I hope you’re doing well. My name is Sabo Masih. And. I’m an. EOT student.

So I’m here to present to you a topic you know which is ineffective. Use, of
course, books at school. And. This will be a critical review of a certain book
which is Oxford English Complete Lines.

So the first thing that I will do is to try to just to to to to define what what those
books are. And. And also I will be you know as this is a is a critical review of a
second book. OK, which is going to help. Us understand. The main. Question
of my presentation here. And.

You know so far I should tell you that the main question of my presentation
that I will be trying to answer will be you know how you know will be about the
the, the ineffective use of course books. You know, by teachers, which was
revealed in a case study in a case study at secondary school.

I mean it, Francis, my younger secondary school. So I will be, you know,
presenting. I will be trying to answer this question. You know, teachers at that
school, they've been using the course books ineffectively. So. And for that I'll
be making, I'll be, I'll be making use of a second course book, so you know,
describing the characteristics of it. And. You know.

I get and and. And after that I. Will be, you know, pointing out the advantages
of using the course book, of course. And you? Know the the next part will be
about you know the weaknesses of so the points that I think the teachers
should take into account when using the course books, which would basically
be about the weaknesses of, you know, using a certain course book. And.

The last part will be about the you know will be about recommendation and
basically it's sort of recommendations for teachers you know on how to use
course books in in the best possible way. So basically, you know this, my

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presentation will be divided up in 4 four parts as I mentioned here. So yes,
and the first part is let's understand what course books are.

When we talk about course books, we're basically talking about teaching
materials, right? And this? Teaching materials. They can be in form of
textbooks or workbooks. And. You know. One of the things that. I can say
about whose books is that they help us structure our lessons, our teaching,
our our, our, our lessons, I can say. And.

They give us a sense of a curriculum, you know, all syllabus for, for for us to
to to guide. So in the course books for example. We find. Lessons We find, as
I said, the syllables we find, the exercise, the content, and how it is organized
in a way that will somehow, you know, structure. Our lessons? And. You
know, I should say help us learn.

I mean help the students learn systematically or in a systematic manner. So

now as I said, for the, for the, for the, for the presentation, I use the, you
know, a workbook, which is, I mean a textbook, which is English, Oxford
English. So basically the book is roughly of 2020 pages. Sorry. 2. 200 pages
and it is divided. Up in 10 units. And. Each of these units. Support exercise I
mean.

Lessons in the ranging from one up to to to seven or six so. And. One thing to
notice is that most of these post books, they have they they they they
emphasize the grammar, the grammar aspect of it. And. One thing to point
out here about this is that they have for example. The less in the lessons you
know, you find. You know the the topics. For example, Comparative
sentences I.

Mean comparative. And superlative as a topic, present continuous. And. You

know, adverbs. So we see that these books, most of them, they have this

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idea of, you know, grammar. They emphasize grammar. So in a very, in a
very same, you know, in a very appeased way I could, I could say, I'll try to
talk about some advantages first.

The first one I can mention is about the the, the functional, the framework or
the syllabus. As I said, OK, the books give us the syllabus in order for us to
have a sense of progress, as one of the authors point out, you know who, by
the way, who was by the name of Noonan. So he points out that the books,
the course books, help us in having a sense of progress, for example, moving
from one lesson up to the other.

So. And the next. Part is the next point of of the next. The next positive point
is the post books themselves. They they help us in. For example the the texts
right and the I can say the content. The text. And the. You know the text. The.
The. Text and the the. The illustrations that I that's what I wanted to say. So
they have the illustrations looks we could which can help teachers you know
meet their goals in the text.

For example in case of a tea over of busy teachers. So this can help you
know, you know. Find for. For example, those teachers that wouldn't have a
way of making the test on their own, so it can help in that way. And. The last.
Part, the last, the last part about the positive you know aspects of course
books and the decision you know have have used is that the course book
itself, it's aligned with the curriculum.

We know that you know in a formal education it's very important to to know
our goals. You know, to know where we are, you know to to know what we
we are doing in terms of the goals and the objectives. So because this book
has got these units.

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Advantages First, the first one I can mention is about the the the functional,
the framework or the syllabus. As I said, OK, the books give us the syllabus in
order for us to have a sense of progress, as one of the authors point out, you
know who, by the way, who goes by the name of Noonan. So he points out
that the books, the course books help us in having a sense of progress.

For example moving from one lesson up to the other. So and the next part is
the next point of of the next. The next positive point is they post books
themselves. They they help us in for example the the texts, right? And the I
can say the content, the text and the you know the text the the text and the
the the illustrations that I that's what I wanted to say.

So they have illustrations which can help teachers you know meet their goals
in the text. For example in case of a of of busy teachers. So this can help you
know, you know find for for example those teachers that wouldn't have a way
of making the test on their own. So it can help in that way.

And the last part, the last, the last part about the positive you know aspects of
course books and the decision you know have have used is that the course
book itself it's aligned with the curriculum. We know that you know in a formal
education it's very important to to know our goals, you know to know where
we are, you know to to know what we we are doing in terms of the goals and
the objectives. So because this book has got these units so Page 1 of 2

we can have a sense of goals and objectives which are aligned with the
curriculum. So now I will be talking about the the second point, the Third
Point, sorry, which is the the witnesses I can say and something which
teachers have to take into account.

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So here is where I try to answer the the, the, you know, the point that
teachers have been using the books ineffectively. And I also want to mention
that one of the things that justifies this this question that I raised here.

I mean, teachers should be able to analyze and assess the post books and
be able to, you know, make necessary changes in order to meet their
objectives. But right now, as I will be talking about, this is a point I'll be
mentioning later.

So the first thing is the first thing about the weaknesses. It has to do with you
know the I can, I can say the the, the, the lack of functional, functional
framework. What is basically functional framework? When I talk about
functional framework I'm talking about how we learn the language.

For example, one of the objectives that we have when we learn the language
is to be able to communicate. So because the book has an over emphasis on
grammar, it makes it difficult for teachers. Sorry.

You know teachers do not understand the fact that it can be very difficult for
students you know to you know develop speaking skills and be able to
communicate because the book lacks the book lacks functional activities.

And again the over the over emphasis on on on on ground which is

something teachers have not been able to you know to to to pinpoint is that
you know there is no free production. You know in those in most of those
folks there's no for example activities like information care which help you
know you know the students to develop their speaking skill.

So, and the second point about the weaknesses is that you know these books
in terms of skill. For example, when I talk about writing, it only gives for
example, composition activities without prompted language, you know,
without prompted prompted expressions.

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I can say old expressions that can give aid in the students in writing the Vis,
you know their composition. So in terms of listening, the problem has to do
with you know teachers for example, one of the things which was noticed that
teachers they they they rely on you know reading for students to listen
making it you know ineffective in in in in in many ways.

So liking this you know for example audio cassettes and I mean CDs. So
that's one of the point. Now the other point about, for example about you
know about reading, that's that's why I want to come is, is that most of these
books, most of these books do not contain an appropriate language for the
lenders.

We do not have an appropriate language in terms of register. The register

comes in high and therefore it makes it very difficult for for students, for grade
nine student. I should have pointed out this to cope with the level of of of of
you know, of register thinking.

So having said that, now I will bring up, I'll bring, I'll, I'll come up, I'll bring up
the, the, the, the, the general recommendations about how can teachers use
the whole effectively. So the first thing is we should. The first thing is a
realization that the teacher should, should, should, should reach which is they
have to perceive.

Books not only has a means of always is, it is it is the only way to meet their
objectives. So they should not understand book has the only way they can
achieve or they can meet their objectives because according to according to
to cunning Cunningsworth.

She pointed. She points out that you know, the book said sorry, all right, not
Cunningsworth, all right. He points out that the books have a limited have a

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limited role in the learning and teaching process. So we should, they should
not view only the book has a means of, you know, achieving all the.

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