Group 3: Trần Thị Hiền Nguyễn Thu Tuyết ASSIGNMENT 1 TEXTBOOK EVALUATION Material evaluated: Tiếng Anh 10 (Basic) Aspects evaluated: Appearance, interesting and skills. I. Appearance 1. Cover: Well-designed: quite eye-catching • Front side: clear title (printed in big size with white color), suitable and real picture • Back side: light color but unattractive information -> should give some tips to learn English or some English saying, idiom 2. Design. Clearly designed to follow a. Introduction: simple, concise -> orient for students to have overview. b. Book map: prepare what is coming and review what have done easily • Light colors: clear and eye-soothing, • Vertical: unit tittles with page numbers -> students look for pages easily • Horizontal: five rows for R,S,L,W,L => Easy to seek for information -> Design different background colors for five rows c. Unit design • Title: large size, red color, bolded, unit’s beginning left side • Main point: different colors and forms letters, clear size (easy to read) d. Glossary: list of new words for each unit -> students look up and practice easily and quickly • Printing: good quality 3. Illustration: Pictures: two types - Drawings: colorful, beautiful, simple, accurate ->suitable for topics and age of learner.(pages:15,16,26,35,68) - Photographs: colorful, taken from real life, interesting and beautiful (pages: 12, 82,142)  Make the information more realistic, more authentic. 4. Colors - A wide variety of colors are used in the book. - Lively colors - Used effectively →The book’s appearance is appealing and attractive II. Interesting -There are no games and songs in the units - Language focus exercises are too mechanical and non- communicative→ students are boring Ex: Unit 9: Undersea world Conditional sentence type 2: Exercise3: Put the verbs into the correct forms 1. They would be rather offended if I didn’t go to see them. ( not/go ) 2. If you exercised more, you would feel better. ( feel ) 3. If I were offered the job, I think I ________it. ( take ) 4. I’m sure Amy will lend you the money, I’d be very surprised if she_________. (refuse) 5. If I sold my car, I_________ much money for it. (not/get) 6. A lot of people would be out of work if the factory__________ ( close down) -There are fewer interesting topics than uninteresting ones. interesting topics uninteresting topics Unit 1: A day in the life of… Unit 4: Special education Unit 5: Technology and you Unit 8: The story of my village Unit 12: Music Unit 13: Films and cinema Unit 14: The World Cup Unit 2: School talks Unit 3: People’s background Unit 6: An excursion Unit 7:The mass media Unit 9: Undersea world Unit 10: Conservation Unit 11: National parks Unit 15: Cities Unit 16: Historical Places - Some topics are interesting because it suits the hobby, psychology of the Vietnamese students at 10 th grade. Ex: Units Reasons Unit 1: A day in the life of… Because it is the first unit, it can help students to orient by make timetable and the ways of saving time. Unit 4: Special education It introduces the Braille Alphabet and has high education. Unit 12: Music Music is popular with young people so that student can talk about their favorite idols and songs. -There are some uninteresting topics Units Reason Unit 2: School talks It is too accustom to students to talk because they know each other Unit 7: The mass media It is too dull. Ex: the reading part only list programmers -Related – to – life- topics The units don’t relate students’ life. Unit 10: Conservation: This unit shows the general information about conservational theory → should give the ways of limiting traffic jams and preventing floods and storms. → Tiếng Anh 10(basic) is not interesting III. Skills * This book covers all the skills but it is not suitable in the way we want to teach to students o Process of learning 4 skills + In the textbook Reading – Speaking – Listening – Writing → Receptive- Productive- Receptive- Productive + In our way Listening- Speaking- Reading- Writing → Receptive- Productive- Receptive- Productive Both of ways are from reception to production. We chose the order of the skills because the first listening part will give pronunciation, intonation, stress and vocabulary. Next, in the speaking part students can practice more and make monologue and dialogue by themselves. Then, they can read the available passages easily. Finally, by basing information in the previous part they can write better → Our order of the skills is suitable for learning the second language o The connection of the skills - The skills focus on the topics Ex: Unit 1 Reading part is about Mr .Vy and Mrs .Tuyet’s daily routines Speaking part talks about Quan’s weekly timetable Listening part mention Mr. Lam’s morning activities Writing part ask students to give stages of a narrative and write a narrative about a hotel fire - Each unit has some sub- skills with a variety of activities Ex: Reading Scanning for specific information (Unit 1, 8) Reading for exact information (Unit 2) Guessing meaning in context (Unit 1, 3, 5) (Multiple choice, gap filling, matching, true and false) - Skills are integrated to each other (Ex: reading- speaking integration and listening- speaking integration) * Matching the institution’s syllabus Theme: You and me Skills Textbook Program framwork Speaking Role- playing Expressing likes and dislikes Listening Listening for general or specific information Reading - Guessing meaning in context - Scanning for specific information - Reading for exact information - Extensive reading - Intensive reading Reading for general or specific in formation Writing Writing a narrative Filling in a form Write a letter of complaint There are some sub- skills which are mentioned in the institution’s syllabus → In conclusion, this book isn’t good enough in learning language skills for students Evaluation Criteria Criteria Description Knowledge & application Students demonstrate a good knowledge of ELT and a successful application of theory to practice. Creativity Students demonstrate a degree of creativity in the application. Clarity The assignment is clear and understandable. Criteria Score 1 2 3 4 5 Knowledge & Application  Creativity  Clarity  Total score: 12/15 . Unit 2: School talks Unit 3: People’s background Unit 6: An excursion Unit 7: The mass media Unit 9: Undersea world Unit 10: Conservation Unit 11: National. talks It is too accustom to students to talk because they know each other Unit 7: The mass media It is too dull. Ex: the reading part only list programmers