accede, acquiesce, concede, profess, reject.

2. To advocate, recommend, oppose, argue for, espouse, favour.

3. To allocate, assign, allot, retract, appropriate, designate.

4. To appeal, revolt, allure, charm, please, tempt.

5. To cater, provide, diminish, supply, furnish, provision.

6. To devise, revise, conceive, contrive, design, think up.

7. To diminish, decrease, cut, lessen, augment, weaken.

8. To facilitate, promote, further, obstruct, pave the way for, speed up.

9. To foster, promote, cultivate, nurture, inhibit, support.

10. To mediate, intervene, meditate, moderate, settle, step in.

11. To pool, combine, amalgamate, devise, merge, put together.

12. To supplement, add, augment, complement, retract, top up.