Supplementary Materials

The silent way

Presentation of Caleb Gattegno's Silent Way

The Silent Way is the pedagogical approach created by Gattegno for teaching foreign languages; the objective is for students to work as autonomous language learners.

An approach that respects the learner

The very name Silent Way highlights the fact that the teacher speaks very little during the lesson; the teacher's role is not to transmit knowledge, to act as a model nor to provide answers. However, the teacher intervenes, if necessary, to draw the learners' attention to the way they are going about the act of learning.

Relying on the students' mental capacities, their experience and acquired skills, the teacher endeavors to ensure that they make their own discoveries, gain their own insights into the functioning of the language, establish their own criteria for rightness, acquire a know-how and above all, become autonomous as learners and speakers of the language.

Because Silent Way teachers speak so little, they are free to observe their students carefully and be available to them.

The teacher remains the indispensable guarantor of the correctness of the language (the sounds, prosody, vocabulary, syntax, register...) and of its appropriateness to the situation.

Supplementary Materials

Worksheets

Supplementary Materials means everything we use in addition to the course book.

We have different kinds or types of supplementary materials: -          worksheets

-          flash cards

-          realia

-          movie

-          audio

-          extensive readers

-          external materials

-          games

-          pictures

-          PowerPoint (computers)

-          Posters -       Newspaper and magazine

-          Work cards

Reasons for using supplementary materials:

If we have a good course book, why do we need these supplementary materials?

-          to make the lesson more interesting

-          variety

-          helpful for heterogeneous classes

-          sometimes teachers find the book is no suitable for the class’s level

-          sometimes the book doesn’t include so many topics that may interest the students

Worksheets

When we prepare worksheet, we have to use a check list for making a good worksheet.

The Check List: -     meaningful title

-          note order of activities

-          example

-          instruction

-          relating to heterogeneity

-          format

-          graded levels of difficulty

-          note content

-          not too dense

-          place for pupil’s name

-          thoughtful use of font size, type, bold, underlyining

SUCCESS COMMUNICATING IN ENGLISH AND BONUS PRACTICE BOOK 2A

I think that the coursebook contains a very high score according to the objectives  explicitly laid out  in an introduction and implemented in the material with a  following structure, communication, and vocabulary, asking for and giving, describing, expressing, identifying, talking about .Pronunciation, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, grammar, verbs,  nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs,  prepositions, questions and contractions. present progressive, possessives, simple present, etc.

It has a high score according to approach educationally and socially acceptable to target community.

The coursebook contains very high score with clear attractive layout with print easy to read capturing students interest with super visuals and contemporary content with interesting  topics and with a lot of pictures.

It has a high score with appropriate visual materials with a lot of pictures, posters-22”x34”replicas of units openers put the focus on vocabulary, videos feature real people and events  in a tv-magazine formal.

The coursebook contains a very high score according to interesting topics and tasks, there are a lot of interesting topics and tasks like for example topics about downtown, bay park, discount center, celebrity sports day, ted’s garage with understanding humor, on the road, sea view motel, the construction site, at the beach ,etc.

It has a very high score in order to provide learning styles, interests, etc.so there are a lot of varied topics like community places, making appointments, ordering food, expressing thanks, places in garage, places in a business, health, etc.

It has a very high score according to clear instructions

It has a very high score according to a systematic coverage of syllabus, the coursebook contains a comprehensive list of content items(word, structure, topics) process items(tasks, methods).It’s ordered and it has explicit objectives.

It has a very high score according to the content , which the content clearly organized and graded. items are ordered, the components that are easier goes first.

It has a high core according to a periodic review and test sections.

It has  a low score according to plenty of authentic language.

I’m not sure about good pronunciation (?).

The coursebook contains a very high score according to good vocabulary explanation and practice which new vocabulary is the easiest  thing for students to handle, which students have to listen first, then read it, and after that make conversations.

It has a very high score according to good grammar presentation and practice.

The coursebook contains a very high score according to a fluency practice in all four skills.

It has a high score according to encourages learners to develop own learning strategies.

The coursebook contains a high score according to adequate guidance for the teacher.

It has a high score according to audio cassettes present every word in the textbooks including delightful readings of the bay city news.

It has a high score according to readily available locally.

Which categories in box 13.3 do you thing are most important? Does your coursebook cover these satisfactorily? Are there some that are neglected? Are these others that is spends too much time or space on in your opinion?

I think that the coursebook offer more practice than ordinary workbooks, conversations, vocabulary expansion, grammar reinforcement, critical thinking and writing exercises with a lot of reading comprehension, listening comprehension and practice, with a lot of activities, crossword puzzles, which gives students a nice opportunity to monitor students spoken and written work with clear attractive layout, interesting topics and tasks ,good vocabulary explanation and practice with objectives explicitly laid out in an introduction.

I think the most important categories are mixed skills communicative tasks listening, speaking ,reading and writing ,grammar explanations and practice.

However the coursebook cover this satisfactorily.

I thing that listening take so much time depending of the level of the students which the teacher sometimes has to repeat until the students understand.

I thing that the topics are in an appropriate level for which the topics are interesting and varied like listening and reading about downtown, food, bay park, clothes, identifying family members, describing places, reading for information, understanding humor, ordering food, making plans, days of the week, months of the year, role playing conversations, weekly routines, reading about discount center, sports, health, celebrity sports day, super stars, listening about garage, car repairs, traffic signs, vacations, places at the beach, etc.

CRITERIA FOR COURSEBOOK ASSESSMENT