EVERYDAY ENGLISH BOOK 1: TEACHERS’ MANUAL

A textbook, used appropriately, is a resource. This teachers’ manual points to the world of possibilities that lies within Everyday English (book 1 0. Part one  offers some general guidelines for managing learning (such as balancing practice with creativity, and individual with cooperative learning); and a quick overview of a variety of classroom activities. Part two details ideas for teaching individual lessons, along with additional material.

Particularly valuable are a chapter on Revision and a sample final  Test. Revision and a sample final Test. Revision is presented in  terms of activities for reawakening language that has been encountered. The modest test is an insightful example of  what expectations one day reasonably have about language learners’ abilities at the end of an initial course of this kind.

This manual, in conjunction with the textbook, should help the teacher understand the nature of language learning as (s)he teachers.